Call for ban on smoking in cars with kids

[PrincessBandit]

I get sick of seeing smokers biffing their cigarettes out the window instead of using their own ashtray. PRICKS.

Next person I see do that in peak hour traffic will end up with the bloody thing coming back through their window.

A number of years ago a friend of mine was caught on the motorway by a ciggie butt tossed out the window of a car he was riding behind and it landed on his jacket. He couldn't swat it off and he was starting to panic as the fabric was starting to smoulder. Managed to get it off before the situation got worse. He was not a happy chappy!!

[Brooke]

I must admit that smoking in a car with Kids does suck but what are they going to do about it. They go and enforce an anti-smaking bill to try and stop child abuse but yet children still end up dying, yeah that worked didn't it!

[1 Free Man]

I must admit that smoking in a car with Kids does suck but what are they going to do about it. They go and enforce an anti-smaking bill to try and stop child abuse but yet children still end up dying, yeah that worked didn't it!

They could put those electronic chip thingies in the necks of all smokers that drive.
They stopped dogs biting people didn't they.??
Well didn't they. ???

[Toaster]

I must admit that smoking in a car with Kids does suck but what are they going to do about it. They go and enforce an anti-smaking bill to try and stop child abuse but yet children still end up dying, yeah that worked didn't it!

I remember growing up in a house filled with a layer of smoke. My clothes must have stunk of cigarettes at school.

I also remember sitting in the back seat of the cramped family car with watering eyes because of the smoke.

For the sake of kids (like I was) I could only hope something could change for those that cannot change the situation themselves.

17 years of passive smoking will not have served me well.

[Toaster]

A number of years ago a friend of mine was caught on the motorway by a ciggie butt tossed out the window of a car he was riding behind and it landed on his jacket. He couldn't swat it off and he was starting to panic as the fabric was starting to smoulder. Managed to get it off before the situation got worse. He was not a happy chappy!!

Much like a wasp trapped inside the visor!

[MSTRS:Me]

They could put those electronic chip thingies in the necks of all smokers that drive.
They stopped dogs biting people didn't they.??
Well didn't they. ???

And in the necks of those holier-than-thou non-smokers that want to tell me what to do in my own space.

[nodrog:Me]

Who's done more research than the good people at the American Tobacco Industry? They say its harmless. Why would they lie? If you're dead, you can't smoke.

[Badjelly]

Better to educate and reinforce with smokers that the car is not the place to do it (there's already an ad to that effect on TV).

You know, some people think that the "educating" people is not a proper function of the Government.

[Badjelly]

I get sick of seeing smokers biffing their cigarettes out the window instead of using their own ashtray. PRICKS.

Burn them!

[1 Free Man]

And in the necks of those holier-than-thou non-smokers that want to tell me what to do in my own space.

Don't get ya knikers in a knot buddy. I was a smoker for 35 years + . Far be it for me to tell you what to do in your own space. Go and smoke yourself to death see if I care.. I don't give a flying fuck really.

[Beemer]

I'd be happy if they banned smoking full stop - or kids for that matter.

[Blossom]

A number of years ago a friend of mine was caught on the motorway by a ciggie butt tossed out the window of a car he was riding behind and it landed on his jacket. He couldn't swat it off and he was starting to panic as the fabric was starting to smoulder. Managed to get it off before the situation got worse. He was not a happy chappy!!

And one has to wonder how many smokers who smoke in their cars actually use their ashtrays judging by the ammount of times we see butts thrown out the window.

Your mate is certainly not the only one this has happened to either.. a wee 4mth old got hurt recently by someone biffing a butt out their window.
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[Madness]

Here is an example of why governments shouldn't fuck with smokers.

That's not smoke btw, it's tear gas.

[Sparrowhawk]

The news last night stated that 96% of smokers agreed with a ban of smoking in cars.

Ok then (and let's assume for a minute that the media are correct for once), here's what I don't understand:

LOL! Let's remember that Assumption makes a Ass out of You and Umption.

Most smokers I know light a smoke right after they turn the engine on. Me included.

Yes I smoke. Yes, I smoked in my car (when I had one). Ooooh, I must be bad. Hang on, there were no kids in that car... the child seats didn't fit in it.

Bit hard now, haven't worked out how to light a smoke while riding the bike!

Seriously though, someone recently proposed a good idea. Currently, if you're trying to give up smoking, you'll be going fine. As long as you don't think about it. Until you need petrol. So you wander up to the counter to pay for your gas, and right there is a WHOLE WALL OF FUCKING SMOKES!!!! AARGH I NEED ONE!!! (I think you get the message). Someone recently said that the smokes will have to be out of sight (therefore out of mind). Finally, a good idea.