Smoking While Driving: Not a Good Idea ?

[SaturnFan]

ONTARIO - A man and another driver are both lucky to be alive after a dropped a cigarette resulted in a head-on crash into an oncoming vehicle.

The crash happened (Sat July 31) around 2:30 pm in ..... , on Highway .., near ..... Road.

Police say the 21 year old driver of a car had dropped his cigarette onto the floor of his car and drifted out of his lane as he leaned down to retrieve it.

The man had to be cut from his vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle, a pickup truck, received non-life threatening injuries.

There's no word on charges.

 

[afterhours]

I also think that ANYONE who smokes should simply be denied any publicly funded treatment for lung cancer.

that'd be pretty good

I wonder if they would strike back or anything, or if that would just go through without much outrage

 

[Gentle Ben]

Had similar thing happen to me many years ago. Got rear ended by a guy that had dropped his Cig.. I could see him in my rear view mirror that he wasn't going to stop. I started to accelerate from my stopped position (making a left turn) I still got hit, just not as bad as if I was totally stopped.
He told the cop he was changing the station o his radio. He got charged with Careless

 

[afterhours]

They could, but I suspect they'd be a bit late to collect.

Now that I think of it, they would have a great argument. They could say that they paid an extra health care premium to cover their eventual health care costs by the outrageous rate of legal taxation on a product the very government who is denying the expense, says is legal and taxable.

it's legal and taxable in a bunch of countries where you get no OHIP to pay for treatments.
there is a room for argument that voluntary consumption of a drug should make one ineligible for public funding

I'd guess that the real problem with this proposition is that it does not immediately presents an opportunity for politicians to steal or make money

 

[Moraff]

I also think that ANYONE who smokes should simply be denied any publicly funded treatment for lung cancer.

yup and while we're at it... anyone who drinks alcohol, eats unhealthy food, or doesn't exercise properly should also be denied treatment if they suffer from maladies related to that lifestyle right?

 

[Moraff]

My very simplistic I agree that drinkers shouldn't get liver transplants.

The other arguments have merit but let's stick to ONE issue. Smoking. An outright stupid practice.

Certainly not disagreeing with you there, but if you are going to deny health care to people using one type of unhealthy - but legal - substance you have to add the others in too.