Apparently, the British Medical Association is at it again. Today it's reported that they want the Government to ban smoking in cars due to the potentially harmful effects this can have on non-smoking passengers.
Why don't these idiots just demand that cars should be banned? After all, the vast amount of noxious fumes and chemicals spewed into our atmosphere every minute by the traffic on our roads must vastly outweigh anything produced by a smoker in one small car. What about banning all power stations and factories, aeroplanes and trains, power tools, tractors, anything that produces dust, alcohol, fatty foods, salt, sugar, loud music, bright lights etc., etc.? Any of these things may be deemed to cause pollution and or lead to illness or other medical conditions, or otherwise affect our environment in such a way as to be detrimental to ourselves or to others.
The NAZIs in the BMA are hell bent on saving us from ourselves and would have the Government spend a fortune on monitoring our every move. How a ban on smoking in cars could ever be properly enforced is anyones' guess; at present, the ban on using mobile telephones seems to be largely ignored, being caught speeding is probably a one-in-thousand chance and the ban on fox hunting is a joke; many other ridiculous laws designed to control our everyday behaviour are equally ineffective. These things cannot be policed and all should be wiped off of the statute book - laws that cannot be properly enforced do nothing but bring the law into disrepute.
Let the BMA, and even the Government, issue information leaflets and advice, but leave it to the individual to decide whether or not they follow that advice. There are far too many potential dangers in the world to ban them all, unless we really do want to live in Stalin's Russia or Hitler's Germany, with a secret policeman on every corner and under every stone.
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