"Clare Cox, Director of Communications"

My, my, I wonder how much her huge salary is and whether she'd be bothered one bit if she didn't get paid and had to work voluntarily like us.

Judging from what I've seen, and other commentators in the main stream press noted when the bullying issue of car bans came up recently, parents and grandparents don't smoke in cars with kids who are not victims and are quite capable of speaking out about anyhting they don't like these days - just try and stop 'em!

But then this sort of campaign is needed because you can't employ people and give 'em fat salaries and then expect them to do nothing about a problem that doesn't exist.

Would it not be more accurate to say that is pledge is a concoction of ASH ET AL, using the BHF as a front group? I have a suspicion that ASH's bosses in the Royal College of Physicians are beginning to find out that ASH is becoming universally recognised as a bunch of crooks, and are moving away. Notice that the call for plain packaging has come from the (fake) All Party Group....?

I notice in the BLF statement that this statement:

Research shows that just one cigarette in the car, even with the window open, creates a greater concentration of second-hand smoke than a whole evening’s smoking in a pub.

is attributed to ASH. By attributing it to ASH, the actual source is hidden from view. More subterfuge.

Its almost as if we have regressed 150 years - sign the pledge !! sign the pledge !! sign the pledge !!

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REtemperance.htm

Samer nutters pushing it , same foolish gullible people believing the nutters, same campaign, same old, same old!

These 'progressives' are getting desperate and increasingly absurd aren't they?

Quote Clair Cox : "Children have sent a strong message to their parents that they no longer want to endure a smoky car ride."

No they haven't. You just completely made that up.

My brother has two kids and they've never pestered him to sign a pledge for a smoke free car. You are just talking bollocks woman.

F*** it! I missed the message? When did my kids send it? Via post? e-mail? What? How? When?

Just asked my daughter if she'd like me to stop smoking in my car. Her response? "I couldn't care less".

I don't smoke in my mothers house, despite her saying it's ok.
I don't smoke in either of my sisters' houses unless there is someone else smoking in there already.
I don't smoke in my own house, nor let anyone else.

If the BLF are so concerned about kids lungs how about a pledge from parents not to park within 1/2 mile of a school to pick their kids up? How much crap is being pumped into how many lungs at 3 pm every day?

If they are really so concerned, why not petition for smoking to be outlawed?

People are happy for our money to prop up their taxes, but don't dare smoke near me. Two faced?

What a bunch of selfish ,pig-ignorant people you smokers are putting having a fag before your kid's health.

I wonder why those who are against this pledge do not use their energy to quit their lethal addiction, rather than go to the effort and post non-sensical comments on here.

@ nicola "you smokers" is a broad sweeping statement. This is very typical of someone intolerant of another group's way of life. Last I heard the UK was hailed for being a tolerant country, but when it comes to smokers there are many people that seem to feel there is no need for tolerance. Are all smokers 'selfish and pig-ignorant'? are there no 'selfish and pig-ignorant' non-smokers? We come in all shapes, sizes and colours, rather than tar everyone, target the specific comments that you find 'selfish and pig-ignorant' to either remove our ignorance and make us less selfish or so the 'perpetrator' might explain themselves.

@Giled Lil "addiction" look up the meaning. There is another side to it, some of us actually enjoy our habit and rather than being selfish, I'd say I was stubborn. I don't want to quit, because I enjoy it and the more people nag the less likely I am to even consider it. And I proffer the same invite to you as I did nicola, rather than paint with a broad brush, highlight the 'nonsensical' comments.

I trust both of you are tea-total as well? Although alcohol can be addictive, even a casual drinker can become a killer - FACT. I do have to ask why all this energy is put into restricting the rights of smokers (yes they have rights all the time it is a legal habit) and not a single ounce is put into making the drink drive limit 0mg/l. If I saw something like this, I might start believing the will is for health not the easy target.

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Well written Simon, thanks.

Simon, you just keep kidding yourself that you "enjoy" smoking, there's a fine line between enjoyment and relief but it's a line all the same. Did you enjoy your first cigarette? do you even remember most of those you smoke? You need to realise that you are a drug addict, at that point the line will become obvious. As for the comparison with alcohol, there is a safe level of consumption with alcohol, you cannot say the same for smoking.

I do enjoy this site, watching people making excuses for their behaviour while pretending that it's about personal freedom rather than addiction is interesting. If you could press a button and take your mindset back to just before that first cigarette, have no desire ever again, see smoking for what it is, save all that money, your health. Free yourself forever from that nagging "need" would you press it? Would you? (honestly now)..