Heard a minister on radio yesterday evening say that: "smoking while driving was as dangerous as using a phone, so if using a phone carries points so should cigarette smoking".
What a load of baloney, imagine an educated elected representative saying such a thing, the next thing we will get points for is turning on the radio or wiping/picking your nose, or winding down your window, even changing the gear your hands wont be on the steering wheel, ban radios,window winders and gears too and especally two way radios and sat navs, You don't look at a cigg while you smoke or have your hand off the wheel any longer than the above samples. Imagine how calm the smokers would be in traffic without their fix, I wouldn't like to cross their path anyway. How many lives do you all think would be saved or lost if such a ban came in ?
What a load of baloney, imagine an educated elected representative saying such a thing, the next thing we will get points for is turning on the radio or wiping/picking your nose, or winding down your window, even changing the gear your hands wont be on the steering wheel, ban radios,window winders and gears too and especally two way radios and sat navs, You don't look at a cigg while you smoke or have your hand off the wheel any longer than the above samples. Imagine how calm the smokers would be in traffic without their fix, I wouldn't like to cross their path anyway. How many lives do you all think would be saved or lost if such a ban came in ?
If you don't want people smoking in the car, tell them not to do it. People who smoke with children in the car are unthinking idiots IMO. Changing the law won't change the person. Ok it might save some children from some second hand smoke but that is all. Personally I don't want to live in a nanny state, although it feels like that's what Ireland is becoming. Individuality still matters to me and I neither want, nor expect others to conform to my views.....except ban chewing gum on the street of Dublin!