Ash wanted car smoking ban seven years ago

Anti-smoking lobby Ash Ireland welcomed moves to ban smoking in cars carrying children — seven years after it first called for it to be outlawed.

Passengers as well as drivers face fines of €3,000 for smoking in a commercial or private vehicles under planned legislation.

Ash Ireland chairman Dr Ross Morgan said it first raised a ban as a possible health initiative with the previous health minister Mary Harney in 2005.

In April 2010, it met the then newly appointed health minister James Reilly, and again pushed for the ban to be introduced.

Dr Reilly told the campaign group that he would proceed with the introduction of the ban as soon as it was feasible.

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Source: Evelyn Ring, Irish Examiner, 14/01/2013