[New York City]Council Seeks New Ban on Smoking by Parents in Cars

The New York Sun ^ | August 15, 2007 | GRACE RAUH

[2ndDivisionVet]

Smokers have already been banned from New York bars and restaurants, and soon they could be prohibited from lighting up in cars carrying minors, an idea giving added fuel to critics who say the city has become a nanny state.

A City Council member of Queens who is chairman of the council's Environmental Protection Committee, James Gennaro, said he is planning to introduce the smoking bill next week.

"I am just seeking every opportunity I can to denormalize smoking and to try to put it out of the reach of kids," Mr. Gennaro said. "I've lost family members to lung cancer and I've seen what happens."

If enacted, smoking in cars with riders under the age of 18 would join a growing list of activities barred by the city, including making too much noise at night, serving trans fats in restaurants, and allowing students to carry cell phones in school.

Mayor Bloomberg, who has spearheaded worldwide anti-tobacco initiatives, used the health risks associated with second-hand smoke to argue for a ban on smoking in bars.

[2ndDivisionVet]

And some people here want Bloomberg's clone (Rudy Giuliani) to be the GOP nominee? Incredible!!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

So what’s going to happen to all of that tax revenue when these nanny-staters put all of the tobacco companies out of business?

[Paperdoll]

Next thing you know they will be coming around to our homes with smoke sniffing dogs!

[poobear]

Gives a whole new reason for “duck everybody, it’s the cops!”

Or how about, “Mom, give me $20 or I tell the cops you smoked yesterday on the way to soccer practice”.

[Spok]

NYC could be sliding into the darkest pit of hell and the city fathers would still be wringing their hands over second hand smoke. Most politicians have no sense of proportion.

[Ramius]

some people here want Bloomberg's clone (Rudy Giuliani)

I didn't see a part where Rudy banned smoking in NYC. So... why bring him up? Got Rudy on your mind alot on other topics too?

[Weeedley]

I am for this. Kids don’t have a choice as to riding in a car with thoughtless idiot smoking parents; making young lungs breathe fumes is a form of physical abuse.

[microgood]

"I am just seeking every opportunity I can to denormalize smoking and to try to put it out of the reach of kids," Mr. Gennaro said.

Yeah, right, you care about the chillen. Liar.

[johnny7]

So what’s going to happen to all of that tax revenue when these nanny-staters put all of the tobacco companies out of business?

Pay-toilets in every home...

[microgood]

I am for this. Kids don’t have a choice as to riding in a car with thoughtless idiot smoking parents; making young lungs breathe fumes is a form of physical abuse.

You were born in the wrong country. Communist China is really where you belong.

[coloradan]

Demonstrate the harm. The WHO couldn’t, they only found a slight protective effect.

[coloradan]

Tinted windows.

[xcamel]

what part of MYODB don’t you get? I’m sure there are at least 10 things about your lifestyle that some gooberment snoop could twist into “child endangerment” - it’s a mighty slippery slope you’re on.

[ari-freedom]

you are assuming they won’t be able to find other ways to tax us?

[Weeedley]

Ya think? Let me rephrase, if you are the smoker you self identified you are, not much thinking going on there. Who in their right minds can justify blowing smoke in a babies face?

[dsutah]

But R.Giuliani didn’t go that far. Look, I know a lot of people on this site don’t like Giuliani, and don’t want him for president. However, to incinuate that he did things he didn’t yet is unfair, isn’t it?

That said, he did go far enough in some issues to make people dislike him, and I understand why. In some ways, Bloomburg went even further than Giuliani ever did, and this is one of them! He’s going to have a rebellion on his hands if he doesn’t watch out!

Personally, I’d like to know how he is going to enforce this. Put police in everyone’s home and car?

[2ndDivisionVet]

I wasn’t specifically talking about tobacco when I stated that Rudy is Bloomberg’s clone. I meant they’re both gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual RINO liberals. Does that clarify it for you?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Take a look at Weeedley’s “born on” date. Hmmmmmm....

[ari-freedom]

You are right. they must be bad parents so we should have the government take the kids away and raise them. right?

[HockeyPop]

“Personally, I’d like to know how he is going to enforce this. Put police in everyone’s home and car?”

Its less about a matter of police enforcement than it is about controlling behavior which is the liberals gameplan of diminishing, marginalising and creating pariahs where before they didn’t exist. Mind control.