Will they ban smoking in your own car???
By reinydawn
@reinydawn (11643)
United States
September 8, 2008 9:50pm CST
Yes, this may seem pretty stupid at first glance, but I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I know that some places do ban smoking in your own car if you have children, but what I'm concerned about here is a little bit different. Now, I'm not saying this should happen, it's just an observation I've made.
Lately, over the past couple months, it's been very nice out so when I'm driving around in my car, I have my windows down to get some fresh air. And it never fails... I'll be driving behind someone that's smoking and ALSO has their windows down. On the highway, this isn't such a big deal, but around town when you're driving slower and a bit closer together, or at a stop light, this can be rather annoying. I don't smoke so I know I'm a bit more sensitive to the smell than smokers. What has been happening is that the person driving in front of me blows their cigarette smoke out their window and it comes into mine! Now my car smells like smoke (and I'm being subjected to 2nd-hand smoke). I don't allow people to smoke in my car at all, but now I'm noticing that I still have to smell the smoke while I'm driving.
Has anyone else noticed this before? I've never noticed it, but this summer it's really getting to me. I think the bans on smoking in most public places has made me a bit more sensitive to the smell...
4 responses
@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
14 Sep 08
I do not like second had smoke either but lets get real. Where are those people going to smoke? They cannot even smoke in their cars on some college campuses, in some apartments, so where can they smoke. Smoking is a disease and these people have a disease so do we put them all in hospitals? I know that is extreme.
My friend has COPD from smoking but she is addicted. She is afraid to quit because of how she feels when she is withdrawing. I can understand that. I feel when I go to her home I should not say anything about her smoking. She smokes outside when she is at my home. She stands down wind and is very careful not to put me in harms way. I appreciate it. Now when she is in her car she cannot help it if she is blowing smoke into your car. If she could she would.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
15 Sep 08
NO, I'm not saying they should do this, it's just that with all the other bans on smoking I wouldn't be surprised if it came up. I've grown up around smoking and for the most part it doesn't bother me. This summer though, for some stupid reason I've just noticed this a lot. It could have been happening before and I never noticed it.
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@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
20 Sep 08
I think with a new car the vent system is better. I never notice it until I got the car we have now.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
22 Sep 08
If I have my windows open the smoke comes right in. If I have the A/C on or something I don't really notice it because I have an air filter in there. I just like fresh air better than A/C...
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@churchofphilosophy (86)
• United States
20 Sep 08
I hope they don't ban smoking in you own car, I live in Utah and they have ban smoking in public place's and at my work they have ban smoking even in your car, you have to drive off grounds to have a smoke.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
22 Sep 08
I think the only places around here where you can't smoke in your car is school property. The teachers have to leave the grounds to smoke.
@krissh4all (269)
• China
9 Sep 08
hey friend..i also has not realize this..!!
by d way u r right..!!
keep lotting 
@seraj143 (75)
• India
9 Sep 08
Hey guys, I think this would be quite annoying to me if I were not allowed to smoke in my own car and a ban is imposed on the same, this situation would be quite embracing for me. As I cant concentrate on driving without smoking.In my opinion those who are sensitive to smoke should specify to the smoker of the same rather than getting victimized for the same.
As in the discussion mentioned regarding 2nd hand smoke or passive smoking I don't think it to be much different from the smoke that you would receive by lowering of the window glass on the roads polluted with smoke from the vehicles and I don't think that it would be more toxic than the emissions that you inhale on the roads and at the traffic lights.
Secondly If someone is sensitive towards smoke, he should not inhibit others from the same. Like you move by your car, and I object you telling that your car produces smoke which is intolerable to me and I go nexus of the same so you move by walking and force a ban on you of driving car, how would you feel. I think humans are born free so don't impose ban on them.Thanks alot.
