Can anyone tell me why smoking doesn't count as distracted driving? While smoking you have to take two hands to get it out of package and light it and you either have to flick ashes out of the window or into your ash tray in the car. The cigarette forces you to take your hands off the wheel multiple times and if an ash were to fall on your skin/interior it would cause more distraction.
Not to mention that it then leads to people throwing the butts out onto the road which is illegal and causes multiple grass fires a year. If I cant hit two buttons on my phone to change the song I am listening to I don't think smokers should be allowed to light up.
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