A ban on handheld cellphone use while driving is too difficult a balance between personal rights and public safety according to one of our representatives, as reported in The Tribune.
I would assume from this logic that having a few drinks while driving would also fall on the side of our personal rights to drink. Why not also include our personal rights to smoke pot or snort cocaine?
Our “representatives” are only too happy to ban things that they don’t like doing while permitting things they personally approve of.
A University of Utah study by psychology professor David Strayer found: “Just like you put yourself and other people at risk when you drive drunk, you put yourself and others at risk when you use a cellphone and drive. The level of impairment is very similar.”
Marilyn A Smith, Holladay
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