Parents are to be banned from smoking at the sidelines of their kids football matches despite it being outdoors. Spectators will be banned from lighting up on the touchline at all 522 of Wales' junior clubs.The ban is to be brought in for matches for children aged five to 11 later this month.It will cover up to 13 years from September 2022 with plans to extend it to older children later.Coaches and club officials will be tasked with enforcing the new policy with individual clubs to write a no-smoking rule into their code of conduct.Health minister Vaughan Gething claimed the touchline ban would “help protect children from seeing smoking as an acceptable and normal behaviour” and “de-normalise” the habit.But Simon Clark, director of the.
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