Call for smoking in private cars to be banned!

Stuff reports:

Tax increases on cigarettes are necessary, but more could be done to make South Cantabrians consider kicking the smoking habit, according to Community and Public Health. …

“I’d love to see the government push for smokefree cars. So we’ve ticked off smokefree playgrounds and parks. Our Smokefree South Canterbury Committee have done two years of research around that [smokefree cars],” she said.

Community Public and Health were “certainly pushing” for the government to consider legislation around smokefree cars.

Why not just arrest anyone who is a smoker and send them to jail?

Cars are private property of the owner. Parks and playgrounds are owned by local government. If you think it is the role of the state to ban smoking in cars, then why not ban smoking in private homes also? I can just imagine the squads of officials raiding people sitting at home having a cigarette, and hauling them off to jail.