Scott. It's illegal to drink whilst driving here in the UK. A couple of years back a woman was stationery in a queue at a traffic light waiting for it to change. She took a swig of water from a bottle and was charged for it.
You can tax people more every year and force them into 'socialized' medicine, but if you told Americans they couldn't drink coffee while driving you'd have the next revolution in this country.
Here you can drink and smoke while you drive. I think in most states you can even talk on the phone, text, and surf the web at the same time. I've seen people doing all three. Many states are enacting laws against talking on the phone, texting, and surfing the web. Why we need laws against all this smartphone silliness I don't know, you would think people would just know it's not the best idea, unsafe, and would choose not to do it. But they don't. God bless America!
Scott