Posted on 11/08/2005 12:52:05 PM PST by ShadowDancer
Bill Could Ban Smoking In Car With Kids
Studies Show Secondhand Smoke Impairs Respiratory Health
POSTED: 11:14 am EST November 8, 2005
LANSING, Mich. -- Smoky car rides to school may soon be illegal.
Using a lit tobacco product in a vehicle with a person under 18 would be a civil infraction under a bill to be formally introduced Tuesday by Rep. John Moolenaar, spokesman John Whetstone said.
"We've all seen it on our streets and highways, children in the back seat, smokers in the front, and your heart just goes out to those kids," said Moolenaar, R-Midland.
The bill would allow police officers to pull over drivers who are smoking with children in the car, Whetstone said. A fine for the infraction would be set by the courts.
Several studies indicate that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in adult nonsmokers and impairs the respiratory health of children.
An estimated 150,000 to 300,000 children under 18 months of age get pneumonia or bronchitis every year from breathing secondhand tobacco smoke, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Here we go.
How about if it's the underage kid smoking?
Some statistic. In other words, we're just making this up.
Hard to see a difference between that and smoking in the house with kids present. Do you ban that as well? Slope thy name is Slippery.
More of the nanny state. Don't you love it?
what are his views on killing preborn children???????that is certainly more dangerous than 2nd hand smoke.
That's totally acceptable.
Or how about Bill Could Ban Rap Music in Car with Kid
So, going to the grocery store is ok?/sarc
OK, I call BS.
What about anger? Can't they pass a law against anger? And meaness, too. And those deep blue M&M peanuts. They put too many in the bag. Can't they pass a law against blue M&M's?
Suppose it's a carload of underage kids?
The next logical step will be in your own home. Countdown for all the "no constitutional right to privacy posts" 4....3....2....1
"We've all seen it in our towns and cities, children in her belly, no man by her side, and your heart goes out to those kids when she selfishly refuses to abort them."
These people just won't quit - will they?
I would like one of these lame brains to please explain why the rates of respiratory health problems in children, including asthma, are on a continuous rise at the same time smoking rates and SHS exposure are declining?
Of course they can not explain it.
As always - please ping or FReepmail me if you want on or off this list.
Yet it will still be legal for a parent to let a child run with scissors.
For now.
I dunno, when I worked at McDonald's 8 years ago, I saw this all the time. People pull up in drive thru, open their windows, and huge clouds come wafting out, and the car is packed with kids.
How do you even enforce this unless its another attempt for children to turn on their parents...???
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