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Only as many grounds as there are for banning car radios. Well, unless you have controls on the wheel. But come off it, as if most people drive with both hands on the wheel all the time, or even most of the time.
If you can't drive a car with two squabling kids in the back a large wet dog next to you fumbling for cd's off the floor to put in the player ...you shouldn't be driving.
If you can only drive safely with two hands firmly on the wheel at all times and your eyes glued to the windscreen ...time you got on your bike.
I'd put money on it that being stupid caused far more crashes than smoking has ...being a crap driver etc.
Did you know that nicotine aids concentration?
Most truck drivers now have a press down twirly top ash tray under the seat or somewhere else in the cab to avoid pulling over onto the hard shoulder for a fag every half hour.
Has the propaganda started yet ...90% of all traffic accidents caused by smoking ...or lighting up ...or disposing of dog end?
Rubbish.
If you aint capable of doing other things whilst driving ...do us all a favour and stop driving.
I'm also saying that I wouldn't be angered if the guidance was changed.
Smoking is a evil, filthy habit. There aren't many products designed to get you addicted, which offer no health benefits what so ever and which are extremely likely to ultimately kill you.
It's impossible to make tha act illegal, but that doesn't mean that we cannot mke it as hard as possible.
There's the rub. The point is, we don't need a specific law. The law (by that I mean all laws) cannot legislate against every single eventuality. Thus if you're driving along and your smoking is causing you to drive without due care and attention, then you are in breach of that law. It's all about how a court (or magistrate in this case) would interpret it.
We don't need a specific law against it as the one we have does just fine. It's all about interpretation.
It seems completely unnecessary in their eyes, a waste of money and health. Even kids and teenagers would pull faces at the thought of smoking.