And exactly how many children have died from second-hand smoke???
Can't really imagine why you'd *want* to smoke in a car with kids around...
Now the foster child problem becomes larger....wonder how many of these kids will be taken into the homes of these do gooders?
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Foster parents work for the state and thus must follow the rules set down by the state regarding smoking in the workplace.
Anyone want to ping our favorite FReeper and White House hopeful to this thread?? Mike Huckabee was the architect of the "Clean Air Act" here in Arkansas. Thanks, Mike. You've saved so many lives... /s
nanny state ping?
I've posted full article - access @ www.RightBias.com
"We" (smokers) have been warning all for years now, that the smoking-nazis will NOT be satisfied until they usurp all of our rights--even in our own homes.
Can see it now: Much as the 88 year old woman who had her door kicked in, shot at the idiot LEA and was killed in the process, it will not be long before a busy-body neighbor drops a dime on one of their neighbors who are smoking and on that anonymous "tip" the jackboots will execute a "no-knock" warrant (got to preserve the evidence, don't you know, and can't give a person a chance to destroy the evidence)and arrest a parent who is smoking if there are "chillens" on premises.
CAN'T ANYONE SEE THAT THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SMOKING, AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH "POWER AND CONTROL???"
Go ahead and laugh. Today its prohibiting a person from smoking in their home; tomorrow it will be someone arrested for providing one of their children with a Big Mac, Large Fries and Super Size Coke or anything which has Trans Fatty Acids.
Nanny state run amok. Let's build more prisons.
In the mean time, "Beam Me Up Scotty!!!"
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Only when one focuses, clear-eyed and in literal detail, on the centrality and depth of the behavioral changes necessary to improve health does the immensity of the task become apparent. We are not talking about peripheral or infrequent aspects of human behavior but about some the most basic and often experienced aspects of life: what one eats, how often and how much; how long, how regular, and how peacefully one sleeps, whether one smokes or drinks and how much; even the whole question of personality. Health, then... is a product of innumerable decisions made every day by millions of people. To over see these decisions would call for a larger bureaucracy than anyone has yet conceived and methods of surveillance bigger than big brother. The seat-belt buzzer that screeches at us if we do not modify one small bit of behavior would be but mild harbinger of the restraints necessary to change bad health habits.
Look what Ohio is asking citizens to do: http://www.odh.ohio.gov/ASSETS/50F0940288AA4C57A44965B6543027FC/NoSmokingColor.pdf
Count the number of Freepers who think this is good because they personally hate smoking.
Welcome to Free (as long as you don't smoke or drink or whatever my personal pet peeve is) Republic.
I thought this stupidity was from California--Surprise, it's Texas!!!!
Niconazis on the march.
How do places like Texas pass these laws?
Time to leave cigars in public parks with matches handy.....
And while I am at it maybe hang out around the local 7-11 and ask the little tykes if they need anyone to buy beer for them!
By the time the 'do gooders' get done perfecting big government and safety fascism this world won't be worth living in any more....