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ainst smoking in car in general even with the windows being opened one could legitimately ask shouldn t one ban smoking in public in general if the ban is against smoking in cars with windows closed only then bow about banning smoking in houses where all the windows are closed as well this is highly intrusive into the private lives of people reply 7 alan loughlin march 24 2010 at 14 54 a big yes for certain the smoking ban has been a huge huge success we can now go out for a drink or a meal banning smoking in cars is a logical move besides the safety aspect it seems illogical to ban hand held phones but allow a hand held lighted cigarrete also the people especially children are being poisoned in an enclosed area this ban needs doing soon also i believe a ban on smoking in town centres would be a good idea reply 8 steve march 24 2010 at 14 55 more nanny state yet these same people have no problem turning around and telling at their kids or making phone calls while they drive or applying makeup as they drive smoking is not a distraction this is simply nanny staters trying to go further down the road to ban something they don t like cigarettes if it s limited to smoking with children in the car then i can understand more of an argument for it as i don t know why people would smoke around their kids but if they want to be stupid then they should be able to are we to ban people from feeding their kids red meat it s bad for people what about all the parents who have obese children should the parents be forbidden from allowing their kids be obese obesity in a person is far worse than any potential harm from second hand smoke reply 9 john in salem march 24 2010 at 15 04 i didn t smoke in the car or in the house while raising my daughter for exactly that reason after she was on her on own i still didn t smoke in the house but it did become a regular part of my driving routine when i was alone i finally quit 3 months ago after 40 some years and it has taken that long to get the smell out of my car reply 10 katharina march 24 2010 at 18 27 congrats on giving up it seems you were a very responsible smoking dad anyway but it s good to hear you gave up anyway and it will save you a lot of money too reply 11 peter gizzi uk march 24 2010 at 15 07 i do not drive but do smoke and get enormous pleasure from it i have told my gp if i get lung cancer i want to be allowed to die i never smoke in other people s cars on public transport etc banning smoking in cars seems pointless as like mobile phones people will still do it and who will stop them in the south east of the uk tobacco sales have increased as people are staying at home to drink and smoke if they have children they will also be exposed the only answer is to make tobacco illegal thanks to our new high speed train service in the south east i can now do a day trip to brussels and bring back enough tobacco to last me many months this i did last week and saved 250 00p overall including the cost of the trip this is legal reply 12 t march 24 2010 at 15 17 when you smok you re doing a drug nicotine you re also exposing others around you to that drug which means you re endangering your health and their health so yes imo it should be banned if you want to do a drug and risk killing yourself that s one thing but you don t have the right to endanger others reply 13 alan march 24 2010 at 15 24 why is the present ban on smoking in lorries and vans not enforced reply 14 julie p march 24 2010 at 15 26 as a former smoker i object this isn t really about smoking in a car if it were reasons sited would include that smoking while driving is distracting for the driver since the driver has to look away from the road even for an instant to take a poof to light up or fish the cigarette out of the pack it would also be sited that smoking while driving is dangerous for others on the road since the driver has to take one hand off the wheel to smoke the driver does not have full control of the car while in the act of smoking those are the reasons given to me by a car insurance company as to why they charge smokers more for insurance than non smokers let s get real the give away is the government is hiding behind children to force smokers to conform to a standard the government deems acceptable if it really were about the children as they claim then why not just take children away from smokers altogether afterall children are exposed to cigarette smoke in the home and elsewhere really sometimes government can be so transparent reply 15 chris in concord march 24 2010 at 15 29 if there is a child or children in the car then yes it should be against the law reply 16 luci smith march 24 2010 at 15 30 i would really prefer a ban on cars especially anything that emits diesel fumes i am not a realist just a cyclist reply 17 cabe uk march 24 2010 at 15 32 it s a known fact for many years now that passive smoking causes cancer just stand live work next to a smoker to get cancer so not sure what the fuss is about non smokers will say smoking should not be allowed anywhere and it should be taxed to the hilt smokers will say its a free world and if i want to kill myself then i should be allowed to do so blah blah blah but there lies the crux i gave up smoking over 20 years ago but if a smoker is near me then i will cringe at having to breathe in the disgusting dirty junk thats being expelled from the inside of their bodies into my air space their lungs don t even want this cr p so why should i have to suffer it and i am just a passer by so it s totally understandable that all those vulnerable people like children etc who can t get away and have to live with smokers full time and who don t stand a chance should be protected i would say though that if smokers want to smoke in their own car then they should but perhaps only when no children are present if they pass any bills on this it would be good but a bit daft as well how do you control smokers smoking infront of their children in their own homes then reply 18 jens march 24 2010 at 17 05 shouw me one conclusive study in a peer reviewed journal that shows without any doubt that passive some causes cancer there is plenty of evidence that it affects respiartory problems diseases blood pressure etc but cancer no reply 19 tara ballance montreal canada march 25 2010 at 17 40 jens according to the us national cancer institite some research suggests that secondhand smoke may increase the risk of breast cancer nasal sinus cavity cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer in adults and leukemia lymphoma and brain tumors in children additional research is needed to learn whether a link exists between secondhand smoke exposure and these cancers http www cancer gov cancertopics factsheet tobacco ets certainly not conclusive but highly suggestive 20 steve march 24 2010 at 15 34 why is any amount of alcohol and driving permitted would you allow someone to tie an arm behind their back and drive one drop of booze affects your abilities even if you are below the legal limit what causes more deaths deaths related to alcohol and driving or second hand smoke reply 21 steve march 24 2010 at 15 43 why are parents allowed to have two drinks and drive their kids does that alcohol make their driving abilities better or worse reply 22 taratate march 24 2010 at 15 43 i do not disagree with the concept of protecting children in this way but i strongly disagree with such private space regulations my own experience as a social smoker is that the etiquette of smoking has radically changed in recent years i do not know many people who would actually even smoke around children in general let alone in a confined space but government get out of my car if smoking is sooo dangerous why doesnt the govt grow a pair and make it illegal reply 23 glenn l march 24 2010 at 16 05 smoking has become socially unacceptable and the best known discouragement is shunning so i say yes ban it and it makes it more unacceptable you can t stop it but you can set it up as a dangerous unhealthy habit that costs society a lot of directly and indirectly in terms of cancer treatment and like cell phone use it contributes to distracted driving ps i used to be a smoker reply 24 elias march 24 2010 at 16 07 a smokers freedom to smoke in his own car is entirely up to him to suggest banning smoking in ones own car is rediculas reply 25 guyfromthewest march 24 2010 at 17 02 i agrae it is vury rediculas reply 26 bert march 24 2010 at 16 13 if the smoker is single and non smokers will never enter into his car i say go for it smoke yourself into oblivion that is unless the driver distraction argument is made my very first memory of flying was a trans atlantic flight my family took when i was 4 years olf all i remember about that long flight was being deathly ill the entire time literally throwing up then many years later i got into an elevator lift in which i smelled exactly the same revolting odor that made me throw up on that flight guess what it was cigarette smke evidently from the same brand in that closed environment it made me flash back to the flight moral of the story being i have zero sympathy for smokers even boozers don t quite invade other people s space as much as smokers can and do reply 27 tracy in portland or march 24 2010 at 16 15 i think smoking in the car is a fantastic idea think of it this way these parents are ignorant and have little or no basic protectiveness for their offspring not even the same care that say an alligator would have for it s young speaking from an evolutionary perspective it is helping to eliminate their genes reply 28 brinda march 24 2010 at 16 33 lets forget the fact that smoking will slowly kill ur lungs and effect people around you in the same way but does smoking while driving not make it multitasking while driving okie that is a little dramatic but it is still a distraction what if the cigarette slips and falls and the driver is distracted and if you have a passenger of any kind then its an absolute nono not worth the risk help us help you so please lets ban it reply 29 steve march 24 2010 at 16 45 cars cause far worse pollution than the smoking does why not ban the cars when i lived in london just from walking on the streets i would get black soot on the inside of my nose because the air was so filthy yet the nanny staters want to ban smoking but not the actual problem reply 30 bert march 24 2010 at 17 38 i ll bet that the smoke you inhale while sitting in a car is far more intense i e dense than the exhaust you are inhaling from your own and other cars measured in say particulates per liter reply 31 david price uk march 24 2010 at 18 20 bert there are more toxins in exaust fumes than any cigarette 32 david price uk march 24 2010 at 16 49 one has to take a hand off the steering wheel in order to smoke and may lose control of the vehicle is a childish argument the same can be said of gear changing rear view adjusment blowing your nose or fiddling with radio perhaps we should all be made to drive automatics to ban smoking in private cars is a ban on civil liberties i don t want to breath your secondhand smoke but here you are take a lung full of my exaust fumes total nonsense reply 33 pancha chandra march 24 2010 at 17 15 smoking in the car should be banned subjecting passengers to second hand smoke is simply not on passive smoking could lead to cancer or other respiratory health problems if one wants to impair one s own health by smoking that is a problem in itself but subjecting others to carcinogens should be strictly prohibited people who want to smoke should go to designated areas they should not endanger the lives of others as numerous studies have shown that passive smoking leads to cancer or respiratory problems so smokers show some consideration to your fellow human beings reply 34 alan in az march 24 2010 at 17 16 tracy i agree with the herd culling perspective in this modern day with all the up to date info we have it should be a no brainer for most parents i wish my parents would have had the scientific knowledge that we have today after my father died when i was eleven 40 years ago my mother eventually quit smoking but 12 years of growing up with 2 chain smokers really screwed up my lungs and have been and will continue to be a detriment to my health they did improve in my later teens as i became active in sports and worked at my overall health trough training but it doesn t take much to end up with a respiratory infection luckily i live in the dry desert and that helps allot parents around the world you don t need a law to keep you from being stupid reply 35 nora march 24 2010 at 17 42 don t smoke in a car with kids in it simple leave the rest of the population alone the cars and the gas they run on cause more pain juvenile asthma death and environmental problems than the smokers who drive some of them they can t smoke in the park or in a bar or restaurant at least let them have a drag on a drug that increases mental focus and decreases psychotic reactions to stress reply 36 andrew in australia march 24 2010 at 17 45 anything that distracts a driver whilst driving is a problem the fact that this week alone i have nearly been rammed by 3 people who were smoking and had only one hand on the wheel at the time doesn t colour my perception intoxication or distraction has the same effect of course these days it is everyone s right to do what they feel when they feel despite it impacting on others many times fatally but that is the nature of the selfish attitude exhibited these days whether you are texting rebuilding your cd collection eating drinking reading the newspaper building your model of the cutty sark or smoking it takes your attention of the road fine if you want to wrap yourself around a pole in a single person rtc but not when you wipe out some poor unfortunate who just wanted to get to where they were going reply 37 jaime saldarriaga march 24 2010 at 18 01 yes i think smoking in cars should be banned if you go by yourself with no company you decide not to drive in optimal conditions of safety risking your own personal safety and also the safety of other people outside your car that should be enough to be considered reply 38 ibrahim in uk march 24 2010 at 18 02 smoking inside your stationary vehicle is probably like smoking inside your own property your own business it might be a driving hazard if you smoke while driving or eat and drink while driving or play the flute while driving i m all for a ban on addictive drugs in cancer sticks and if that s what people think is best for the nation s health then go ahead and do it but this approach of finding peculiar excuses for banning smoking in certain circumstances just looks silly reply 39 nora march 24 2010 at 18 24 since studies show that left handed people are better at multi tasking perhaps we should only allow left handers to smoke and drive reply 40 christian march 24 2010 at 18 28 i am all for banning smoking in 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