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The difference is that by cell phone, and eating, you are distracting yourself.

Would you shove a phone in front of someone who is driving, to make them read a text? (I am obviously exaggerating, but you get the idea).

It's 14 years for blinding someone else.

You obviously don't know what kind of lasers are available for purchase online. They're not your average presentation laser pointers. I know one pilot that completely lost his night vision in approach after a green laser hit the windshield. By luck his copilot was looking down at the time.