According to a new survey by car supermarket Motorpoint, 67% of drivers wanted smokers to extinguish their cigarettes before getting behind the wheel.
In all, some 2,028 people took part in the week-long online study, which looked at smoking in cars - currently the subject of hot debate.
Professor Terence Stephenson, the new president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, has called for a complete end to smoking in cars with children.
It is already outlawed in all company cars and was recently included in the revised version of the Highway Code as a dangerous distraction (complete with a £60 on-the-spot fine).
Said David Shelton, Managing Director of Motorpoint: "It is clear from our poll that it is only a matter of time before smoking in cars follows the same route as mobile phones and drink driving, and becomes totally outlawed."
Posted on 14.07.2009
