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Taxi driver fined after being caught smoking behind the wheel

A TAXI driver has been fined £30 after being spotted smoking in his cab while waiting for a customer.


A Carmarthenshire County Council officer issued the £30 on-the-spot fine in Carmarthen’s town centre Lammas Street earlier this week, the authority’s first for breaking the ban on smoking in public places, which came into effect in Wales in April 2007. Carmarthenshire council head of public protection Philip Davies said officers from the street scene section were investigating another problem in Lammas Street when they saw the driver smoking in his vehicle.

Executive board member for housing and public protection, Coun Hugh Evans said: “Taxis are vehicles which the public use regularly and must be kept smoke-free. The driver has learned a very hard and expensive lesson and I am sure the message will soon circulate among the rest of the trade.”

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/

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That'll pay the CCO's £25,000 wages..one £30 Smoking fine issued since 2007... he wants to come up this way......I see Taxi and PH drivers puffing away like Puff the Magic Dragon in their vehicles on a daily basis..

and round here some even let their customers smoke in the car

I wouldn't let my customers smoke in my vehicle even before the ban

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I have never allowed customers to smoke in my vehicle you used to get them walking towards the vehicle lighting up and when told you can't smoke in the taxi most indignant that they weren't going to be allowed into the car with a fag on but I always stood my ground on that one although sometimes you lost the fare these days they don'y try it on but a few drivers still are daft enough to let them smoke

I'm waiting for the day they get caught