The new ban was largely hailed by medical organizations and health groups but the public reaction to it was mixed as it is considered as an assault to one's private space.

"Cigarette smoking is very harmful, but fining someone smoking in his private car is incomprehensible... Private car equals to private space. It's none of their (government) business," Umit Nazli Boyner, a prominent businesswoman, was quoted as saying by local press.

Boyner, former head of Turkey's powerful association of businesspeople TUSIAD, denounced the government's decision as an infringement of personal rights while insisting that she is not a smoker herself.

Lawyers are also divided on the new ban.

"According to law, one's private car is regarded as a private domain, but when you drive in your car, the vehicle enters public domain. Thus the ban is legally enforceable and drivers can be fined," argued lawyer Rezan Ozdemir while other lawyers claim that a private car is the private space of a citizen.

Meanwhile, some drivers attempted to circumvent the ban, as a video went viral on social media, where a man is seen in his car with two tubes in his mouth, one from which he takes a big drag of smoke and blows it outside his window on the other.

"I'm not smoking in my car. I have invented this system to prevent my fellow cigarette smoker brothers from being fined by the police," said the driver smiling in the video.

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