CA: Snuffing out smoking in cars with children

Sacramento Bee ^ | August 14, 2006 | Jim Sanders

[Still Thinking]

No, no, no! Any and all rules are waived for illegals. What were you thinking?

[yoe]

These are the same people who complain about their RIGHTS that WOT is taking from them.

Who has the cartoon of two women are complaining about how strict Islamic law is and how awful it must be to live under them. When a man at the next table (they are outside) lights up a cigarette - both women turn a scream "Excuse Me? This is a no-smoking city!" California is becoming the Naggers Inc. state of the USA. Rights? We lose them every day to meddlesome people like these.

[Madame Dufarge]

Rights? We lose them every day to meddlesome people like these.

Rights? No right is so sacred that we musn't sacrifice them "for the children."

I used to think Americans were too smart to fall for this.

I don't now.

[Tall_Texan]

AB 379 makes no exception for vehicles whose windows are open to increase ventilation. It applies to motorists whose passengers are younger than 6 or lighter than 60 pounds.

Does this mean you couldn't smoke if you had an adult dwarf in the car?

[lewislynn]

Says the enemies of individual liberty, private property and personal responsibility.

Right, the "individual liberty" of the smoker is paramount to a childs "individual liberty" to not have to breathe the smoke of the one with all that "personal responsibility"...

If those children had any sense of "personal responsibility" they wouldn't get in their parents smoke filled car or ask their mommy and daddy to give up their "individual liberty" to smoke during a 20 minute drive to school or dance or soccer.

[elkfersupper]

I am in favor of banning all smoking and all stinky air fresheners FROM MY OWN FREAKING CAR. Oh yeah, and farting too.

If you live in a community property state (and I'm guessing that you do), and you're married, it ain't your car, sister.

[elkfersupper]

If those children had any sense of "personal responsibility" they wouldn't get in their parents smoke filled car or ask their mommy and daddy to give up their "individual liberty" to smoke during a 20 minute drive to school or dance or soccer.

If those children had any sense of "personal responsibility", they wouldn't get in their parents' car at all

Those things kill people.

[lewislynn]

If those children had any sense of "personal responsibility", they wouldn't get in their parents' car at all

Those things kill people.

Hopefully not the slow agonizing death like from smoking.

[elkfersupper]

Hopefully not the slow agonizing death like from smoking.

Show us a death certificate that lists smoking as the cause.

[at bay]

You want somethin to cry about? I'll give you something to cry about, I'll ban cigarettes if you'll let me.

--your current surgeon general, Dr. Goodguy, appointed by an honorable and decent man, George Bush.

[Mears]

bump

[Anomaly in Illinois]

hmmmm.... first you can't smoke your legal cigarette in the private property of your car (for the children of course) THEN you can't smoke your legal cigarette in the private property of your home (for the children of course) THEN you can't have that lawful *gun* in your home (it's for the children of course)

This is not the future I want to hand down to my children.

[beckysueb]

Here is one that would really drive you nuts. I know a guy who would make a big deal of hacking whenever he SAW a smoker. We were at the mall once and I had seen someone smoking across the food court. The person was behind him. I had noticed this for at least five minutes. It wasn't until the guy turned around to get up that he started hacking and coughing about the cigarette smoke. It really was irritating.

I got one even better. I had one of those fake cigarettes; like the ones that are supposed to help you quit; and some woman about 50 feet away had a coughing, hand waving fit. LOL

[Still Thinking]

Exactly. I find creeping wussification and unthinking obedience to elected "masters" a FAR greater threat to the future of children than a little cigarette smoke once in a while, and I don't even smoke.

[Anomaly in Illinois]

Yes, as they eagerly get in line to get retrained and compete to see who can be more politically correct.

Lets not forget begging their keepers to take more and more freedoms away to keep them safe! (from terrorists, cigarettes or whatever else)

Gag!

First they came for the smokers children but I didn't smoke, then they took away the fat (oh sorry weight challenged) children but mine were thin, then.....

[at bay]

THEN you can't have that lawful *gun* in your home...

Funny thing, tho', as another thoughtful poster pointed out, gun rights have been greatly EXPANDED in this country as a whole in the last couple of decades. Mandatory issue right to carry concealed weapons (the presumption, unless proved otherwise is that you have a right to have such a permit) are now being issued by the millions each year.

So the slippery slope is really the slippery, blowing smoke, trying to come up with a reason to justify their continued misbehavior around others.

And as the elected leader pointed out, we wouldn't need such laws if so many smokers were not such complete morons/idiots/slobs.

your pal,

Smokey the bear

(hurl the insults at Smokey, please, I am just the conduit to allow him to speak--At Bay)