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'Ban parents smoking in cars'

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People should be banned from smoking in cars in which children are passengers, according to the head of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Professor Terence Stephenson argues it should be made illegal to inflict smoke on youngsters in cars and children's health should be given greater priority.

The BBC's health correspondent Jane Hughes reports.

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