This formulation started appearing some time ago, and is now used widely — but it doesn’t actually say what it means:
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| Source: BBC News for smartphone, and online: ‘Car smoke ban “to start in October”’ |
It’s not clear whether this ridiculous phrase was coined by someone in government or a journalist, but since children are not legally allowed to smoke, it’s obvious that smoking with them would also be against the law. Either the construction ‘smoking in cars with children’ needs to conclude with the preposition in, or with should be replaced with a meaningful qualifier, such as containing.
Smoking in cars with children
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