Do you smoke and drive?

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Just following on from the mobile phone thread - will any of you here admit to smoking and driving?

I don't smoke, so not an issue for me !

I used to.

Err, what's wrong with smoking whilst driving. Have I missed something?

dont smoke, drive or have a mobile so taht puts me right out in the cold.

I used to when I smoked, yes. Most smokers do.

To my mind if people aren't meant to be handling mobile phones whilst driving (which I agree with so don't start throwing stuff), I feel that driving with a lit cigarette and smoking is also wrong and just as dangerous. I wanted to see if the shock of considering driving and using a phone was the same as smoking... but I am guessing not!

I don't smoke, so it's not an issue for me, but I don't think it's anywhere near the same thing as using a mobile while you drive. You can at least keep your hands on the wheel for most of the time - which you can't when you're having a conversation on a hand-held mobile phone. Taking your hand off the wheel for long enough to take a drag on a cigarette is surely no more dangerous than taking your hand off the wheel to change gear or change a CD?

But then wouldn't driving and turning on the radio/inserting a tape/cd or having a drink of water be dangerous too?

And the fact that this thing is lit doesn't bother any of you in the slightest?

I don't smoke but I used to when younger. This sounds like another attack on smokers - does any one suggest people shouldn't rustle around in glove compartments for sweets when they drive? I don't think so...

thats a bit like saying do you eat sweets when you drive (yes) - I don't smoke but I don't see the problem in smoking whilst driving - although you wouldn't get me to be a passenger (cough, cough)

Why is it more dangerous to have a lit cigarette in a car than anywhere else, though?

snap JoolsToo

I did once have to tell a guy to put out his ciggy whilst he was filling up with petrol

vict17 great minds!

I'm not attacking anyone - I am genuinely interested about why it doesn't bother you.

For me, the thought of dropping something that is alight whilst driving would distract me, make me look to put it out etc, dropping a sweet wouldn't.

don't people chuck their dimps out the window?

Accidentally dropping... although chucking it out of the window is pretty nasty too

mm - see your point but just generally, smoking wouldn't, I think, distract you from the road which talking on a phone does.

There are many scenarios that COULD happen whilst your driving - dropping your fag is just one.

I smoke like a chimney, never undo windows, Lottie seems to love it. Nothing I like better than havin' a faggggg, while chatting on the phone to my mates, driving with my tunes blaring , oh and applying lip gloss using the rear view mirror to look in.

Thomcat!!! you sound just like me!!

I go against smoking while driving in a big way.! In my case because some stupid git of a driver flicked his still lit fag end out of his car, which then flew in thro the open window of our car, burning my son on his arm while a tiny babe in a backwards facing car seat (so I wasn't to see the fag end till my son starts screaming hysterically from pain and fear)!!!!!

Thomcat

Lol Thomcat!!!

This needed a bit of detensioning... I think I need to stop starting threads!

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