Taxi Driver Online

Just wait and see how your weeknight takings drop! anyone up here who says its made no difference is lying !!!!!!

Thats all very well and the law is the law.
But the law says "enclosed public places" so stood outside your vehicle isnt an enclosed public place.

But don't you think it might be good if members of your family, and your good friends, live a little bit longer.

You tell me why it is right that a van or truck driver on his own in his own vehicle cannot smoke?

Because smoking kills, and ignorance isn't an excuse to allow it to carry on.

If you saw the driver stabbing himself with a knife would you also ignore it. Especially if it was a mate or a mum.

but to stop all us non smokers watching our family and friends dying of really horrible diseases.

I agree with all that, and it's going to be a nightmare to enforce.

But, as I said, I believe smoking should be banned full-stop. Not just to protect the smokers, and folks through passive smoking, but to stop all us non smokers watching our family and friends dying of really horrible diseases.

and non-smokers don't get really horrid diseases then? Aids, Hepatitis, Syphillis etc all cause vast expense on the NHS and can KILL; they are passed about without a smoke screen to alert you to the risks............. what comes next? Oh yes, in the interests of health the Government will ban shagging!

I can't wait to get my first ticket for smoking in my cab (ok so the one I got in Aberdeen is not included ) I'll ask for a Court hearing and fight it all the way. It is my right to smoke; I'm over 18 and aware of the health impllications. I am also well aware of the "health implications" of getting out of my cab, and walking away from it to have a smoke in the middle of the night - I'll take my chances and stay int he cab thank you very much.

And just to give all you anti-smokers something to think about; us smokes contribute an awful lot of money to the Government via the hugh taxes that we pay on our "habit". Now if we were all to take up the Governments incentives and QUIT we would all be entitled to FREE patches / gum etc, FREE counselling, PAID LEAVE from work to deal with the stress of giving up, FREE prescription drugs to ease the side effects and all this on top of the vast deficit in the amount of money that the Government gets from the TAX that none of us would be paying. I think in a long winded way I was trying to say - if we all give up smoking your tax bills will rise and the base rate will end up at about 35% (raising the 40% to about 65%) so .............. do we really want a smoking ban????

Renfrewshire Councils smoking enforcement chappies have informed me that I cannot smoke within 16 feet of my car. Therefore I can technically only smoke in my kitchen, bathroom or at the top of my stairs (just a wee house) as I park on my driveway at night.

Also cant smoke in my car when I am not working even if I can prove I am logged off. Argued it was my private car when not working and was told I would need to remove my plate and window stickers if I wanted to have a fag in the car. Need to remember to write to them and ask them for 14600 sets of window stickers so I can remove and replace them everytime I have a fag.

If anyone sees the collective Council brain cell please return it to Cotton Street.