{"id":18251,"date":"2015-09-18T22:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18251"},"modified":"2015-09-18T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:35:32","slug":"new-smoking-rules-from-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18251","title":{"rendered":"New Smoking Rules From October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a title=\"Smoking in vehicles: new rules from 1 October 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/UKDVSA\/bulletins\/11aa9a9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DVSA alert refers to the new smoking law<\/a>, which will apply to all drivers in England and Wales from 1 October 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Smoking in vehicles: new rules from 1 October 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From 1 October 2015 it will be illegal to smoke in a vehicle with anyone under 18 present.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new law will apply in <strong>England and Wales. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both the driver and the smoker could be fined \u00a350. The law applies to every driver, including those aged 17 and those with a provisional driving licence.<\/p>\n<p>The law does not apply if the driver is 17 years old and is on their own in the car.<\/p>\n<p>The law is changing to protect children and young people from the dangers of secondhand smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/smokefreecars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.gov.uk\/smokefreecars<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with it \u2013 nothing annoys me more than seeing people smoking with kids in the car. I don\u2019t know how they\u2019ll enforce it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This DVSA alert refers to the new smoking law, which will apply to all drivers in England and Wales from 1 October 2015. Smoking in vehicles: new rules from 1 October 2015 From 1 October 2015 it will be illegal to smoke in a vehicle with anyone under 18 present. 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