It's "addicting."

It's "dangerous."

Yet people continue to do it.

It's not drugs, it's not drinking-- it's text messaging while driving.

A University of Utah study says texting while driving is 50 percent more dangerous than talking on the phone while driving, and 57 percent of people surveyed admitted to texting behind the wheel.

The same study says texting is like drunk driving.

That's why one michigan lawmaker wants to make texting while driving illegal. Buzz Thomas says a ticket for doing so should cost $100.

Lt. Tom Foote of the Ingham County Sheriff's Office says all it takes is a quick distraction like reading a text for someone to get hurt.

"It doesn't take long to drift across the center line or drift across traffic and lose control," he says.

Under the law, police couldn't ticket people just for texting, they'd have to have pulled the person over for something else first. But police say succesfully accusing people of texting might be hard to prove.

"There will have to be some pretty good observations they were doing there in order to prove it," says Foote.

And some will undoubtedly find ways to get around the law, like avid texter-and-driver Tiffnee Julian.

"I'll just put it in my lap," she says.

It may take more than a hundred-dollar fine to slow down this fast-growing trend.