Smoking laws

Not sure, dog on dog crime is a jailable offences really

Possibly the drug addict is.....

But the pissing on war memorial, is not a jailable offence, only one punishment fits this crime

Well Davey I am sure that when these nosey parkers are finished with the cigarette industry and are then bored, they will no doubt move onto the harm drink does.

Or....the harm the car does.

Let people make their own minds up used to be a fantastic trait of the UK, until Nanny took over.

Might be a good idea then to stop driving as well....just in case you knock someone over. Can't take chances now can we?

Do not want to injure someone whilst out driving.

Or driving is actually useful... etc...

Driving is essential given the state of our public transport system and rail infrastructure. If the internal combustion engine were to be banned tomorrow then society would be in trouble - no food deliveries, many people unable to get to work etc. If smoking were to be banned tomorrow it would only affect smokers, not society as a whole.

Very true.

I have no interest in people smoking in their cars - apart from lighting up and such like which is a distraction from driving. And there are plenty of drivers out there barely managing to drive in a straight line as it is without any extra distractions. But the same applies to unwrapping sweets, fiddling with the satnav/cd player or (my personal bug-bear) putting make-up on.

But what really makes me angry is seeing an adult in a car puffing away with some poor kid in the back being slowly kippered by the smoke. There is no way that is acceptable. And opening the window isn't much help. Smoking in a vehicle that is carrying children shouldn't NEED to be banned - but if it was I would support it. And I'm not just pontificating here - both may parents smoked and us 3 kids lived in a fug of smelly smoke at home and in the car.

They did stop eventually - my Dad when it killed him, and my Mum when she was in here 70's (Thanks a bunch Mum!).

Thinking about it - the child will be in a child safety seat (more often than not), belted in and protected from danger. So why does the parent - for whom the safety and health of their child should be paramount - then light up? I don't get it.

Ban smoking whilst driving because it distracts the drivers attention?

Ok then if they do that then how about banning;

All sound systems /Singing in the vehicle

'Hands free' phone use whilst driving

Any Talking to / Distraction of the driver by passengers (just like on the buses)

Any manoever, whilst driving, which means not having both hands on the wheel to do it.
Changing gear or changing a cd / radio station is no different a distraction that lighting a fag.

Furthermore,

Install Tachographs linked to Police computers so we can't drive too much without a break and microphones to allow the police to 'tune' in to any car they may be following to see if they can nail you with a money spinning fine and points on your licence.

Where does it all end?

I stopped going to pubs when the smoking ban came in and now i couldn't care less if every pub and club in the UK closed up for good.

I find the sight of drunken people as disgusting in public as non smokers find the sight or smell of someone smoking.

I bet the majority of non smoking drinkers don't want all the pubs to close .
Why would any smoker support them though?

Would "linked to the VOSA computers" do ?
Trucks with digital tachos are [in effect] linked to the VOSA system.
Every 28 days there is a download of the detail held on the tacho.
Soon to be from a car ?

Its already banned

Dave_Notts