They Just Banned Smoking in Cars (w/ children)

I remember Loving to ride with my dad because he smoked. I liked the smell. Still do. Wasn't sick as a child, except for the scarlet fever once. But whatever. Those that want to control, or have a different experience know better. I guess because I have no interest in controlling what offends me and others, do.

http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/therap.htm

Every *body* is different. I think some people are only alive because they smoke/smoked.

Incense for my temple. =P

Another revenue scheme,imagine that!!
How about the kids that find their parents gun and shoots someone.
Does that mean if you have children it's against the law to have a firearm?
Not yet,but it's the responsibility as a parent for the safety of THEIR children.
This isn't about the safety of kids but only of generating revenue.This can all be done with education and not through another draconian law.

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"I love the Union and the Constitution, but I would rather leave the Union with the Constitution than remain in the Union without it." - Jefferson Davis

Are your children private property?

I hate government, and I hate laws, but I also hate abuse of others and ESPECIALLY of children who cannot have a choice. It's a shame that people smoke around their children and it makes me cringe with anger every time. Forcing a child to inhale your smoke is WORSE than hitting.

Smoking in your home or car is not a crime. Threatening the health and well-being of others IS.

However, we don't want laws like this to get out of control. It would be scary if there was policing of what food we give our kids. But cigarettes are not like food, because there are many foods and only one tobacco, which is proven dangerous.

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I smoke and thats one thing I do not do. I will not smoke in the car with my child or my old lady. It takes a total asshole to smoke inside the car with a child. You might have a choice but that child does not. So no I am not going to get mad at this law because people that do it need a good dose of respect.

04 March 2009
Smoking in cars with kids illegal, under bill
http://thestatecom.typepad.com/ygatoday/2009/03/smoking-in-c...

Motorists who light up in the car with passengers 10 and under would be subject to a fine of up to $100, according to a bill that passed a Senate Committee Wednesday.

The bill, which passed the Senate last year and died in the House, would allow law enforcement to pose a fine when there is clear evidence someone ?has been? smoking in a car with young children.

The bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Darrell Jackson, D-Richland, said the bill is intended to protect children from second-hand smoke.

The bill is still expected to have opposition in the House. Some members who helped kill the bill last year saw it as a slippery slope that would begin to ban smoking in private venues.


My 12 year old is the same height as my 10 year old....So are policy enforcement officers gonna stop and check papers of every car with the "clear evidence" of smoking? How does a policy enforcer make this determination while driving and observing? HINT: They can't. (I can only see this issue getting bigger, more intrusive and so as not to "burden" enforcement: Why not just saddle the steering wheel with "smoke detector breathalyzers" that call the sheriff? Or perhaps insist upon "chip and swipe" technology so the State Troopers can simply zoom by, swipe and make an age determination?....C'mon people THINK!)

Anyone in SC knows it's much more dangerous to drive (and breathe) behind a South Carolina school bus than it is to smoke a pack of cigarettes all at once, closed up in a car....sigh....hypocrites!

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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.

is it time to have the government raise and take care of all the chirren at taxpayer expense?

we do it with the old people, why not the kids? what better way to protect chirren than to sequester them in government compounds, out of sight, and out of mind?

most murricans suck as parents so as it is. anything that prevents em from breeding and raising chirren, i support! well that, and chirren are annoying little pests anyway.

the other benefit would be hardcore porn on cbs and nudity in the streets.

I'm practically speechless too. If this had been the law when I was a child, all four of us kids would have been in foster care. My mom smoked like a chimney in the car and insisted on keeping the windows rolled up. None of us are smokers and we hate cigarette smoke. However, I believe in an individual's right to choose and right to privacy, even parents'. I was far better off inhaling a lot of second hand smoke then I would have been had I been sent to foster care over this or the many other big brother issues that dominates parenting today.

This 39-year study done on 35,561 non-smokers living with smokers. That's a LOT of participants to study.

"...But in fact, Enstrom and Kabat found no such link. Rather, they concluded that there is no statistically significant link between secondhand smoke and deaths from coronary heart disease, lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

See for yourself why secondhand smoke is just propaganda to control and police everything you do.

http://whyfiles.org/183smoking/3.html

and another found by poster below:

http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/23399/Scientific_...

Please give the kids a break !

Personally, I can't stand being around smokers and feel sorry for their captive children.

My dad and mom smoked their fool heads off, dad died at 39, massive coronary thrombosis (I was 14). Mom stopped later, and died at 75 with pancreatic cancer. Her sister who never smoked just passed at 90 (blood infection). I never smoked and I'm 66, but my 64 y/o sister does, and she had a quintuple by-pass early '50's. My daughter-in-laws uncle quit at 65 and died of lung cancer 75, they should of had a closed coffin funeral for him, it only took weeks after diagnosis for the guy looked like an Auschwitz victim. The daughter-in-laws 67 y/o dad can't walk 10 feet without being out of breath with emphysema.

Everyone gets what they deserve, except the kids.

there is no sacrosanct freedom when it's being taken away for the chirren!