Posted on 05/05/2006 6:11:02 AM PDT by BerniesFriend
Bill would ban people from smoking while children in the car
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Parents would have to stub out their cigarettes while their kids are in the car, under a bill headed to the Senate for debate.
The bill would prohibit anyone from lighting up a cigarette, cigar or pipe in a vehicle while a child required to be in a booster seat or car seat is riding along _ a child up to 60 pounds, or up to about eight years old.
The House approved the bill in a 66-31 vote.
Rep. Gary Smith, D-Norco, said he introduced the measure because he wants to prevent health problems that children can have from second hand smoke inhalation. He said children don't get a choice in whose cars they ride.
"I'm just trying to protect those who cannot protect themselves," he said.
Rep. Carla Dartez, D-Morgan City, said the bill infringes upon parents' rights to raise their children.
"I just think you're going a little too far in this Legislature when we can't allow parents of their own children to take care of their own children," she said.
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House Bill 1010 can be found at http://www.legis.state.la.us
Your arguments would be better received if you were to temper the language and the personal insults.
"I love the smell of hysteria in the morning."
LOL!
You might be wrong in your entire approach to the relationship between State Law and the Constitution of the United States.
Generally, if something is not specifically covered in the Constitution, it's left up to the States, individually. Remember, the States came first and created the U.S.
If the citizens of a State do not like the laws being passed by their legislature, the first and most natural and democratic recourse is to vote the rascals out.
Eric Lindros and Bob Dylan! I didn't know.
Oh. You meant Dylan Thomas and Eric the Red.
This isn't about "the children" this is about MONEY. Pure and simple! Just another way for the state to steal money. These people don't give one rats ass about "the children".
Your arguments would be better received if you were to temper the language and the personal insults.
Thank you!
Ah, no.........the two Columbine High School boys.
If only she'd had their charisma, their powers of persuasion, their sense of mission, think how much further she could have gone.
Yes, nuggets of hate hurled from the anonymous keyboard, spittle-flecked insults - this is the stuff of greatness!
On the other hand, I don't necessarily believe that children catching a whiff of cigar or cigarette smoke in a car with the windows down is any more harmful than the pollutants they're routinely exposed to on a daily basis.
A law like this opens a Pandora's Box: once passed, there's nothing that can't be banned next.
Rofl! Somebody slap the cuffs on that kid!
Here's a wedding pic of his Momma and Daddy a couple of weeks before he was borned.
ROFLMAO! Awww, you look exactly as I imagined you would! Love that mullet! :P
Whoever was raised by that family was hurt much more by the fact that his parents were poor white trash than by the smoking.
I am! My children are and are VERY healthy! An 84 year old family friend is not only alive, but is one of the healthiest people I have ever met and takes no medication. Most individuals alive today, over the age of 10-15, grew up around cigarette smoke.
Meanwhile, a 44 y/o relative died of lung cancer. She lived in a smoke-free home her entire life and her workplace was non-smoking.
Another relative is dead at 53. She never smoked, drank or whored (her words) around. She is dead, however.
Smoking around children increases their risk of harm. That is a bad thing. We should rightly describe it as "child abuse," but don't out of a misguided notion that it might offend the junkies who like to inhale shit into their lungs.
60 posted on 05/05/2006 7:55:05 AM PDT by WildHorseCrash
Wild horse CRAP!
Smoker's kids need to be protected from actions coming from this ignorance.
65 posted on 05/05/2006 8:00:31 AM PDT by Raycpa
Nothing worse than having to be around a smoker.
71 posted on 05/05/2006 8:02:05 AM PDT by RichardW
Richard has lived a privilege life, it seems.
That's the dumbest, most ignorant, illogical, inane and ridiculously stupid statement I've read on FreeRepublic in a while.
84 posted on 05/05/2006 8:15:23 AM PDT by WildHorseCrash
Then you haven't been reading FR much lately.
I hate to post and run, but I will leave you with this...
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
-Norman Thomas
Another relative is dead at 53. She never smoked, drank or whored (her words) around. She is dead, however.
It's the craziest thing. From what the anti's are spewing on the media and everywhere that smoking and second hand smoke is such a killer, when I, too, had a much different outlook to my growing up.
My one grandmother died at 42, full of cancer. She never smoked. I never knew her.
My grandfathers both smoked, and lived well into their 70's.
My other grandmother smoked 3 packs of unfiltered Camels a day and lived to be 86. So, from my experiences against what the anti's are spewing today, I just can't compute.
And you look at the obituary's every day..............the people dying are OLD.
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