Bill Would Ban Smoking In Car With Kids

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[chance33_98]

Bill Would Ban Smoking In Car With Kids

Georgia Democrat Proposes Bill To State House

POSTED: 9:47 a.m. EST January 31, 2003

ATLANTA -- Smoking in a car carrying a child would be illegal under a bill proposed Thursday in the Georgia House of Representatives.

Democrat Paul Smith proposed the bill to make it a misdemeanor to smoke in a vehicle where a child is restrained in a car seat. The misdemeanor would carry a fine and include cigars, cigarettes and pipes.

"This is just protecting the kids from secondhand smoke," Smith said. "It's damaging to adults and it's even more dangerous to children."

Smith said he knew of no other state with such a law but is optimistic the Legislature will consider the smoking bill.

"We've got to start somewhere," he said.

[chance33_98]

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[Carry_Okie]

"We've got to start somewhere," he said.

He's kidding, right?

[Taliesan]

Is it harmful to the kids?

[mr.pink]

I guess the next logical step will be to make it illegal to smoke in your home if you have children.

[Ides of March]

Bill Would Ban Smoking In Car With Kids

And then:
Bill Would Ban Smoking In House With Kids
Bill Would Ban Smoking In Yard With Kids
Bill Would Ban Smoking In City-limits With Kids
Bill Would Ban Smoking In World With Kids

Ok, I skipped a few steps, but not many.

[chance33_98]

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[American Soldier]

Public smoking bans are stupid, but this is a little bit different.

The average driver today is TOO STUPID to handle driving! I've moved to the East Coast (Virginia) and things are even worse here than they were back in Washington.

It's sad to say, but the average driver today really does not have enough intelligence, coordination, or capacity (WHATEVER you want to call it!) to handle both the tasks of road safety management and tobacco consumption management at the same time.

I don't know how many times some dumbass has come within 8 inches of me and then I see him look up from lighting his cigarette!

It's a silly ban but I wouldn't fight against it. Cell phone users without hands-free equipment are the worst offenders of all. I've had to get out of my car to yell at a couple of them. Really I wish the state legislature would stop worrying so much about people who want to smoke a cigarette or drink a coke in their car and go after these schmucks who need to buy a $300 car phone instead of pulling over and making 50 cent calls but WILL NOT buy a $10 attachment that allows them to get the thing out of their face and look at the road while they drive!

I'm sure MANY more kids are killed by idiot drivers who have something more important to pay attention to than the road than are killed by second hand smoke every year.

[Gerish]

Exactly how are they going to enforce this? Police smoking road blocks? Please - where is the common sense?

[hapy]

i watched this on cross fire last night. I can only take so much of that show, it gives me a pounding headache. In any event it was ridiculous. Is there no end in liberals trying to control our lives.
I don't smoke, nor do I like to see adults smoking in the same room as young children; however, I think it is more dangerous, physically, to take your child to a protest. The dangers in that far exceed the danger in off and on second hand smoke

[Fixit]

For arguments sake let's say I accept your point.

You fail, however, to state a case against smoking in a car, you simply state a case against smoking and driving.

What of the passengers in the car?

[TLBSHOW]

Democrat Paul Smith

BUT OF COURSE A COMMIE RAT

[chance33_98]

My mom smoked in the car while I was growing up, never really bothered me. My mother is an awesome woman, anyone who knows her calls her mom, and to see her lumped into leftists campaigns as a bad mother (which we all know is what they would say) infuriates me.

EXCUSE me liberals (and we know you lurk - this is not directed at hapy) but I have for years put up with your whining about how christians were trying to force a morality on you, how the right was trying to turn you into Mrs. Cleaver, etc - Looks like your doing the same thing you whined about for years. Hypocrites.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

It won't end at vehicles, the home is next. At that point they will never stop legislating big brother laws "for the sake of the kids", even down to the content of what is watched on tv if the kiddies are around. Of course the police won't come knocking on everyone's door to ensure compliance, they'll just use teachers, doctors, or any other convenient stooge to report to the authorities whenever some kid tells them their parents have been naughty.

[chance33_98]

At that point they will never stop legislating big brother laws "for the sake of the kids", even down to the content of what is watched on tv if the kiddies are around.

See my previous post, but to continue the rant - the left has a 'religion' which they want to force upon us. They want to make us follow their beliefs. The leftists are fascist pigs.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The leftists are fascist pigs.

No doubt about it, most of these Karl Marx laws come from liberals. Georgia has a strong Republican party though, I hope they resist this out of principle.

[Wolfie]

Oh, c'mon on now, you're all not naive enough to think that your personal choices don't affect anybody but you?

[freeper12]

This isn't gonna win me any points here on FR, but this is one I am OK with...adults should be able to smoke...no problem. But there is defintely something wrong with seeing parents puffing away on cigaretts with a few tiny little kids in the back seat having no choice in the matter...to me that is a form of child abuse. No doubt about it.

I see it all the time, and it is disgusting that someone should subject children to so much pollution at such a young age. Especially in the winter I have seen it without the car windows even open.

Does anyone really think that cigarettes don't cause health problems?

[Wolfie]

Please - where is the common sense?

Nowhere that I can see. But America's peculiar prediliction for Prohibition is well-documented.