This little gem buried in the article caught my eye.
Well, no one smokes IN a Day Care Center. But the ones run by Mom's in their own privately owned homes will now be forbidden to smoke.
It's much more insidious than you think.
Current law forbids smoking around children in day-care centers including those in private homes. Understandable, acceptable situation.
What this does is brings it to the point that other household members are not permited to smoke in their own rooms behind a closed door during the hours of the day-care operation.
My daughter goes to a home-school pre-school program in a private home - which according to the state is a home day-care center.
My daughter is the last one picked up on Friday afternoon and there have been many a Friday where we have all sat around the table (teacher, her husband me and my husband) and chatted and smoked a cigarette. Because it was before 5pm and there was still a child there, had a state inspector shown up she could have been cited. And that's under the current law.
With the new one, if her husband gets home from work and goes back to the bedroom and closes the door, a state inspector is permitted to open that door prior to 5pm and if he is smoking, he will be cited. It's out of control.