I heard on the radio that smoking while driving a car is illegal as from today. This and about 24 other clauses have been added to the highway code. If they can prosecute a woman for taking a swig of water out of a bottle while waiting at traffic lights, they can do as they d*mn well please. I'm a nonsmoker, and non-driver, so it doesn't personally affect me, but I am getting increasingly annoyed about the Nanny State, and erosion of our liberties. You have to take a hand off the steering wheel to change gear, or use the indicators, so I don't see a difference quite frankly. Either way one hand comes off the wheel for a few seconds, so why should smoking a cigarette be more dangerous than indicating or changing gear?