yeah point being im a selfish ****? i blow smoke in peoples faces all day long......:bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling:

Are you calling me a ******???? I am quite capable of driving my car without crashing whilst looking for a lighter Ben!

I think you'll find banararama started the insulting other members first

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No it isnt, the vast majority of cancers claimed to be caused by smoking like lung cancer etc are relatively fast acting, by the time the patient is diagnosed its more often than not too late for any effective treatment.

I dont smoke but I am not fascist enough to inflict my wishes on those who want to. I agree with the ban on smoking in enclosed spaces wherever there are or even likely to be non smokers however I fail to see how a ban on smoking in cars where children are transported can be enforced without a complete on smoking in any vehicles. Because then the government are removing a freedom from smokers who would never have kids in the car anyway, what measures are going to be introduced to compensate for this? Smokers only pulling places on all roads? Guaranteed smokers only car parking areas?

And you still havent accepted that the only reason the Government doesnt ban it outright is because it brings into Treasury coffers more revenue than it costs. If it created a negative costing to the Health Service the government would have not only a moral duty of care but a fiscal duty to ban it outright, however its a nice little earner.

A bus driver started smoking once. There were babies and children on that bus, yet he thought it would be okay for him to light up while we were waiting in a traffic jam. Needless to say, he got an ear full.

That's illegal, well it is here anyway

yeah well its bad if you light up in a bus or taxi
but in your OWN car ..smoke all ya like

Most people arent its like talking on a phone or a girl wearing make up.

Most of us can ( i only talk on the phone )..

But some cant hence why i get some guy almost going into me because hes lighting a cigarette.

Oh yeah so using the phone is fine right:/ just wait until you end up in a car crash.

Thats what im saying!!!!

If phoning someone is banned in cars..
Then so should smoking and applying make up as all 3..

Make people take their eyes off the road and concentrate on something else..

And thanks twilight.

I know! Why doesnt the government tell us our bedtime too? Obviously we cant think for ourselves

And how exactly does this get enforced?

I smoke in my own car, people who don't like it don't come in. Simple, I don't force anyone. And I always ask if I can smoke if I ever get in someone's car (except for my dad and friends because they're smokers too)

Yes, because it's just that simple isn't it...

We're not all clean-living, god-fearing, Ned Flanders wannabe's LT. Some of us like to make our own choices, and that includes the choices which affect our own health and well-being. I, personally, do not subject my children to any unnecessary health risks, nor do I smoke for that matter. I'm well aware of the dangers of smoking, and I still support the right of adults to smoke in their own car or their own home. If I didn't want to be subjected to second hand smoke, I'd not get in their car. Simple as that.

It's not quite as black/white as you make it out to be, so, do me a favour, and don't patronise me.