Smoking in cars to be banned.

[tyred]

No, but he will sue his dad at 18 for putting his life at risk as a child, thus ensuring access to early inheritance.
People will sell their soul for beer and fag money.

Okay, you gotta deal. How much will you give me for my soul?

 

[brand]

No, but he will sue his dad at 18 for putting his life at risk as a child, thus ensuring access to early inheritance.
People will sell their soul for beer and fag money.

Just beer, I don't smoke.

 

[cyberknight]

I wonder if they will get a fine if the engine is on fire and giving off smoke ?

 

[Aperitif]

Yesterday, in West Hendon, there was a guy driving along from one set of lights to another, with a phone in his hand, connected to the umbilical power cable...natch, the car was gliding all over the place as he texted. At the second set of lights, he was trying to light a fag while holding the phone, and move off at the same time, seemingly trying to grip the wheel too. Something had to give...it was the big steel crash bar along the back of the Luton van he drove into. I edged past the inside of the van and left them to it. Smoking could kill!

 

[screenman]

Twice when riding the motorbike I have had fag ends end up in my lap, chucked out by drivers not paying attention, or maybe on purpose.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Twice when riding the motorbike I have had fag ends end up in my lap, chucked out by drivers not paying attention, or maybe on purpose.

washing the windscreen is another pet hate when on a motorcycle ..car drivers do take on a "im alright jack attitude"

 

[screenman]

washing the windscreen is another pet hate when on a motorcycle ..car drivers do take on a "im alright jack attitude"

Forgot about that one, I have had that happen when on the bike as well. I like to think they are not doing it on purpose, just not thinking very well instead.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Don't get too exited the proposed law is to protect passengers from breathing in smoke, not to protect cyclists from being shunted by "i must have a ciggy every five minutes no matter where i am" man/woman!

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Not a smoker, never have been but I've seen how cranky some get without a cig. TBH I'd rather a happy one handed smoker than 2 hands on the wheel and their brain in the fag packet.

Utter bollocks.

Need a ciggie? Pull over and have one then. Would that sentence work with "TBH I'd rather a happy one handed texter than 2 hands on the wheel and their brain worrying about warning Sharon they are going to be late".

It won't make any difference because, as has been said, nobody will enforce it anyway, which is a shame, I've never understood how driving with a smouldering stick in your mouth could be considered safe.

 

[cardiac case]

I can't for the life of me see the point in another new law that won't be enforced.

I could go on and on, but what will that achieve ?


Paul G

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I'm about to spout some Utter bollocks.

Would that sentence work with "TBH I'd rather a happy one handed texter than 2 hands on the wheel and their brain worrying about warning Sharon they are going to be late".

No but texting isn't proven to be a chemical addiction is it.

 

[Smokin Joe]

No but texting isn't proven to be a chemical addiction is it.

Wanna fecking bet?

I know people who spend more than half the day staring into their phones with their thumbs flailing like windmills.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I'm far more concerned with texting drivers than smoking drivers around me on my bike. I think anything to do with fiddling with phones while driving is a far more dangerous thing to be doing but yeah, academic argument as they're all just yet more in a long line of might as well not be enforced for all the deterrent current enforcement levels have.

 

[Col5632]

If its not texting its facebook

 

[BrumJim]

Texting drivers can be fairly obvious. Non-smoking drivers aren't at all.