Re: Smoking


"topper" <topper4125@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The thing that I have noticed is that the people who do toss them out the
> window are the same people that have the ashtray so full of butts and
> ashes that they can't use them without starting a cotton fire (which
> smells god awful).
>
> The people that REALLY piss me off, and I'm sure a lot of people here have
> seen this one, are the ones that are parked at a truck stop, roll the
> window down and dump the ashtray out the window, or do it while going down
> the highway.

Most (the stupid ones) people here wait until they're stopped at a traffic
light or parked somewhere before dumping their ashtrays.

> It's not hard to empty the ashtray either while fueling or parked in a
> lot. I smoke, and empty my ashtray every time I fuel, it never gets so
> full that i can't use it, and I've been doing it that way so long, that I
> don't even think about it anymore... its just a part of fueling.
>
> As far as the safety issue with smoking... I don't buy it. Using the
> cellphone is FAR more distracting. http://tinyurl.com/86hmd (A study that
> cellphone distraction is worse the driving drunk.

This I find difficult to believe. A phone conversation while using a
handsfree device is no different than carrying on a conversation with people
in the vehicle.

Brian


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