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Review of smoke-free legislation cancelled
Thu 29 Jul 2010
The government has confirmed that a review of anti-smoking laws in the UK will not go ahead.
Earlier this year, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) suggested extending current restrictions on smoking to places such as public parks, outdoor swimming pools and cars.
However, public health minister Anne Milton has stated that the existing legislation is working perfectly well.
As a result, the coalition will not press ahead with a planned review of the rules.
The RCP's calls for tighter restrictions on smoking, which came in a report entitled Passive Smoking and Children, were met with opposition by smoker's rights campaign group Forest.
Simon Clark, director of the group, said stopping people from smoking in their own cars would be both unacceptable and unenforceable, before adding that smoking outdoors poses little or no threat to a person's health.
The RCP believes that about two million British children are exposed to cigarette smoke in their homes.
