text: smoking while driving - why isn't it illegal? you can get a fine for eating a kit kat while driving, 3 points for using a mobile. yet you are allowed to light up and smoke while driving with impunity. whats more likely to cause a crash, a bit of kitkat on your lap or hot sig ash???  you can't tell me that you are paying attention to the road ahead while you are lighting up, and how do you keep both hands on the wheel while smoking?  totaly off at a tangent, i was a car salesman for 14 years, the smell of smoke in a car and the nicotine tinge to the interior knocks about 10 to 20% of the trade-in value of a used car.  it says on the front of ciggerett boxes "smoking kills"  fine, if you want to kill yourself go for it, just try not to take anyone out with you on the way. smoking while driving is the same as having a lighted blow torch in the car. it should be banned. i have seen police officers smoking while driving. taxi drivers and bus drivers. they should be fined and banned from driving for 3 months minimum. smoking is a distraction. being distracted while driving can kill. stand in a field and smoke yourself to death if thats what you really want. let the rest of us live.