So let me get this right - you think that it's because I don't smoke that I'm under some illusion that the people I see smoking and failing to drive properly demonstrate some correlation between the two facts?markie said:I must say I can tell you don't smoke, if you think smoking a tab makes your awearness go AWOL
That seems a bizarre point of view. You regard smokers, who have a vested interest in permitting smoking whilst driving, and in arguing against a law that would prohibit it, as having a rational point of view about this, whereas you think that I'm in some way biased, and not thinking rationally, because I don't smoke?
Again with the phone thing. I've never said that my phone doesn't distract me - it does, which is why I do my best to limit my use of it, and also why I approve of the penalties levied on drivers who drive and use a non-hands-free handset.So when your on your phone ( hands free ) chatting away to an cilent reguarding this and that, are you totally focused on the road a head, is your mind on your driving only.
How does me being a [relatively] normal, and fallible, human being, invalidate my observations of the vast quantities of smokers who display glaring lapses of concentration, and how does the fact that you smoke qualify your observations to be more valid?
I've never said that my views are representative of any other non-smoker. Are you saying that your views, or ninebob's, are representative of other smokers?Thats what I said ( smokers and no-smokers )