Smoking & Driving

[newjacksm]

Combo bowl + Hobo hookah + your car cup holder = Success

What about this one?

[F16WarBird]

Get on the LIE and try it.

[Cp44]

my friends and I use to hot box everytime we go on long trips lol

[K1024]

I'll say what I've said in the other threads. I own a leila, I smoke in my car on longer trips, usually 1+ hours. Ive done a couple of 13 hour drives from indy to texas and back and would not have survived without the hookah. I do not pack bowls or light coals while driving, I dont do coal management, and I avoid anything more complex than unscrewing the windcover if its burning really hot. I also drive with my roof vented so that the smoke doesn't distract me, as it gets swept out of my vision instantly. I dont feel like hookah is a distraction. Smoking a hookah is far less distracting then what most people do when driving, like eating, talking/texting on their phones, or even lighting a cigarette.

That being said, I have crashed into another car while smoking a hookah. The other driver was completely at fault. While this is my only experience with a car crash, it didnt seem like the cops could care less about what either driver was doing in there car at the time. They came, made sure everyone was ok, took statements, and then made sure we could get the roadway cleared..and nothing else. maybe if I had a full grown hookah in my passenger seat it would have been different, but if your smoking a leila it doesnt seem any more suspicious than a fancy coffee mug with the hose off. As far as the leila itself-it stayed in my cupholder, and tilted a little. no ash spilled out, and it still smokes great. the accident was fast enough that it totaled both cars, and set off both of my airbags.

As far as having shitty smoke sessions in the car? I smoked my leila at home for a few weeks to get used to it. After doing this i learned you can just put .75 of a 3kings coal on there and leave it, and it will smoke fine for 45 minutes, drop another half on there or the windcover and it goes for 1.5 hours until the end of the bowl. its a simple formula that provides pretty good smoke. not up to par with a big hookah, but better than most hookah bars I have been to.


I'm not endorsing that this is a good idea to just do with any hookah, but if you've got the equipment, experience, and keep in mind that the roads more important than anything else you can be ok. It's like anything else thats slighlty dangerous that people do, and most people are willing to pay lots of money to do dangerously stupid shit on a regular basis. Edited June 10, 2010 by K1024

[Remy]

Smoking hookah in your car is a great idea and sometimes I even prefer, going out for drives with no destination whatsoever, just me and my hookah. Yes!

[F16WarBird]

I came across this today while surfing on a non hookah related site.


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[liquidglass]

[quote name='F16WarBird' date='09 June 2010 - 12:17 AM' timestamp='1276057070' post='471168']
[quote name='Rani' date='08 June 2010 - 09:10 PM' timestamp='1276020611' post='471097']
[quote name='F16WarBird' date='08 June 2010 - 12:24 AM' timestamp='1275981899' post='471052']
I have a natural compulsion to force the vehicles of drivers paying more attention to their phones than the road through the guard rail and over the edge of the nearest overpass so that they can die in burning heaps of rubble.

If I had to contend with someone in front of me trying to smoke a hookah and drive, I'd have to seriously consider installing hood mounted machine guns and TOE missile canisters on my car.


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I'm going to repeat myself for all the new people since the last time I said this...... If I'm in the car you hit, I'm going to own everything you earn for the next 20 years, because I'm going to sue you and I'm going to win. The jury will automatically hand the verdict to me the moment the cop gets on the stand and tells them there was a lit hookah in your car, Leila or not.

You really want to take a chance that big, go for it. I and others like me can use the extra income.

'Rani
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So you're saying....... I could use the money from the lawsuit to buy the TOE missiles? [img]http://www.hookahforum.com/public/style_emoticons/default/girl_blum2.gif[/img]
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Simple solution, put hookah in trunk or glove compartment after an accident. Assuming it is not your fault.

Overall though i think anyone should be able to do a drive without smoking while driving, if you carry a hookah stop off at a rest stop and chill.

[Cole.]

[quote name='F16WarBird' date='15 June 2010 - 12:50 AM' timestamp='1276577433' post='471697']
I came across this today while surfing on a non hookah related site.


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[/quote]

DOES IT HAVE AN OLD FASHIONED CAR PHONE?! haha. I want that and this so bad.

[OBY]

My friend had a suburban a couple years ago. I posted a hookah table I built on the forum.. Well we brought that in the suv and smoked while driving. It's extremly sturdy and to keep the coal from falling off, we made a tinfoil hat to go over the bowl.

We had the most extreme rush when we got out of the car. It was the weirdest feeling. I dunno if it was smoking in the car that did it or just our heads playing tricks. And of course it was just plain ol shisha.

[Cp44]

i was tempted to buy that portable hookah that fits in your cup holder

[F16WarBird]

For God's sake, don't smoke noir and drive!!!!!

[Rani]

[quote name='F16WarBird' date='16 June 2010 - 10:06 PM' timestamp='1276751191' post='471857']
For God's sake, don't smoke noir and drive!!!!!
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I've said it in a joking way, I've said it in a serious way....... But we all thought talking on a cell phone was not much of a distraction until 6,000 people a year started dying as a direct result of distracted driving. And somebody else wants to distract themselves with a lit hookah in the car. Sure the chances are relatively small of something going wrong especially if you have a passenger doing all the maintenance work, but however small the risk, the potential damage is simply too great. Anyone who intentionally does [u]anything[/u] to distract themselves when they're driving is putting the lives of others at risk.

Anybody really want to live with the death of another as justifiable because you just had to be "cool" and smoke in the car? You really want to have to make that explanation to the survivors? And live with the nightmares the rest of your life? Really?

'Rani

[thatonethere]

I cosign Rani's statement. I'd rather wait until I get home or until I'm done driving if I have my Mya Qt with me.

[Capt. Morgan]

Never done it an don't plan on it. Seems like mre potential trouble than it'd be worse.

[Rani]

I'm probably beating a dead horse, but here's the way I look at life and why I believe smoking while driving is stupid.....

I'm not against fun. I'm not against risk. And sometimes I take a hella lot of personal risk in the interest of having fun. But I feel like you have to go through life with a spreadsheet in your head balancing the fun factor against the risk. If you're not sure you can get up on time to move your car ahead of the street sweeper , you risk a ticket. Been there, done that, had to cough up fifty bucks in Beverly Hills. I took the risk for the convenience of parking close, missed the deadline and paid the penalty. Not a big pay out, but still, it went South on me so I lost the bet with fate.

As we go through life, we have to choose which things have the most fun factor with the least risk we're willing to take. Sitting inside a ton of metal, horsepower, and explosive fluid with a lit hookah on the road with other people in their many tons of metal, horsepower and explosive fluid, hoping you're going to be paying as much attention to your driving as they are is a bet with fate. The problem is if you lose the bet, it isn't a fifty buck ticket. It's maybe having to see a child without a parent, a parent without a child, or even an entire family lost. And knowing it's not only your fault, but it's your fault because you did something you knew upped the risk to an unreasonable degree. This is just one of those things where you have to look at that balance sheet in your head and say, nope, not worth the risk. "If I don't get too distracted, and nothing comes out of nowhere in the wrong split second, I had a good time smoking in my car, woo hoo." or "Oh shit, in the wrong split second I wasn't fully attentive, and somebody died." Fun factor to risk, not such a good balance.

One of my major rules in life: Don't even sit down at the poker table if you're not willing to ante up.

'Rani

[Venger]

I gotta side with Rani on this. There is only one thing you should do while driving...Drive. I once asked a state trooper if there was ever an excuse he had heard or would take for someone speeding. He asked like what? I said like yelling at your kids for screwing around in the back seat or fighting and not realizing how fast you were going.He looked at me and said DEAR GOD NO you are driving a bomb on wheels. If you are not aware of how fast you are going what else aren't you aware of. You should have pulled over and corrected your kids, not in a moving car.
ever since then I am very careful about what I do.I don't text or talk on my phone without hands free. I don't even look at the stereo when I change the station. I keep my eyes on the road. I won't even light a cigarette while driving. Laugh at the old guy if you want but I have been driving since I was 16 and I am 46 now and have NEVER been in an accident. Be safe and smoke when you get there.
Ray

[Cole.]

Though I rarely smoke 'em, if I do smoke in my car I refuse to light up while actually driving the car. It's just too dangerous to try and finagle that AND drive a large machine.

[F16WarBird]

When I smoked cigarettes, I smoked and drove all the time. However, I didn't have to worry about heat management or loose coals rolling around on the floor.

[Atrox79]

[quote name='F16WarBird' date='19 June 2010 - 12:41 AM' timestamp='1276933271' post='472108']
When I smoked cigarettes, I smoked and drove all the time. However, I didn't have to worry about heat management or loose coals rolling around on the floor.
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Same here...but even then, on occasion, the cigarette would drop on my lap or maybe even through the side of my shoe. I can't imagine what burning, flying coals would do to a driver.

[bellydancerakn]

[quote name='Atrox79' date='20 June 2010 - 11:10 AM' timestamp='1277057408' post='472231']
[quote name='F16WarBird' date='19 June 2010 - 12:41 AM' timestamp='1276933271' post='472108']
When I smoked cigarettes, I smoked and drove all the time. However, I didn't have to worry about heat management or loose coals rolling around on the floor.
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Same here...but even then, on occasion, the cigarette would drop on my lap or maybe even through the side of my shoe. I can't imagine what burning, flying coals would do to a driver.
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If I smoke a cigar while driving I usually have my hand out the window so that takes care of ash and if I drop it I won't be burning myself.
And for all you folks talking about lighting up while driving I NEVER do that. I always light up while still parked. Lighting up while driving a 1 ton pick up on the freeway is among the more stupider things I could do.

[K1024]

[quote name='Atrox79' date='20 June 2010 - 11:10 AM' timestamp='1277057408' post='472231']
[quote name='F16WarBird' date='19 June 2010 - 12:41 AM' timestamp='1276933271' post='472108']
When I smoked cigarettes, I smoked and drove all the time. However, I didn't have to worry about heat management or loose coals rolling around on the floor.
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Same here...but even then, on occasion, the cigarette would drop on my lap or maybe even through the side of my shoe. I can't imagine what burning, flying coals would do to a driver.
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lol loose coals shouldnt be a problem if your doing it right.

as far as my car being a moving bomb...sure it is, but me smoking a hookah is way less distracting than talking on your phone, texting, changing a station, smoking a cigarette, eating, or frankly anything else you could do in your car. I dont take my eyes off the road to smoke, and I dont mess with the hookah unless I am stopped.

[redjako]

If you get a ticket for smoking Hookah while driving and whine about it on here, I'm going to preemptively call you an idiot. We have enough accidents happen on the roads from morons on their cell phones, MUCH less giving hookah a shitty wrap for your dumb behavior.

Only time to smoke in the car is camping.

[F16WarBird]

[quote name='redjako' date='21 June 2010 - 02:02 AM' timestamp='1277074975' post='472247']Only time to smoke in the car is camping.[/quote]

Or in the backseat if you have nowhere to take your girl and you're 16 years old.

[Rani]

[quote name='F16WarBird' date='20 June 2010 - 11:08 PM' timestamp='1277100519' post='472291']
[quote name='redjako' date='21 June 2010 - 02:02 AM' timestamp='1277074975' post='472247']Only time to smoke in the car is camping.[/quote]

Or in the backseat if you have nowhere to take your girl and you're 16 years old.
[/quote]

No, no, no! No encouragement to the 16 year olds that swing through here reading. Damn wing wipers!

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'Rani

[Caila]

I have smoked hookah in the car one time and the only reason i did it was because i was not the driver. I didn't like it because we were on a highway and you couldn't open the window because it would blow the coal off. I don't recommend it.