Dark-tint all windows, except the windshield, if legal in your state.
Smoking crack in cars in the inner-cities is okay, but cigarettes are not.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Nanny State PING!
Hey......that liberty thing?
Forget about it!
Liberty is a fad that has passed its time.
Most people will gladly give up their freedom in exchange for the right to mind their neighbor’s business.
Incrementalism marches on.
Lies, lies, and more lies.
In absolutely pure car where no one has ever smoked all passengers are exposed to unsafe levels of toxins whether the windows are open or not.
Just put the kids in a bubble the day they are born and be done with it.
My mom smoked a lot when I was a child,
and my lung feels great !!!
For now. Just wait a couple of years and it will be $1000.00 fine plus jail time. Mark my word.
Perfectly legal to purchase them however as long as the 300% tax on them is paid.
How did these brilliant from birth politicians come up with "8 years old" I wonder?
Maryland Corruption Risk Report Card: Overall grade D-61% / Rank among 50 states 40. Ranked 50th in Personal Freedoms.
http://www.stateintegrity.org/maryland
“Hell is coming to breakfast” - from The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Next they will regulate the size of your turds and probably tax them accordingly.
Of course not as long as one is licensed to drive and the vehicle is licensed and the baby has a social security number and you have insurance and you have paid your taxes and you are clean while driving and you can prove the baby is yours and you aren't carrying a tool of self defense and not carrying more than $10,000 cash and you have a catalytic converter and an approved baby carrier is installed in the vehicle and you can prove where you are driving to and you don't have any wants or warrants.
Eating a big fat greasy cheesburger with a young child in a car will be next.
Then it will be eating a big fat greasy cheesburger in a car.
Then it will be eating a big fat greasy cheesburger.
A city in my state want 12 year olds to have free condoms dished out at school and Maryland passes a no smoking in cars bill - what a strange universe we live in.....
Crack a Window and Keep your Pants Zipped
Oh for simpler times.......
The same senators so concerned about the effects of second hand smoke on children probably voted for full term abortion ‘rights’.
God save the Republic from nanny state idiots.
Another well-intentioned screwup by the commie libs. People will just leave their kids “home alone”. Great job Commies!!!
I’m not saying I support this particular plan. And the risk is that your house is next, since your child is obviously stuck in the closed house with the smoke as well.
But I disagree that this is purely a liberty issue. The argument for liberty only applies if you first dismiss the opinion that the smoke is harmful to the child.
I will argue that point from a slightly different analogy. Suppose a parent decided to punish their child by putting them in a closet with a set of burning cigarettes, so as to cause the child distress and coughing from a lack of fresh air. I think many would agree that forcing a child to breathe smoky air as a punishment would be something we might be interested in correcting.
A person’s liberty does not extend to causing harm to others, especially not trapped children who have no way to avoid the harm.
Which raises another question — does a 7-year-old have the right to object to having to breathe smoky air in a closed car? I have a neighbor who smokes all the time, and her daughter used to ask my son if we could drive her to school all the time, because she couldn’t stand the cigarette smoke from her mother smoking in the car. A law like this would have protected her without her having to somehow stand up to her mother and object to the smoke.
I know I wouldn’t want to be trapped in a car with a smoker. My mother smoked, but since I haven’t been around smoke for a long time, my tolerance for it has decreased quite a bit. I don’t ask people not to smoke, I just avoid being around them. But a 7-year-old doesn’t get that choice.
I think we miss the boat when we argue that any harm against a child can be dismissed with an appeal to the liberty of the parent.