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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is illegal to smoke while driving, but it is impossible to enforce.  [/quote]

It is not impossible to make a dent in the problem. It is not impossible to make a dent in the problem of people smoking wherever they want in public in so many places.

Police used to cite and arrest people smoking in public and while driving. All the time. They still could. [/quote]

It is next to impossible to enforce.  I've prosecuted impaired driving cases and weed cases are almost always acquittals.  The defendants claim that their car stinks because they smoked in it hours before or that their buddy (who they dropped off just before getting pulled over) was the one smoking.  The prosecution has no wayto disprove this.  Blood tests only show the presence of THC in the blood, but unlike alcohol, there's no readily available test to see if someone is currently under the influence.

And if you're talking about just citing people for smoking in public or while driving, you run into the same issue.  The defendant will claim they were smoking a tobacco cigarette and the only reason they smell like weed is because they were hanging out with a friend who was smoking weed.  I don't see how you disprove this.  [/quote]

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