Stopping children smoking in their cars has to be a good thing I suppose, unless I’ve misunderstood this whole issue completely.
Now a week is a long time in politics and in the world of professional blogging it is something of a lifetime.
So following on from last week's moan where the politicians' lack of driving experience and empathy with the modern day motorist can only cause problems, as of last night it seems that the large majority of them want to poke their noses into what you do in your car every day.
Telling people what to do is a speciality of government. That’s what they do. If they have to tell people not to smoke in the same space as their children then people really are quite stupid.
If people can’t be trusted to make a lifestyle choice, why not ban smoking?
Isn’t holding a mobile phone to your ear while steering your way through life banned? I see berks in vans and cars doing that all day long, so how is that restriction going then? Not very well obviously.
Oh and I presume it is okay to smoke e-cigs in your car with kids aboard? The cops won’t know it isn't a real cigarette until they have deployed the stinger and brought the MPV to a halt.
I notice in popular tabloid newspapers that the celebrity parent of a small child has been told off by a PCSO for leaving the kid in a locked car while they popped into a shop.
Complicated isn’t it? The state does seem unduly interested in what goes on in our motor cars. But surely an Englishman’s (or Irishman's, Scotsman's, or Welshman's – delete as appropriate) car is their wheeled castle?
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I'm not old enough to
Whether or not these laws are enforced or not (and they are because I know plenty of my parents' friends who are still getting caught out), the fact that they are illegal has made them socially unacceptable to the point where neither I nor most of my friends would not consider driving whilst drunk, nor driving without my seatbelt on. To ban smoking with children in the car whilst at the same time banging into people's minds that it is harmful to children, will hopefully stigmatise the practice to the point it is socially frowned upon.
But then I don't think any parent should be allowed to smoke in front of their kids, regardless of where they are.
Our Castles on wheels
This may sound like a daft question but there has already been a case of a man who was killed by the police using his tazzor after the man had poured petrol over himself in this Country and many other tazzor related deaths.
It's about time the Police in this Country operated within the law and used a bit of common sense and then we might see less deaths of people in police custody.
Motorists are smokers too..
Many motorists are morons who own cars, in the same way that many MPs are morons who got elected to parliament. Making it illegal will induce some to excercise restraint, but the worst offenders simply will not give a sh!t.
Volvo........!
Do you remember Volvo's idea of an Alco Key?,wasn't a success was it?,but,how about Smoke detectors for Cigarettes?,what pit falls can you name?