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Illegal in Arkansas to Smoke in a Vehicle With A Minor? (What was that about a free country?)
June 2, 2006

Posted on 06/02/2006 5:40:02 PM PDT by sweetliberty

I heard today as I was getting ready to leave work that as of today, it is illegal in the state of Arkansas to smoke in a private vehicle with a minor or on the premises of any business establishment frequented by minors. Does anybody have any more detailed information on this? If true, this is an outrage! Not unexpected, but an outrage nevertheless. Before we know it, we will have to have prior government approval to use a public restroom.


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KEYWORDS: arkansas; bigbrotheriswatching; freecountry; freedom; governmentintrusion; govwatch; huckabee; individualrights; libertarians; nannystate; privateproperty; pufflist
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Oh, and as I understand it, our "illustrious" Gov. Huckabee (RINO) supports this further government usurption of individual rights and liberties.
1 posted on 06/02/2006 5:40:06 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: goldensky; faux_hog; FmrMarine; Former; General Albert Pike; geram; glockxgray; gogirlgo; ...

Arkansas ping!


2 posted on 06/02/2006 5:41:32 PM PDT by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile.)
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To: sweetliberty

While I'm behind you 100 percent on the nanny state aspect of this, I do think it's a lousy idea to smoke with kids in the car.


3 posted on 06/02/2006 5:45:41 PM PDT by JennysCool (Auxiliary Member of the Anaheim Azusa and Cucamonga Sewing Circle Book Review and Timing Association)
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To: sweetliberty

Does that mean you'll no longer be able to blow smoke into your infant's face at a stoplight? Bummer.


4 posted on 06/02/2006 5:45:58 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: gcruse

Although I agree it's a horrible idea to smoke with kids in the car, what happens when they decide you can't eat Twinkies around minors? Or drink Coke? After all, it's for the children...
This is none of the government's business.


5 posted on 06/02/2006 5:49:45 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Going armed to the terror of the public.)
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To: JennysCool; gcruse
I think it's a bad idea to smoke in a car with kids (or adults either, for that matter) with the windows closed, but a crack in the window sucks the smoke out. This is extreme. Period.

By the way, I don't smoke.

6 posted on 06/02/2006 5:50:37 PM PDT by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile.)
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To: sweetliberty
Illegal in Arkansas to Smoke in a Vehicle With A Minor? (What was that about a free country?)

WHAT! DEPORT HIM NOW MR. BUSH!!!


/Raving Lunatic OFF

/Sarc
7 posted on 06/02/2006 5:51:15 PM PDT by HHKrepublican_2
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To: gcruse
Does that mean you'll no longer be able to blow smoke into your infant's face at a stoplight? Bummer.

People died on the beaches of Normandy so you could do just that. Anyone that supports laws like this are spitting on the graves of those who died in Normandy and elsewhere around the world.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Huckabee can go to #ell.
8 posted on 06/02/2006 5:53:09 PM PDT by microgood (Truth is not contingent)
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To: sweetliberty

They banned that in CA a while back.


9 posted on 06/02/2006 5:53:30 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: sweetliberty; SheLion; Gabz; Just another Joe
This is just another goobermint way of raising revenoo. Guess the TAXES on tobacco aren't raising enuff revenoo to satisfy the jackboot goobermint.

The "Johnson&PleasureMound" tax is next. We'll all be wearing goobermint mandated chastity belts, and no "foolin'round" until you drop a silver dollar in the slot. The goobermint guy will come around and collect it monthly, or in my case, yearly.

FMCDH(BITS)

10 posted on 06/02/2006 5:55:24 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: HHKrepublican_2
/Raving Lunatic OFF

Oh, I just hate it when you turn off the Raving Lunatic mode. It just makes the rest of the post so much more boring.

11 posted on 06/02/2006 5:56:08 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Why isn't there an "NRA" for the rest of my rights?)
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To: microgood

*standing ovation*


12 posted on 06/02/2006 6:00:45 PM PDT by Freedom Dignity n Honor (There are permanent moral truths.)
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They have this commerical here in CO where a teenage boy is sitting there with his little brother--maybe 5 years old. The older brother is talking to the camera (supposed to be his dad) about how bad it was when he was growing up that the dad smoked around him and he couldn't do anything about it and to think twice before doing it around his little brother. The commerical is so dire and serious you would think they were accusing the dad of being a child molestor. My goodness, a parent SMOKES around a child--what is the world coming to.


13 posted on 06/02/2006 6:00:56 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: JennysCool; SheLion; Gabz; Just another Joe
While I'm behind you 100 percent on the nanny state aspect of this, I do think it's a lousy idea to smoke with kids in the car.

So do I, and 99% of my friends are smokers, and they would no more do that than smoke in their own homes with children about. That's the truth.

FMCDH(BITS)

14 posted on 06/02/2006 6:01:25 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: beaversmom

My dad smoked around me. I didn't know it was so horrible. After not being around it for years, I will try to avoid someone when they are smoking. Unless someone is just a jerk, most smokers I have seen try to avoid blowing smoke toward anyone.


15 posted on 06/02/2006 6:06:09 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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NANNY STATE PING.........

Blowing smoke in the face of a child, or anyone for that matter, is just downright wrong........but not as downright wrong as this.


16 posted on 06/02/2006 6:18:25 PM PDT by Gabz (Proud to be a WalMartian --- beep)
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To: microgood
People died on the beaches of Normandy so you could do just that. Anyone that supports laws like this are spitting on the graves of those who died in Normandy and elsewhere around the world.

You really believe anyone going into Normandy that fateful day did it to permit someone to smoke in a car with a Child? I won't ask you who fought to ensure we didn't have to wear seat belts or helmets...

17 posted on 06/02/2006 6:20:05 PM PDT by MACVSOG68
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To: sweetliberty

More of the phony "second hand smoke" hysteria.


18 posted on 06/02/2006 6:24:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: sweetliberty

today your car tommorrow your house.

HOW DARE YOU ABUSE YOUR CHILD BY NOT BEING A VEGITARIAN!!!


19 posted on 06/02/2006 6:29:56 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: MACVSOG68
You really believe anyone going into Normandy that fateful day did it to permit someone to smoke in a car with a Child? I won't ask you who fought to ensure we didn't have to wear seat belts or helmets...

Do you really believe they fought or died for anyone to tell someone else the state knows better than you do how to live your life????????

20 posted on 06/02/2006 6:31:36 PM PDT by Gabz (Proud to be a WalMartian --- beep)
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