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Old 18-12-2016, 06:46
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Smoking (and some eating) use a different part of your brain and are mostly automatic.
Like changing gear or operating the indicators.

The other stuff is very distracting because it requires concentration and distraction from the road.
Why smoking and driving is bad.

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Old 18-12-2016, 08:52
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So, they can't do anything about the idiots using their phones at the wheel. Just how is this oing to be enforced?
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:11
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That fine was ridiculous! I mean, she was in a jam! The car wouldn't have even been moving! What danger is there by eating a banana in a car that wasn't moving?
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:23
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I'm afraid my outrage meter remains stubbornly stuck on zero over this issue. Sorry OP.

Truth is, drivers have always smoked in cars, long before mobile phones were invented. I firmly believe that as far as safe driving is concerned, mobiles are infinitely more distracting than a cigarette, which may in fact help the driver concentrate even better in some cases.

I don't smoke myself, but I do take on board what smokers tell me about the power of a ciggy helping them to calm down if they are feeling agitated, etc.
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:28
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Jock

Are you jesting? This is a serious subject. Imagine a lady wearing a skirt, doing 70mph, drops her fag between her laps, big chance of an accident.
So ban women who wear skirts from driving and smoking on the motorway then.
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:31
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I've got a better idea, keep your nose out of my car!! You've banned me from public buildings, that's fine. You won't ban me from smoking in my own property.

I could choke on a sweet just as easily as I could drop a cigarette
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:35
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I've got a better idea, keep your nose out of my car!! You've banned me from public buildings, that's fine. You won't ban me from smoking in my own property.

I could choke on a sweet just as easily as I could drop a cigarette
I nearly had a crash once when a wasp flew in my window and stung me on the shoulder. Maybe we should ban opening car windows to prevent this happening again.
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:36
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I nearly had a crash once when a wasp flew in my window and stung me on the shoulder. Maybe we should ban opening car windows to prevent this happening again.
Do you realise how much of a danger you were having your window open? Tut
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:39
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I nearly had a crash once when a wasp flew in my window and stung me on the shoulder. Maybe we should ban opening car windows to prevent this happening again.
....and God help the other motorists if a spider was spotted by some.....
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:41
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Do you realise how much of a danger you were having your window open? Tut
Naughty I know. I also suffer with hayfever in early summer, so the sneezing, coughing, runny nose and irritated eyes, will increase the risk of an accident. I propose we ban those who suffer with hayfever from driving.
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:42
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I really don't get how it is as dangerous as using a phone???

Smoking while driving lfong distance keeps me more elert, I think.,gives me something to do. While there are occasionally reports of people getting fined for eating it is rare and suggest a lot of people do it. There are now drive in coffee shops for drivers to buy coffee on the go, you could buy it at petrol station for years. Coffee is another good way of keeping awake!

OP, if you can smell the cigarette smoke coming from a driver in another car I suggest your either not human or your imagening it
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:52
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It's not the actual smoking that I find difficult. It's the reaching into the passenger car well finding the packet, leaning in the back to retrieve the lighter out of my coat pocket and still managing to do 100mph in the middle lane that's the tricky bit.
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Old 18-12-2016, 09:55
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The majority, unless it's peeing down with rain, will have their car window open when smoking and pass on their stench to other cars.
The sound of a barrel-bottom being well and truly scraped!
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:03
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Enough

Every day I see smokers trying to drive, surely this is as risky as trying to use the hand held mobile or texting/etc.

I've read stories where cops have fined drivers for drinking water/soft drinks behind the wheel. Surely the smoker is putting at risk other road users and pedestrians.

Feel free to agree with me, close to 99% throw their fag out of the car when they have finished.

The majority, unless it's peeing down with rain, will have their car window open when smoking and pass on their stench to other cars. I have to press the outside to a close and thankfully the filtration system in my car is good.

These smokers are as bad as the clowns on their push bikes that jump red lights, don't stop at pedestrian crossings, ride on pavements, and 99% don't have a rear cycle light and only 10% have a front light.

Push bike riders are quick to post where they feel they are right but never themselves when disregarding the highway codes.

Therefore, if you agree with me re the smoker/drivers and those that throw out their fag out of the window and the bit about the clowns on bikes that break almost every highway code, please post your thoughts, experiences here and hopefully this will become a massive thread and DS will promote our stance.
Ban clowns. 99% agree.
It's not the actual smoking that I find difficult. It's the reaching into the passenger car well finding the packet, leaning in the back to retrieve the lighter out of my coat pocket and still managing to do 100mph in the middle lane that's the tricky bit.

Ban the middle lane! 99.9% agree.


So ban women who wear skirts from driving and smoking on the motorway then.
Ban driving! Before the planet runs out of cotton wool.
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:09
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I really don't get how it is as dangerous as using a phone???

Smoking while driving long distance keeps me more elert, I think.,gives me something to do. While there are occasionally reports of people getting fined for eating it is rare and suggest a lot of people do it. There are now drive in coffee shops for drivers to buy coffee on the go, you could buy it at petrol station for years. Coffee is another good way of keeping awake!

OP, if you can smell the cigarette smoke coming from a driver in another car I suggest your either not human or your imagening it
In slow moving or static traffic certainly all of the time, especially in dry weather and that, is a fact other's will back up.
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:14
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In slow moving or static traffic certainly all of the time, especially in dry weather and that, is a fact other's will back up.
I've smelt the odd spliff, but can't say I've ever noticed fag smoke when driving. I find the exhaust fumes worse tbh.
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:16
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In slow moving or static traffic certainly all of the time, especially in dry weather and that, is a fact other's will back up.
I think that's called the 'catalytic fag convertor effect'.
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:20
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In slow moving or static traffic certainly all of the time, especially in dry weather and that, is a fact other's will back up.
99%?

Don't the toxic fumes your vehicle produces bother you at all, the cause of real and serious health problems for the general public?
The toxic fumes you inhale even more of stuck in slow moving traffic with your window down while you happily add to the pollution?
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:27
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In slow moving or static traffic certainly all of the time, especially in dry weather and that, is a fact other's will back up.
I like facts. However, I don't believe that is one.
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:30
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99%?

Don't the toxic fumes your vehicle produces bother you at all, the cause of real and serious health problems for the general public?
The toxic fumes you inhale even more of stuck in slow moving traffic with your window down while you happily add to the pollution?
I drive a convertible (that's a fact and 100% of people I know will back me up!) and I smell all sorts of things coming from other cars such as perfume/aftershave, takeaways, air fresheners, petrol and Diesel fumes, burning oil, even washer fluid when people clean their screens ... not to mention smells from farmyards, factories, roadworks etc.

99% of people agree that all of these should be banned!
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:32
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It's not the actual smoking that I find difficult. It's the reaching into the passenger car well finding the packet, leaning in the back to retrieve the lighter out of my coat pocket and still managing to do 100mph in the middle lane that's the tricky bit.
yes, quite.


this thread has reminded me of the ex who got a cherry in his ear when his smoke was fuzzed out of the window, he didn`t have an accident, luckily so i can do this but really it`s .
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:33
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I drive a convertible (that's a fact and 100% of people I know will back me up!) and I smell all sorts of things coming from other cars such as perfume/aftershave, takeaways, air fresheners, petrol and Diesel fumes, burning oil, even washer fluid when people clean their screens ... not to mention smells from farmyards, factories, roadworks etc.

99% of people agree that all of these should be banned!


Ban the planet!!!


yes, quite.


this thread has reminded me of the ex who got a cherry in his ear when his smoke was fuzzed out of the window, he didn`t have an accident, luckily so i can do this but really it`s .
Not that banned chain smoking bike riding clown chucking cherries again???
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:56
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Not that banned chain smoking bike riding clown chucking cherries again???
that`s a wooooosh on me i don`t whether you`re agreeing, disagreeing or just having a laugh .
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Old 18-12-2016, 10:59
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So ban women who wear skirts from driving and smoking on the motorway then.
Grow up please. You full well know it was just an example.
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Old 18-12-2016, 11:03
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Btw, should have added this to my original post. A few months ago, hot summers day, my dad driving down dual carriage way, slow moving nose to tail traffic, about 25 mph, a van driver threw his fag end out and landed between the bonnet and plastic ducts where wiper are and smoke was coming out. The van driver my dad could not catch up with. But imagine, warm/hot days not everyone turns on air con and windows open and if your rear window was open a burning seat or if you had a child in a seat and the fag end landed in the child seat.

I'm sure others have similar example so more of a reason to BAN smoking in cars all together
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