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.
Oh, I bet we have some of those "professionals" here too.
Exactly what happened to me when I moved from NYC to Delaware.......had no clue what was going on, thought I had some kind of a major disease.
It's been an interesting discussion, but this has been a long, and right at the moment unhappy, day and so I will bid you all a fond goodnight. I expect this will get picked back up in the morning :)
I don't read EVERY thread and neither am I on here all the time. I just happen to know most of the rules here.
Unlike you, I really do have a life and don't have to lie about it.
My Friend, I am not arguing with you about your problem with tobacco smoke, please, I hope you understand that.
I'm so very sorry that you had an unhappy day.
See you again soon........pleasant dreams.
Yes I know that. ;9)
The fix here is simple, go to a flea market purchase a child restraint seat, some baby blankets, and a doll, set them in the back seat, and light up a nice fat stogie, and wait for the cops to pull you over. When enough cops get tired of pulling smokers over with baby dolls in the back seat the stupidity will end.
Probably.
Mud is good. :)
:-)
nite, Gabz :)
NYC to Dover, Delaware was only 160 miles, not exactly what I would call an extreme move - but for allergy city, it sure was (we won't discuss the supposed culture shock). Where I now live in Virginia is not much better, but of course the climate is the same as Dover, only there is more farm land and forests and I am surrounded by both :)
I'm a conservative living in Virginia and a liberal was just elected Governor - not a good day.............thanks for caring.
I really should hit the sack.
It's been fun talking with you, it's been a while.
Sorry about the election results. :-(
Go to bed...this topic was exhausted years ago, long before this thread ever was posted. Try to get a good night's rest.
yes, it's been a while...we were away, TWICE, in a span of two+ months time and I haven't been here all that much, since I've been back.
Could you *ping* me to that when you find it?
I will try to look for that article tomorrow. We had a miserable elections night....
Sulking on a NJ Thread.
Repeat that when you're posting at three in the morning. Night, sweet pea.
I knew two folks with asthma who started smoking to stop the attacks.
When my kids were little I was the "sterile" mom. Both my kids had asthma. When I sent them to stay for the summers with their smoking, wood stove burning, dozen cats, play in the hay mound grandma, the asthma would clear up. Within two weeks of coming home, they'd be wheezing again. I started smoking (not related to their health), got a couple of cats, insisted that they go outside and get dirty at least twice a week and stopped bleaching everything. Neither of them ever had another attack.
Same thing happened to my friend's daughter.
About five years ago workers began stuccoing the building I was living in. It took them two months and I had a *horrible* reaction to whatever they were spraying. The doctor was quite close to putting me in the hospital until they were done (we were living in Germany and I really had no other place to go), but they finished up right when we were at the breaking point. Inhalers helped a little. Breathing treatments, steroids, a half dozen other medicines just barely kept me going. But a cigarette... After a cigarette I was clear for a good half hour.
And one more thing... I've known dozens and dozens of smokers. I have never known a smoker who came down with lung cancer. I knew ONE who got emphysema at the age of 89 after smoking 2 packs a day of Camel filterless since he was 9 years old. He quit smoking (due to the illness) and died of a UTI five years later at the age of 94. NINTY FOUR! Crap! I'll take it!
I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, but I just don't believe that it's as common as everyone wants us to think.
And, tootsie, some of us have never been banned nor had to change our nics. ;^)
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