Lighting up with young kids in vehicle banned under bill

House Bill 1046 started out as a joke to just about everyone but Bob Mathis. And now it’s his turn to laugh.

The Hot Springs Democrat and reformed smoker spent much of this week in strong opposition to a bill to ban smoking in most workplaces.

It was a Mathis amendment that came close to killing that bill, says Gov. Mike Huckabee, the primary supporter of the measure.

So when Mathis filed a bill Wednesday evening to ban smoking in cars carrying young children who are restrained in car seats, a lot of people laughed. They didn’t take him or his bill very seriously, Mathis says.

Junk science scam. See:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,26109,00.html

"Thirty-three studies on secondhand smoke had been completed by 1993. More than 80 percent of the studies reported no association between secondhand smoke and lung cancer, including the largest of the studies."

Thanks for that link. I didn't have it.

That is what burns me up about the media. They allow all the lies and spin from the anti's about second hand smoke killing everyone, yet the media won't bring out these links and the truth. And the general non-smoking public believes that SHS is killing them. Fox might say they are fair and balanced, but when it comes to the truth about second hand smoke, even FOX isn't being honest to us.

Oak Ridge Labs, TN & SECOND HAND SMOKE

Statistics and Data Sciences Group Projects

I think any anti who tries to dismiss the findings of the U.S. Department of Energy labs at Oak Ridge, should be confronted with the question: "Are you saying that DOE researchers committed scientific fraud and that their findings on ETS exposure are untrue?"But where does this Taliban-like anti-smoking campaign come from? It can't really be this stuff about second-hand smoke. The famous 1992 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study showing a causal relationship between second-hand smoke and cancer was so roundly debunked as junk science (even by other federal agencies) it was finally declared "null and void" by a federal judge. Sure, second-hand smoke can be annoying, and it can't be healthy, but if you relegate smokers to their own enclosed space _ say a bar or a separate part of a restaurant where people, including staff, only go of their own free will _ who can object?

Why do you suppose this is? They are trying to destroy the idea of car as an extension of the home. Started with laws about open containers. Then to firearms in the car. Then to cell phones. Now to smoking.
After cars are taken care of, it will be the home.
They have already started trying, starting with smoking.
The ultimate goal is to destroy private property without ever saying that's what they are doing, and without a mind-numbed public ever realizing it.

"This is total and utter BS!"

Amen to that. How much more can people take? These idiots are running amok, introducing these insane Orwellian bills on the floors in our houses of representation. When will we have had enough? This is beyond smoking, this is a total invasion of your privacy. And just think, there are idiots out there applauding this. This is where it all will lead.

Exactly right!

I and many others like me, have had it. The more these socialists/communists impose these ridiculous rules and regulations, that impose on our basis God Given rights, in ever area of our lives.........the more we say "Count me out" I and those like me are saying exactly that to eating out in restaurants, contributing to causes we find out are anti American, be it businesses or govt., turning our back to all the homosexual propaganda in every way possible (like children throwing tantrums, without an audience there is no one to hear and see it, which is their goal) and even count me out of public education.

I do wonder how far America will be pushed before everyone has had enough, and people start to revolt. From the looks of things, not much farther!

"I do wonder how far America will be pushed before everyone has had enough, and people start to revolt. From the looks of things, not much farther!"

I wonder that everytime I read of this insanity. I think most folks really don't care, and that's a dirty shame. I for one, have had enough. I don't think there is many people left with the gumption to make a real change. Just look at the loons we have elected now. It seems to never end.

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