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70% of those surveyed in Britain, thought that smoking behind the wheel while driving was dangerous and should be banned in all vehicles.
I definately agree, what do you think?
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Hi everyone! My name is Jen and i am super clumsy! Anything that is within a 10 metre radius of me, i can almost guaruntee i will run into it (even door frames!. I play a lot of sport and tend to spend a lot of time on the ground! I love anything relating to anatomy or physiology or anything medical and my favourite telly show is All Saints. I am currently at Deakin University studying a combined degree of Nursing and Applied Science (psychology) - and absolutely loving it! :)
yes! doubly so if there are children in the car.
Definitely needs to be banned! The worst I have seen is someone going to throw the still lit butt out the window -only the window wasn’t down. Picture a driver with a burning cigarette butt bouncing around their lap while driving and you have someone truly distracted!!
Just because 70% of people surveyed in Britain believe that Black is White doesn’t make it true. Scientific research has shown that smoking is a common cause of cancer and that financial statistics are showing that it is costing all of us a great deal of money treating smokers with the cancers and respiratory diseases associated with inhaling the toxin in the smoke.
yes it may indeed be very expensive to cure all those already affected, but if we can intervene now and reduce the number of people sucking on cancer sticks, then we wont have to waste this kind of money in generations to come.
However, I wasnt actually debating whether smoking should be banned all together, just the fact that it poses a high risk to drivers and people on the road.
Doing anything whilst driving is dangerous, and a hazard not only to the occupant of the offending vehicle, but also to all the other road users. Even something as simple as a cigarette can be distracting and occupies valuable dexterity which is required for driving, especially in situations when fast manouvres and quick turns are required.
Smoking - fullstop - is a disgrace. If we banned it totally, we wouldn’t have so many sick and dysfunctional people in this world. Tell me - what’s one benefit from smoking … blowing magic smoke rings??
I’m in two minds about this. If you’re driving in central Melbourne then any small thing can distract you enough to cause an accident. This would include smoking, drinking, eating, applying make-up, changing a cd, using a phone, etc. But away from the city you might be on a straight road with no other vehicles in sight for 2 ks in any direction. 70% of Brits probably think its dangerous because they never experience the latter situation, their roads are always crowded.
Medical research has found that smoking affects the reaction time of the pupils to recover when they shrink when hit by the lights of an oncoming car at night. In a non smoker they come back to normal size almost immediately, but when affected by the drugs in cigarettes its takes much longer for them to recover, and this is when you get the “unexplained” single car running off the road crash. This has been known for years, back in the 1960s the USAF stopped pilots from smoking 12 hours before flying night missions because of the effect on their sight. Add in the additional problem that most smokers also drink, then you literally do have “blind drunk” drivers. Many people also have a condition known as “night blindness” where they cannot see well at night at the best of times, add smoking and they really are driving blind. Why won’t the Pollies act???? because it’s all too hard and they want the smokers tax money!!!!!
I agree, smoking in cars should be outlawed. I find the majority don’t use their Ashtrays that are in the car but fling it out the window. I don’t think you will be able to fully ban it tho. But a ban on the drivers would be fantastic. I don’t smoke, but I have often seen drivers with a smoke in one hand while trying to cling onto the steering wheel while talking on their mobile phones using the other hand. No matter what bans we bring in, there will be people who won’t listen and do it anyway, they only get a slap on the wrist anyway.