has said that parents who smoke in cars, in front of children, are committing a form of child abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhat? Wait!<\/p>\n
Only parents who smoke in cars? Not people in cars who might not be the parents of children present?<\/p>\n
I’m confused.<\/p>\n
I agree with much of what Professor Field is saying here. I agree that parents need to take much more responsibility for the health and wellbeing of their children.<\/p>\n
But what’s the difference – when children are present – between parents who smoke in cars and passengers who smoke in cars?<\/p>\n
And also, what’s the difference between parents who smoke in cars and parents who smoke at home?<\/p>\n
I’m not waging an all-out war on parents who are smokers, I’m just wondering why Professor Field appears to have tunnel vision that is focussed on smoking in cars and not parents who smoke at home?<\/p>\n
As the country’s leading General Practitioner, Professor Field is in a position of public influence.<\/p>\n
He seems to have been behind the recent policy shift, to stop using the word ‘obese’ and instead, to call people ‘fat’ – another change in policy direction I wholly agree with.<\/p>\n
But I don’t understand why Professor Field’s campaign to get parents who smoke in cars classed as ‘child abusers’ is not extended to *people* who smoke in cars.<\/p>\n
I also don’t understand why the ‘smoking in cars when children are around’ campaign is not rolled out to include ‘smoking in the home when children are around’.<\/p>\n
Ah well, that’ll be why I’m not a professor and he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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