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.
There is no such law in Pa. The law that was passed forbids school bus drivers from smoking in their bus. No law against parents smoking in their car with their kids in it.
How sad for you and your grandchildren that their mother is so ill-informed.
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Cool!!!!!!!
I did what I could, my FRiend. Now we wait.
Why so hostile? A facts a fact. They didn't even know the word secondhand smoke when I was locked in a car full of smoke....and I wouldn't sue my parents. I truly believe that all that smoke harmed my lungs....sorry if you don't like 'my point'.
EXCUSE ME?????????
Aaaah,inhaling smoke will toughen the kids up.
Even some good parents smoke and they even raise good kids.
Your arrogance astonishes me.
Why don't you answer why your parents couldn't be bothered to roll the window down? And please don't hand me the NY winter thing, I live in Michigan.
First...we had roll down windows....so my parents didnt' roll them down.....and I remember more than once them telling me to roll them up since it was cold out. Don't you think that some kids can be damaged by years of smoke around them? Some kids have asthma....would you smoke around your kids if they have asthma?
The word "ban" sure seems to be used a lot these days by politicians in our country which is considered to be the land of the free....
A Republican nanny-stater. How is she any different than a liberal?
This is ludicrous and downright unamerican. We can't seem to forge our chains fast enough.
I'm not sure about the car exhaust, but I totally agree with you on the controlled air. That along with the anti-bacterial everything doesn't allow children to build up natural immunities to life's little infirmities.
The archaic, and assinine "no nits" policy of the school district when there is a break out of lice - which by the way is a policy derived from the Third Reich (just like the anti-smoker stuff) - has kept my daughter out of school more than any other reason. She is now in the 2nd grade and other than the stupid no nots policy, she has only missed 4 days of school since she started kindergarten.
OTOH one of her classmates nearly didn't make it to the 2nd grade last year because of all of his excess absences due to illness. I found out later that he is not permitted to go to the playground, he is constantly washing his hands, and basically just isn't permitted to be a kid.
I'm not exactly thrilled when mine comes in the house after playing in mud puddles, but it's not because she is filthy, just because I have to do the laundry :)
Phillip Morris has an agenda.......and they are protituting themselves to achieve it.
That's been the case in Pennsylvania for years.
Well then, perhaps reaping of revenue from cigarette tax should be maintained and legislation considered as to whether one is fit to have kids or not if they smoke should be the next step?
With some of the lame brained idea's making it through the law process lately to remove individual freedom from the picture, I wouldn't be surprised to see that as an agenda in the near future.
Smoking around anyone with asthma, if that is a trigger, is not something anyone should do........however smoking around anyone does NOT cause the asthma.
Yeah, I think they tacked it on to the bill outlawing common decency.
How about a ban on pull the finger.
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