Texting and Driving

Okay, so finally getting a new password set up I may now post a new...um..post. Anywho.
So texting and driving. I am with the ban. I mean, come on. It's like drinking and driving; anything that inihibits your senses and such to what's happening around you should not be allowed. I only text, if I text at all, at a stoplight. I answer my phone more frequently but I try and make sure I have the earpiece with me, though, I don't always use it.
The deaths and accidents nowadays seem to be increasing due to the cell phone use and such. It's addicting. You think "Just one time, real quick"- but it becomes easier and easier to do it each time, and soon your doing it when your driving just as you would talk to a friend in the car. It's scary, scary for the driver and for those around him/her. I know that several times I was almost in an accident due to someone chatting away on their phone, ignoring the fact that their light just turned red. Or wow, that was a STOP sign, not a yeild. They would realized these things too late. Now for truckers and people like my Dad for example who may need to have their cell phone on and with them, I'm cool with that. They're making a call or looking for directions. The ban I hope they will enforce is the typical teenage texting etc... I mean, if you think about it, it's just as bad as drinking and driving...that's just my opinion. What's yours?