smoking in cars

[Radar_uk]

Though I agree you shouldn't smoke in a car with children I do think that a car is your private property and you should be allowed to smoke in it if you choose. People who smoke with their kids in the car will smoke in the same room as them at home as well so it won't make that much difference in the end.

 

And where do we draw the line, stop fat people having kids in case they feed them unhealthy food ? Whatever happened to common sense ?

[felly100]

Can I recommend to all cigarette smokers that they change to cigars or a pipe. you taste the smoke in your mouth & do not inhale. the nicotine kick you desire is achieved through the tongue & not your lungs. the taste of a Cuban cigar is wonderful .

electronic cigarettes still involve inhaling & thus are still dangerous & do not' kick' the habit.

Have you not heard of mouth cancer?

[jason kaye]

I can't eat or drink in car so why should anyone be able to smoke, you can't tell me lighting a cigarette is safe behind the wheel.

Of course it's safe I drive better with my knees whilst rolling up a smoke

Edited February 11, 2014 by jason kaye

[mudpatten]

Unfortunately, we are going to see more and more of this intrusive and uncalled for legislation.

 

As time progresses and many of the economic and natural problems that we face become intractably difficult to solve our politicians, in an effort to justify their increasingly pointless existance, will more and more resort to this sort of "displacement activity" in a misguided effort to be seen to doing "something".

 

Politicians no longer understand how global finance works, we certainly can`t predict it or control it. They cannot control the banks, the EU or the weather. Like Eric "Fat boy" Pickles they are reduced to meaningless squabbling within a fake "blame culture" in which no one actually ever gets to carry the can.

 

So, like Nero, they fiddle while Rome burns, or drowns as is currently the case.

 

There are legislative plans afoot to ban stepping on the cracks in the pavement, and to outlaw the wearing of a loud shirt.

 

In years to come our legislature and that which it produces will be less 1984 and more Monty Python.

[pat 1]

Delivered a hire car to a house in Gt Yarmouth (any locals may relate to this at once) -social housing, mum and dad (not working) 5 kids and the cloud of smoke when the door opened (a wide screen, PS3 etc etc) such that I took the bloke outside to do paperwork in our car. Even then my mate noticed how smoky I was. It's not just cars!!

The sooner the Gulag is established here the better. These subhuman,unemployed(by choice) copulating,TV watching child abusing smokers will be the first lifted. Maybe you should keep a list of similar retrobates so that when the day comes they can be identified and eliminated much quicker.

[brett1985]

Looking at some of the comments regarding eating and drinking being illegal, and the following comments about how holding/lighting a cigarette is just as bad, can i assume that from those remarks none of you ever remove your hand from the steering wheel while driving?

never change radio station, never wind your window down or anything else?

 

logic would dictate that removing your hand from the wheel, even when doing something as simple as winding down a manual window, is in effect just as dangerous as holding a lit cigarette.

 

and before anyone suggests that you could drop that lit cigarette and cause an accident while trying to retrieve it, i would like to suggest driving with your window shut all of the time as if a bee or wasp was to come in through your window and end up between your back and the seat, that is just as dangerous.

 

i dont support people who wish to smoke in cars with little ones present (idiots), or animals for that matter, but i will support with all of my being someones right to freedom of use of their own personal property.

 

as has been mentioned several times, it is more to do with common sense.

 

just my two pence....

 

im sure others will not agree..

[Scully]

I was surprised that smoking isn’t banned completely when driving. I can't believe that driving along you can rummage for your cigarettes, take one out of the box, find your lighter, light up, and drive along with something burning in your hand, and still concentrate on the road. We not allowed to talk on mobiles etc because of the lack of concentration, but you can smoke in while driving?

 

To me that doesn’t make sense.

Don't worry, it's only a matter of time until it's banned, but it will be just as unenforceable as the mobile phone while driving thingy, which I see on a daily basis.

A mate used to make himself a roll up while driving his artic. Who says men can't multi task?

[Nial]

I detest smoking with a passion, I think it's a disgusting habit and we've drilled into our daughters the damage it can cause.

 

BUT, there is very little research that passive smoking actually causes any harm, despite the propaganda we have been fed....

 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100251229/passive-smoking-another-of-the-nanny-states-big-lies/

 

 

Nial.

[Flashman]

The bigger issue is that it's more State control of your lives, under the guise of child care this time.

 

Interestingly, it's a Labour-sponsored amendment - and event the Liberals are saying it's unworkable and "illiberal," so a step too far in controlling the actions of others.

 

Next stop will be taking kids for a Maccy-D - too fattening, taking kids skiing - too risky, taking kids to the park - the sky might fall in...

 

You may think the examples are frivolous, but the ability of MPs, civil servants and the nanny-state advisors they hire to work themselves up into righteous indignation will lead to all manner of State intervention.

[Mentalmac]

pretty stupid to smoke full stop.

 

smoking whilst pregnant should be illegal .

My other half quit the day she found out. Good on her and has been 3.5 years since she had one now so great going.

 

However her mate smoked throughout her pregnancy (much to my annoyance as I kept telling her she should quit) and the midwife whilst looking at her placenta (they always pull it all apart and inspect it thoroughly) asked her if she was a smoker, and that she could tell by her placenta as it was gritty and stuff. She then proceeded to cry her eyes out that she had been giving her baby this evil stuff but it's a bit late by then.

[Flashman]

 

 

 

... she could tell by her placenta as it was gritty and stuff. She then proceeded to cry her eyes out that she had been giving her baby this evil stuff but it's a bit late by then.

 

I heard posh tabs like B&H & Marlboro were OK, but the chavvy brands like Regal & Superkings were lung bleeders.