PRODUCT WATCH ROUNDUP We’ve added new information to ASH Wales Product Watch about nicotine products that may be less familiar. Pouchless nicotine pods have a UK-facing retail listing: these small oral portions have no outer pouch and are not designed to melt. We’ve also added international examples of ultra-thin and semi-gel nicotine pouches, and updated our page on gels, creams, sprays and nasal inhalers. UK or Welsh availability has not been established for those international examples. These updates explain what the products are, what is verified and what remains uncertain. They do not establish how widely any product is used in Wales.
Smoking in Cars
Past campaign · policy change achieved
ASH Wales supported action to protect children from second-hand smoke in private vehicles.
The campaign is now part of Wales’ tobacco-control history: smoking in an enclosed private vehicle with someone under 18 present has been illegal in Wales since 2015.
What changed?
From 1st October 2015, it became an offence in Wales to smoke, or fail to prevent smoking, in an enclosed private vehicle when someone under 18 is present.
The rules apply even when windows are open or ventilation is being used. Vehicles with the roof fully down and vehicles occupied only by the person smoking are outside the specific child-passenger offence.
The campaign
The campaign focused on children’s exposure to second-hand smoke in the confined space of a car and built support for a clear legal safeguard.
Before the change, ASH Wales and other public-health organisations argued for legislation alongside awareness work about the risks of smoking around children.
Where things stand now
The 2015 protection remains in place. The current rule concerns smoking tobacco in enclosed private vehicles carrying someone under 18; vaping was not included in that 2015 provision.
Explore current ASH Wales work
This page records an earlier campaign. See our current campaigns and smokefree environments work for what we are focusing on now.