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Britain will [sooner / soon] soon smoking in cars with children. Britain's government wants to [reduce / deduce] the harm cigarette smoke [do / does] to children. New laws will cut the [opportunities / chances] of children passive smoking. This is when someone breathes in the smoke from a cigarette. Many studies say [impassive / passive] smoking can almost be as harmful as actually [smoking / smokes] a cigarette. The British government said it looked at research that found children who sat in [smoke-filled / smoke-filling] cars had health [problems / problem] . Britain's leader David Cameron said the problem is [peculiar / particularly] bad in cars because there is so little space, so the car fills with smoke very quickly. The new law will [do / make] it illegal for anyone to smoke in a car that has a child in it.

Not everyone [agreeing / agrees] with the new law. Some lawmakers say it takes [off / away] the freedom for people to smoke in their [now / own] car. They believe people should be able to smoke in their car because there are so many [public / publicly] places where smoking is [not / non] allowed. A few lawmakers said they were worried the government might make the ban [width / wider] in the future, [so / as] no one could smoke in a car. However, Britain's health minister said the health of children [were / was] more important than the freedom to smoke. He told reporters: "The liberty to smoke in your car in front of a child doesn't [seem / seen] to me that important and protecting a child's health [is / does] seem to me to be incredibly important."

 


 

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