Ban smoking in cars, says British Medical Association

[Mr Blue]

HATE butt ends everywhere, should just get on the spot £50 fines IMO.

But if your car went up that's your fault for the fuel leak. Anything could have set that alight, can't blame the smoker if that had happened.

No not blaming them. Fuel line split in traffic but for them to throw it out the window like that added to my 'I hate ciggarettes' list 

[Jay]

Good thing ciggie ends can't set light to fuel 

[Dolly]

one quick search of google

"A smouldering cigarette end started the fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel which killed 39 people last year, the newspaper Le Parisien reported yesterday...
The cigarette end, thrown from another vehicle, entered the lorry's air intake, setting fire to the air filter and then the entire engine..."
--Electronic Telegraph (UK), May 6, 2000"

i wish all smokers a quick and unpleasant death 

[clipperjay]

I'm sure drink driving kills more, lets ban booze!

[Jay]

That's different, the air filter caught fire which caused all of that nastyness. A ciggie butt cannot light liquid petrol, FACT.

It can inadvertently cause horrible accidents such as that mentioned.

[Dolly]

the ignition temperature of the petrol is too high, i know this.

[AudiA8Quattro]

one quick search of google

"A smouldering cigarette end started the fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel which killed 39 people last year, the newspaper Le Parisien reported yesterday...
The cigarette end, thrown from another vehicle, entered the lorry's air intake, setting fire to the air filter and then the entire engine..."
--Electronic Telegraph (UK), May 6, 2000"

i wish all smokers a quick and unpleasant death 

The lorry's air intake is much bigger than a car. Also the fire only actually took hold when the lorry stopped.
Lots of air=poor condition for combustion 

[matg340]

one quick search of google

"A smouldering cigarette end started the fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel which killed 39 people last year, the newspaper Le Parisien reported yesterday...
The cigarette end, thrown from another vehicle, entered the lorry's air intake, setting fire to the air filter and then the entire engine..."
--Electronic Telegraph (UK), May 6, 2000"

i wish all smokers a quick and unpleasant death 

surely you mean a slow and unpleasent death ??

Funny thing is that all the folk on hear pissing and whinging about a butt end coming out the window , would soon be pissing and whinging if every smoker quit due to stupid laws thought up by non smokers because , how much tax do you think the gov earn from smokers ??

The easyest and probably only way to reclaim the tax lost would be at the pumps again.....by a feckin huge margin i would think

[Ant1981]

At times I can smell the ciggy through my heater vents from the car infront.

Had a seriously fuel leak in my engine bay once in grid locked traffic. Guy infront flicks a cig directly under my engine bay!!! 


I say ban smoking in cars because i dont like smoker smell. Stinks, not healthy, messy, cig butts on MY land thrown from cars piss me off.

Put the tax up on cigs and lower fuel costs!

HATE butt ends everywhere, should just get on the spot £50 fines IMO.

But if your car went up that's your fault for the fuel leak. Anything could have set that alight, can't blame the smoker if that had happened.

You could blame them, as they'd have been the source of ignition.

If a car develops a fault, that doesn't mean it's ok for others to make a situation more dangerous. The fault with the car still doesn't make it ok to throw burning embers into the roads.

[R32UK]

there is always someone else to blame 

your car develops a fault, its your problem. its as simple as that!