You can not legislate common sense. Not smoking in a car with a minor doesn't mean the same person won't be home at night blowing smoke in their kid's face while reading them a bedtime story.
The way to handle it is to raise the tax on cigarettes and alcohol high enough that they become luxury items. Nobody gets drunk on $10,000 bottles of wine, they sip it and savor it because it is a luxury item. If cigarettes were $100 a pack people would not "waste them" by smoking them alone in a car or in a car with their kid.
The government would be well advised to socially engineer society by making things expensive rather than illegal in most cases.
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