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Ban on smoking in cars ?



Leekbrookgull

Well-known member
Jul 14, 2005
16,386
Leek
Don't know if any other Nsc user has either heard or read reports some group is set to launch a campaign to ban smoking in cars. As a non-smoker i don't have a problem with someone smoking in a car if own their own. However should children be in the car i find it appauling behaviour. :rant: :bigwave:
 




British Bulldog

The great escape
Feb 6, 2006
10,974
One of these days people are going to run out of things to try & ban.
 




Gully

Monkey in a seagull suit.
Apr 24, 2004
16,812
Way out west
I objected to some fat cow driving a 4x4 almost running me off the road on a roundabout, whilst stuffing her face with a sandwich and paying little or no attention to any other road users...but I doubt if they are going to ban that!

The cops have a hard enough job trying to catch piss-heads behind the wheel and those who persist with using their mobile phones, don't see how you can ban tabbing in your own car, unless by lighting it you are not paying due care and attention.
 


Robot Chicken

Seriously?
Jul 5, 2003
13,154
Chicken World
I'm going to be smirking at this.

Mind you, the government has banned smacking and smoking already so maybe I should be worried...

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beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
36,025
...don't see how you can ban tabbing in your own car, unless by lighting it you are not paying due care and attention.

under which you are already commiting an offence if smoking is causing any problems. ffs, leave it along and let the police deal with real crimes that affect people, stop making it a crime to merely exist.
 




Stoo82

GEEZUS!
Jul 8, 2008
7,530
Hove
When will we realise (well you as i live abroud) that the UK is slowley drifting into a totaliterian state. Where i live at the moment, if the Government said they wanted to 'ban' something, the populus would just ignore it and say it was undemecratec.
 




TSB

Captain Hindsight
Jul 7, 2003
17,666
Lansdowne Place, Hove
When will we realise (well you as i live abroud) that the UK is slowley drifting into a totaliterian state. Where i live at the moment, if the Government said they wanted to 'ban' something, the populus would just ignore it and say it was undemecratec.

To be fair, the government have said nothing about this yet...
 












Brighton till i die

You havin' a bubble?
Jan 31, 2004
7,611
On the terraces!!
When will we realise (well you as i live abroud) that the UK is slowley drifting into a totaliterian state. Where i live at the moment, if the Government said they wanted to 'ban' something, the populus would just ignore it and say it was undemecratec.

as a wild guess i reckon you live in SPAIN!
 




Skint Gull

New member
Jul 27, 2003
2,980
Watchin the boats go by
Other than in your own home. All the smoking ban in pubs etc has done is force pubs to shut and smelly smokers to polute the fresh air outside of the pubs so that you cannot walk along the road without somebody blowing smoke in your face.

Slights exaggeration there old man. The fact that I can now go out for about 6 hours and come home not smelling of smoke, even though I would have walked past at least 10 groups of smokers tells me that it's a definate improvement.
 


Raises too much money in tax for a government to EVER ban it completely.

I thought it had been acknowledged that that was something of a fallacy? It's pretty much impossible to measure I suppose; you are never going to be able to accurately work out how much the NHS would save if people stopped smoking.

FWIW though, I can't see this ever taking off. Banning people from doing things in public places is one thing, but on their own property is something different entirely.
 


Curious Orange

Punxsatawney Phil
Jul 5, 2003
10,229
On NSC for over two decades...
Other than in your own home. All the smoking ban in pubs etc has done is force pubs to shut and smelly smokers to polute the fresh air outside of the pubs so that you cannot walk along the road without somebody blowing smoke in your face.

Its a bit like trying to go to a hospital - the Royal Surrey has banned smoking on site, which now means that every entrance to the site now has a cluster of smokers around it. Is it really too much trouble to provide a smoking area?
 








Jam The Man

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
8,226
South East North Lancing
Didn't this come in a couple of years ago?
 


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