[SheLion]

Maine did this with Foster parents a few years back.

Maine:  Do not smoke if you're a foster parent!  The DHS says so!  It's ok if you sprawl on the couch at night drunk though!

DHS creates smoking rules for foster homes, vehicles

2-26-04 - article here

[sittnick]

The State of Maine is nuts!

The guy is in a convertible in a corn field! For all practical purposes, he is "outside".

When I think of what goes on in so many foster homes, and the shortage of good ones, I can't help but think that DHS wants to make their job harder (or impossible) so that they can get more funding.

[bwteim]

AND a 24 hour smoke free period in Maine ... Can't believe I missed that thread - I must have been driving my rug rats around in my convertible, without car safety seats, no seatbelt for myself, top down, smoking up a storm.

[sittnick]

You know, that Maine Public Service Announcement gets better!

Look at this blow-up of the front seat:



The seat backs are completely different on the front driver and passenger seats.

Also, now that I relocated from New England to Illinois, I have a pretty good idea what corn fields look like. The background looks very much like corn fields . . . but who the heck grows corn in Maine?!

Looks like photoshop and clip art strikes again!

[Uncle Meat]

Those cornfields are going to be perfect hiding places for the darling little angels to sneak daddy's cigerettes when he's sawing logs in his easy chair and not keeping an eye on them.

[gondramB]

Don't smoke when you are within 24 hours of having a child? that is nuts.

Hopefully though parents don't need to be told not to smoke around children.