tommy t:
I don’t smoke , but i used to,& like a chimney at times mostly due to boredom whilst driving on some autoroute/barn during the twilight hours ,& no smoking ban was ever going to stop me, but after a few years of not getting over there and the rip off price over here for them i chose to quit those killer cigs,As a smoker you become too accustomed to the smell on clothing & fabrics, to notice , but after not smoking for several years, you can easily tell if someone is a smoker or not, not by seeing them smoke, but by smelling it on them, just as if someone in a car ahead of you is smoking in slow moving traffic, So i know where those who have never smoked are tomming from, but if there is not actual smoke in the cab them there is no risk to their health ,
Same here, when the smoking in the cab law came into force I decided then and there that I was not going to be made a leper and gave up. Four years on and I’ve defintely no regrets (although as an ex-smoker I don’t kid myself that I’m always one ■■■ from becoming a current smoker again). Gone is the morning cough, and the circulation problems, and I definitely don’t want them back again.
Occaisionally a smoker uses my wagon in the day, and although I’m fairly sure he does’nt smoke in the cab, I pick up the smell of tobacco on my hands simply from contact with his hands on the steering wheel. In my smoking days nobody would have convinced me of that argument, but I jest you not dear readers.