subject: Smoking While Driving [print this page] Smoking While Driving Smoking While Driving
Driving is a risky business; with over twenty six million drivers on the road its more than likely you will have an accident in your driving life.
But if you are a smoker you are far more likely to crash. A massive forty five percent of drivers have had accidents, close shaves and breaks in their concentration due to smoking, trying to light a cigarette or find a lighter.
The Highway Code states that smoking in the car is an action that police officers can deem as not being in proper control of the car' and can prosecute for.
It's a dangerous habit, with eighty percent of motorists admitting that they have at one time or another taken their hands off the wheel to light a cigarette, and seventy five percent of drivers feel that even when driving at speed, it is ok to smoke when driving on the motorway.
Forty five percent of drivers admit to throwing their cigarette butt out of the window, which is a hazard if the spark isn't out completely.
Eighty percent of drivers say that they are more likely to light up when driving if they are stressed out. Men are the more defiant sex when it comes to smoking in the car, with forty eight percent saying they would carry on smoking in their car, regardless of if they faced police prosecution.
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