BMA suggesting smoking to be banned in cars..

[chris watton]

Our own cars, even if we're on our own, according to the news I just heard (not sure if there's any internet links yet).

Really, hasn't the UK got much bigger problems that need dealing with?

[chris watton]

Diderot said:

If it stops the moronic bds flicking butts into the road as if it were an ashtray or blowing their stinking smoke out of the window right into car or its vent system when in traffic, then it's a damn good thing IMO.

But the people selfish enough to do that will ignore the ban anyway - I suspect that the majority of considerate smokers, who would, however reluctantly abide by the ban, do not throw their stubs out of the car window. When I smiked, I used to but the end out and put it back into the packet, and empty the packet once a bin was spotted. Am sure I'm not the only one who does/did this.

[chris watton]

dickymint said:

"How did the “23 times more toxic” myth turn into fact?', MacKenzie and Freeman showed that the "fact" was entirely without scientific evidence and stemmed from a, obscure quote in a local newspaper in 1998"


You couldn't make it up....oh wait - they did!

I mentioned in another thread that, to get the ‘Video nasties’ banned in the early ‘80’s, the government commissioned a report to see what effect they had on kids. The report concluded that an astonishing 40% had been ‘exposed’ to these films. The reality was quite different. It has emerged that, out of the hundreds of kids questioned when researching, only THREE said that they had seen them – and even then, that was spurious, as they mentioned films that never existed. But because they watched so many, that 3% translated into “40% of children in the UK watch video nasties” – and that was the ‘shocking’ headline in all the papers, and based on that lie, they were banned and some video shop owners even got sent to prison!

As soon as the 'shocking' headline gets published, their work is done.

Edited by chris watton on Thursday 17th November 09:37