AH!! But will it also ban children from smoking in the car? (:^*)
Big Brother strikes again.
Nanny state ping................
It's a brave new world, pal.
Much more of this and I'll be movin' on.
Smoking a cigarette in my jeep as I drive out of the state for good.
OK, so the kids get to ride in the trunk. What's wrong with that? Much quieter.
I have got to say that this issue shows how gutless ourpoliticians really are at the state, local and federal levels.
If smokes are SOOOOOO bad that they are banning their use everywhere then why aren't they simply banning their production and distribution?
If they can ban smoking in a personal car why not a personal house as well? What is the difference?
Here is how our politicians could be uniting on this issue rather than devisive. Approach this from the standpoint of making designated places for people to smoke. In this angle it is not about taking something away from smokers, indeed it is about protecting their freedom to smoke em if they got em. Both sides get what they want and deserve, which is the ability to make their own choice.
Here in the capitol city a smoking ban has taken effect and now we see people all over the place that are actually in the STREET. Yes the law has become so foolish as to mandate someone be in the street Literally! How long before someone gets run over? Isn't the state responsible for them being run over? After all they passed laws that put these folks there right?
It is my position that lawmakers are backdooring smokers because they fear big tobacco industry (and of course the donations they make towards political campaigns).
If they want to make them illegal then go on with their bad selves and DO IT. Otherwise this only serves to add to the mentality that they really do not want to change anyones behavior.....they simply want to charge you for it.
Disgusting really!
Every day, America takes a step a little bit closer to socialism. Why don't they just ban cigarettes and be done with it.
Unless,of course, that person happens to still be in the womb.
I don't like the smoke nazis either. But not lighting up in a car with kids in it makes sense to me - and it makes alot more sense than banning smoking in barrooms.
AH!! But will it also ban children from smoking in the car? (:^*)
Your child is 10 lbs overweight, lets remove them from the home...
"Don't worry about us, all we are asking for is a ban on smoking on domestic flights shorter than 2 hours duration. That's it. Nothing more. Why are you making such a big deal out of this? ..."
"I'm just trying to protect those who cannot protect themselves," he said.
Your homes are next. Bureaucrats, carrying writs of assistance, will demand entry to homes to check that children are being raised according to the state's interpretation of the Marxist common good.
(Writs of assistance are one of factors that ignited the American revolutionary war.)
This is what you get with career politicans in full time legislative sessions. Peple who feel they have to be seen to be doing something and have nothing better to do with their time then pass this kind of lunatic drivel.
The damn nanny state is out of control. When I as a kid, my parents didn't worry about such nonsense.
I like the way that this moron calls blowing carcinogens and poisons in smoke into children's lungs "taking care" of them. Next thing you know, this idiot will try to pass a law saying that parents can feed infants drain cleaning. After all that would be "taking care" of them, too...
Whether you like it or not, smokers, your smoking in a confined space is noxious to children. My own experience as a child is that one can get used to the stench of a paper mill or a cattle feed lot, but not cigarette smoke. Both of my parents were smokers and, 45 years later, I still remember misery of long car trips in winter. Thank goodness we didn't have a car air conditioner back then!
I'm not a big believer in the health danger of second-hand smoke, but I think that this prohibition is not unreasonable. A parent's right to indulge his addictions should be balanced against his child's right to breathe unpolluted air in a confined space.
They already require child seats and boosters as they grow in cars. You have CPS all over the land ready to "counsel" you if any teacher or neighbor thinks the values you are teaching them is contrary to theirs. On and on and on.
People worry about provisions of the Patriot Act violating liberties, but turn a blind eye as the "I know better than you" crowd slowly invade many aspects of our lives and regulate what we may or may not do.
Like I keep saying, as they gradually prohibit our choices, soon the only choice left will be to abort your unborn child. That seems to be the only "choice" they deem appropriate any longer.