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Campaign To STOP Smoking Whilst Trying To Drive
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Jane Doh!
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Princessxxxx:
“Grow up please. You full well know it was just an example.”

Do men not drop cigarettes? Or are their clothes cigarette proof?
Pumping Iron
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Princessxxxx:
“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”

I've never had anyone's fag land in my childs seat. Have you got any real examples of this happening in the UK?
Jane Doh!
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Princessxxxx:
“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”

Education is better than a ban. Not all smokers are selfish and thoughtless.
Jane Doh!
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Pumping Iron:
“I've never had anyone's fag land in my childs seat. Have you got any real examples of this happening in the UK?”

I've never had one come into the car I'm travelling in, never mind land in a car seat.
anne_666
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by annette kurten:
“that`s a wooooosh on me i don`t whether you`re agreeing, disagreeing or just having a laugh .”

Sorry annette Thread joke, having a laugh.

By the way where did the cherry come from?
hufflestuff
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Princessxxxx:
“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 as 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”

Oh, well that's convinced me. Ban it! Ban it all!
hufflestuff
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Jane Doh!:
“Do men not drop cigarettes? Or are their clothes cigarette proof?”

Men do not run the risk of dropping a lit cigarette between their laps (men generally only have one lap) and they wear skirts less than women do.
Pumping Iron
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by hufflestuff:
“Men do not run the risk of dropping a lit cigarette between their laps and they wear skirts less than women do.”

They tend to wear shorts more than women though.
hufflestuff
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Pumping Iron:
“They tend to wear shorts more than women though.”

Yes but shorts are statistically proven to not generate a towering inferno of flames.
anne_666
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by hufflestuff:
“Yes but shorts are statistically proven to not generate a towering inferno of flames.”

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Originally Posted by hufflestuff:
“Oh, well that's convinced me. Ban it! Ban it all!”

I suggested banning the planet, just to be sure



Originally Posted by Princessxxxx:
“Grow up please. You full well know it was just an example.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJh6slAqXM

And the health damaging toxic muck you driving your car produces?
Jane Doh!
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by hufflestuff:
“Men do not run the risk of dropping a lit cigarette between their laps (men generally only have one lap) and they wear skirts less than women do.”

Women have two laps?

Men can drop a cigarette between their legs and cause even more of a problem trying to rescue it.
Zeropoint1
18-12-2016
I know I'm just cynical, but there seem to be a lot of new members around all suddenly posting 'facts' obviously without posting anything to back them up.

98.9% of the voices in my head know this!

There's a one in Broadcasting with a new thread about the TV licence and iPlayer.
Pumping Iron
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by hufflestuff:
“Yes but shorts are statistically proven to not generate a towering inferno of flames.”

I just put this to the test...now I've got a burnt willy
anne_666
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Pumping Iron:
“I just put this to the test...now I've got a burnt willy ”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t_KDGqOmE
hufflestuff
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Jane Doh!:
“Women have two laps?

Men can drop a cigarette between their legs and cause even more of a problem trying to rescue it.”

Apparently yes. Look at post 7 and you'll see it is a Fact!
hufflestuff
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Pumping Iron:
“I just put this to the test...now I've got a burnt willy ”

You should change your username to Scorchknob.
Mark39London
18-12-2016
Ban young children from cars, they are far more distracting than fags or phones. Plus all of the extra exercise will solve the childhood obesity crisis; It's a win, win situation
blueblade
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Zeropoint1:
“I know I'm just cynical, but there seem to be a lot of new members around all suddenly posting 'facts' obviously without posting anything to back them up.

98.9% of the voices in my head know this!

There's a one in Broadcasting with a new thread about the TV licence and iPlayer.”

Seems to be a recent penomenon. Make something up and then state it as fact.

When pressed for hard evidence, your post will usually be conveniently ignored.
Doctorb
18-12-2016
If it was banned it would be pointless without effective enforcement. If/when technology is used, it would probably scoop up all the other illegal/dangerous things people do as well. Still want it?
annette kurten
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by anne_666:
“Sorry annette Thread joke, having a laugh.

By the way where did the cherry come from? ”

no i`m sorry for the woosh

the cherry was the red hot end of his cigarette which is the equivilant of getting a wasp in your eye in terms of instant flinching distraction i would say.
Jane Doh!
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by hufflestuff:
“Apparently yes. Look at post 7 and you'll see it is a Fact!”

No way! I only have one and I thought I was a woman. I'm going to have to re-evaluate my entire existence now.
coughthecat
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Zeropoint1:
“I know I'm just cynical, but there seem to be a lot of new members around all suddenly posting 'facts' obviously without posting anything to back them up.

98.9% of the voices in my head know this!

There's a one in Broadcasting with a new thread about the TV licence and iPlayer.”

What?

A thread about smoking with cyclists shoe-horned into it? You couldn't find less contentious issues here in GD!

As for facts, did you know that only atheists smoke and vegans are the worst cyclists!
Chris Frost
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by koantemplation:
“Smoking has done society no good what so ever.”

I think you'll find that the tax receipts from smoking far outweigh the cost burden to the NHS for looking after ill smokers. So smoking (or the money it raises in taxes) has had a positive benefit to society.

Incidentally, I'm a non-smoker.
Hollie_Louise
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Princessxxxx:
“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”

Please tell me how many reported incidents has there been in the past decade or two of a lit cigarette flying through a window into a child seat.
jra
18-12-2016
Originally Posted by Princessxxxx:
“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.”

I'd be in favour of cigarette smoking in vehicles being made illegal, since it's obviously a major distraction if you drop it, the burning end falls out, or it blows back into the vehicle when trying to throw it out of the window. Cigarette smoking is already illegal in all PSVs AFAIK, so this would be the next step.

The other thing is cigarettes thrown out of the window are a fire hazard in dry weather.

Ideally in a moving vehicle you should be driving and only that. No talking to other passengers, no in-vehicle entertainment, no sat nav, no soft drinking, no smoking, no mobile phones etc., as they are all distractions. Obviously that is never going to happen in full and one has to be realistic, minimizing the number of distractions. Many roads are so busy these days, that's the only way.
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