Driver stopped for speeding gets ticketed for smoking cigar

It's well-established that smoking can kill you;under the wrongcircumstances, it can also get you a traffic ticket.

RCMPsay they stopped an allegedly speeding car in Halfway Cove, GuysboroughCounty, N.S. The RCMPofficer noticed the driver was smoking a cigar and had a 13-year-old passenger.

The officer told the driver that was illegalunder Nova Scotia's Smoke-Free Places Act. Police say that's when the driver got belligerent.

He refused to stubout his cigar and kept on smoking. The officercharged him under the Smoke-Free Places Act and issued a speeding ticket. The incident happened on June 30, but police sent out a media release about it Thursday.

In Nova Scotia, it is illegal to smoke or vape tobacco or cannabis in a car with someone aged 18 or younger, even if the windows or sunroof are open.The act also prohibits smoking in company vehiclescarrying two or more people.