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Quoting: Marie Drew

Apart from the medical reasons for not smoking in a car or anywhere else for that matter, perhaps we should consider the safety aspect of driving while smoking. Like using mobile phones which are illegal while driving, so too when smoking and driving, full control of the car cannot be in the hands of the driver.

With so many cars on the roads today and the high speed that cars are driven on motorways then full concentration should be on driving as any other activity will interfere with that concentration. This also includes the smallest amount of alcohol which will impair driving.

First of all, Marie, thanks for sticking to the subject.
I have been driving and smoking for well over fifty years and have never had an accident attributed to smoking whilst driving.
What I’m really about is the steady erosion of our rights to conduct our lives without the intervention of the plethora of laws telling us how to conduct our lives.
Just as a bi-product, what about the family cars that drive for miles with unruly kids in the rear seats distracting the drivers? When will they bring in a law to stop the conveyance of children unless they are bound and gagged?

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17/11/2011 12:41:21

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Quoting: Marie Drew

Apart from the medical reasons for not smoking in a car or anywhere else for that matter, perhaps we should consider the safety aspect of driving while smoking. Like using mobile phones which are illegal while driving, so too when smoking and driving, full control of the car cannot be in the hands of the driver.

With so many cars on the roads today and the high speed that cars are driven on motorways then full concentration should be on driving as any other activity will interfere with that concentration. This also includes the smallest amount of alcohol which will impair driving.

Alright Marie, To take your premise to it’s logical conclusion, passengers should be banned as they will distract the driver, radios/cd players should also be banned for the same reason & high featureless fences should be errected on both sides of the road as the scenery would be a distraction. As picking your nose, scratching your head ect means you would only have one hand on the wheel they too should be made illegal & as manual gear changes mean a loss of control & concentration they also should also be banned.

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17/11/2011 12:41:24

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Quoting: Steve Greenwood

Just as a bi-product, what about the family cars that drive for miles with unruly kids in the rear seats distracting the drivers? When will they bring in a law to stop the conveyance of children unless they are bound and gagged?

Alright Steven Now that sounds good to me, I’ll vote for it.

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17/11/2011 12:43:42

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I’m perhaps not the best person to comment on smoking because, basically,and never having smoked myself, I don’t really understand why people do it. As we are born we are equipped with a number of instincts and abilities to help cope with this strange new world we’ve arrived in, but we don’t have a vent on the top of our heads to let smoke out, so all the signs from day one are they we were not intended to do it.

I understand even less why school-kids start, especially girls, or how they can afford to do so anyway, because it is a very expensive habit these days.

I tried the illicit fag behind the bike shed at school, peer pressure being what it was, had my coughing spat, and thought, "well, Colin, you won’t be doing that again" and I didn’t.

My older brother died of lung cancer, having smoked all of his life from school days. Right to the end he didn’t believe smoking had anything to do with it. I’ve known a few others of his generation go the same way.

So smoking has never held any appeal for me and I’ve never had the habit, but there are many hypocrisies in this world we live in and one of them is the admission by governments all over the world of the cost of smoking on health, yet none of them have the courage to give up the tax revenue by banning smoking alltogether.

So, do I care if they ban smoking in your own car? Not really, although I don’t know how it could be enforced, so it will be a stupid law if brought in.

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17/11/2011 13:00:40

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Hhhmmm!!!!

Quoting: Steve Greenwood

First of all, Marie, thanks for sticking to the subject.

Now, now. Steve! There are a number of us who are capable of injecting a little humour along the way and still be able to resume the topic quickly. Enough said.

It is fair to say that, driving, in this day and age holds probably more distractions than most other pursuits; when it comes to safety.
I agree with the statement that music, in car, can be distracting yet, do they not tell us to ramp up the stereo when distance driving in order to stave off the effects of tiredness?!
Smoking removes a hand from the wheel a number of times during the life of a cigarette. Hhhhmmm! So does gear changing unless you are using an old column shift or flappy paddle change. If you are using the latter you can probably afford a chauffeur anyway!
My earlier comment re police enforcing the no phone law is based as much on the amount of vehicle patrol officers that I have seen doing this very thing themselves as it is in regard to the public sin.
The worst distraction by far when driving is called the ’Wife or Husband’! Either of these are anathema to driving concentration.
Should they also be gagged or made to ’step away from the vehicle’?????

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