Was reading a few comments on the BBC site today about this - interested to see where our well balanced membership sit on this issue.

 

My personal viewpoint is: I smoke, I smoke in my car and you'll have to kill me if you want me to stop. I'm more than able to smoke and drive at the same time too (although it does get difficult to hold my can of beer at the same time:laugh:).

 

Seems to me like there is a solid argument for banning smoking in cars with youngsters - I couldn't agree more. I choose to smoke, but I try my best not to impose on others, certainly not vulnerable children. But a blanket ban on smoking in cars? Yeah, good luck with that one.

 

If the government is really hell bent on making us all fit and healthy, there are plenty of other places you could start. Should people be allowed to do things to themselves even if they are unhealthy? Most people drink or smoke, or both. The others are just completely devoid of personality. I often wonder why our brains developed all these receptors to illicit substances if we weren't supposed to take them [typed whilst tightening belt around upper arm].

 

Anyway, where is this going to end?

I think what they may be trying to do is stop some of the many accidents caused by smoking in a car.

 

Smoking in a car is (in my opinion) worse than using a mobile phone, as if you drop a mobile phone, it's not much of a problem, drop a lit cigarette, and it could become a major problem!!! By the way I am an ex smoker so can see both sides of this argument.

 

However I am also an ex paramedic as most of you will know, and two of the main causes of RTC's are a bee or a wasp in a car, or a dropped cigarette (well in the

80's/90's they were anyway), I lost count of the RTC's I attended due to these two factors. Thankfully the bee and wasp problem was a spring/summer thing rather than an all year round thing like smoking.

 

I also attended quite a serious accident that involved a motorcyclist, a non-thinking smoker flicked the last of a lit cigarette out of the window, not realising there was a motorcyclist behind him, it went through the visor appeture of the motorcyclists helmet and started to burn him, causing him to come off the motorcycle he was riding straight into the path of a car, he had rather a nasty knee injury, well, when I say nasty, I mean he had vertually no knee cap left!!! And burns just below his eye and on his neck the two points it lodged for a couple of seconds.

 

I do think they should stop the throwing of lit cigarettes out of car windows.

 

Will be intersting to see what others think on this topic.

 

i agree here, but if laws where about make life easier safer common sense etc we wouldnt have half the ones we do. they bang on about road safety give you all the "stats" but the fact remains we have some of the safest roads in the world, the main cause for accidents because thats what they are no one sets out to crash, the cause of that accident is opene ended. however the main cause of accidents full stop, motor or otherwise is not thinking properly. common sense says trying to go round a bend at full whack in the wet is a stupid idea, common sense says driving along with something onfire in your hand is a stupid idea, but common sense is what we all lack most of the time. and tahst fine but its other poeple that it impacts on. common sense says that climbing a ladder with hands full of paint and paintbrushes not secured is a silly idea but we all do it, difference is though you cant issue a ticket for that. they will tax and ticket you for whatever they can reguardless of the reaity of the risk. its all about money.

i agree here, but if laws where about make life easier safer common sense etc we wouldnt have half the ones we do. they bang on about road safety give you all the "stats" but the fact remains we have some of the safest roads in the world, the main cause for accidents because thats what they are no one sets out to crash, the cause of that accident is opene ended. however the main cause of accidents full stop, motor or otherwise is not thinking properly. common sense says trying to go round a bend at full whack in the wet is a stupid idea, common sense says driving along with something onfire in your hand is a stupid idea, but common sense is what we all lack most of the time. and tahst fine but its other poeple that it impacts on. common sense says that climbing a ladder with hands full of paint and paintbrushes not secured is a silly idea but we all do it, difference is though you cant issue a ticket for that. they will tax and ticket you for whatever they can reguardless of the reaity of the risk. its all about money.

 

 

 

Oh yeah, totally agree it's all about money, and the motorist is the first group to be picked on once again.

 

I am an ex smoker (I know, they are usually the worst for somkers to deal with), but after seeing the "accidents" (however they are no longer called "accidents" because that infers there is no one to blame, when most of the time there is, hence road traffic collision) I never smoked behind the wheel of a vehicle, I am also an ex motorcyclist that used to have to dodge the discarded fags from the windows of cars and wagons, hence when I got behind the wheel of a car, no smoking, or if you really have to, use the ashtray....lol.

 

I may have got this wrong, but wasn't it just if there was children in the car with a smoker that they were going on about? Hence the doctors that were speaking up about it.

 

I don't climb ladders with hands full of paint either (God I'm a saint.....lmao),

 

but I find it difficult to get to the top of the ladders in my wheelchair.....pmsl.

 

But yeah, agree also that 99.9% of collisions occur because of the lack of common sense. Last winter I was driving along a motorway near to us, most were taking it easy because it was very icy, next thing a bloke in a people carrier went flying past us, I said to my daughter he will end up trashing that, the next slight bend he lost it on the said ice, ended up hitting the central reservation, bouncing of that, spinning all the time, and ended up on the hard shoulder!!! He was lucky he didn't kill someone, and the occupants were a little shaken but all ok.

 

It is just another excuse for getting even more money out of the motorist. Think they are looking for a way to get motorists off the roads altogether!!!

Instead of banning smoking and taxing the shit out of stuff governments should do the world a favour and ban religion

Instead of banning smoking and taxing the shit out of stuff governments should do the world a favour and ban religion

 

Now that is the best idea I've heard in a long time!!!

I smoke, dont smoke in the car (Hate to see it when kids are in), dont smoke in my own house, (Hate the smell when I get up), Glad it is banned in pubs (Much better atmosphere) :thumbup:

 

Come to think of it not sure why the fook I smoke

:death:

 

 

 

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I'll third that!

I smoke, dont smoke in the car (Hate to see it when kids are in), dont smoke in my own house, (Hate the smell when I get up), Glad it is banned in pubs (Much better atmosphere) :thumbup:

 

Come to think of it not sure why the fook I smoke

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Classic, and now is the time to pack it in....lol....:tt2:

i stopped smoking when driving when i flicked a smoke out the window and it came back in..pulled the car over after seeing smoke in the car..could i find the cigg could i f00k coz it landed in my hood.ruind a good zipper but could have saved from me from a car fire

I was a smoker since age 13 but now I vape full time! Safe in the car and no smells too! I wonder how long the libby crowd will try get that banned and the products taxed too.

 

As for my religion comment ill take that to my death where I will be greeted by.....oh no one actually.