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They aren't mutually exclusive. Stopping texting while driving and stopping smoking can both be done. It's just completely irrelevant really.



I'm sorry I presented them as mutually exclusive, you're correct that they are not.

The difference is that one is already illegal - stopped, as it were. I postulate that this law will not significantly reduce distracted driving, but that it will primarily serve to perpetuate our government's apparent war on privacy. To be clear: I'm perfectly fine with a warrant-based search, particularly of carrier records. All this law does is grant individual law enforcement officers yet more authority to judge and immediately punish.




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