RE: UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sun, 13 May 2007, David Harley wrote:

> > Wow. The UK really _is_ The Nanny State. :-)
>
> Indeed. We also suffer such affronts to the freedom of the individual as
> speed limits, monitoring alcohol intake, one-way streets and insistence on
> taking driving tests. 
>
> Leaving aside issues like the distracting effects of lighting cigarettes and
> 30-second coughing fits, I'd be fascinated to know what rational
> justification (apart from the tobacco industry's right to profit, the
> government's to tax, and the individual's right to self harm) for legalizing
> this particular addiction at all. 

Same justification as for legalising cannabis, cocaine and heroin. 
 
> (No, I don't smoke, but I used to, and I didn't understand it then, either.)

It's easy for me, I never started, couldn't see the point.

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