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Bill Would Ban Smoking In Car With Kids
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Posted on 01/31/2003 7:38:52 AM PST by chance33_98
Bill Would Ban Smoking In Car With Kids
Georgia Democrat Proposes Bill To State House
POSTED: 9:47 a.m. EST January 31, 2003
ATLANTA -- Smoking in a car carrying a child would be illegal under a bill proposed Thursday in the Georgia House of Representatives.
Democrat Paul Smith proposed the bill to make it a misdemeanor to smoke in a vehicle where a child is restrained in a car seat. The misdemeanor would carry a fine and include cigars, cigarettes and pipes.
"This is just protecting the kids from secondhand smoke," Smith said. "It's damaging to adults and it's even more dangerous to children."
Smith said he knew of no other state with such a law but is optimistic the Legislature will consider the smoking bill.
"We've got to start somewhere," he said.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: antismoking; nannystate; pufflist; smoking
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To: Wolfie
It takes a village :)
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posted on
01/31/2003 8:47:36 AM PST
by
chance33_98
(Freedom is not Free)
To: chance33_98
If by village, you mean Police State, you're correct.
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posted on
01/31/2003 8:49:56 AM PST
by
Wolfie
(Yes, I said Police State - how else to enforce this kind of crap?)
To: chance33_98
well said
beautiful!
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posted on
01/31/2003 8:53:15 AM PST
by
hapy
To: chance33_98
Can we ban Democrat Paul Smith?
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posted on
01/31/2003 8:53:54 AM PST
by
ewing
To: chance33_98
"This is just protecting the kids...Mmmm, seems I've seen this before. Deja Vu??
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posted on
01/31/2003 8:54:15 AM PST
by
EGPWS
To: chance33_98
A logical next step would be rolling down the window of your car with a child occupant, when there is another car emitting exhaust infront of you, or driving with a child in an area that had been set on fire by the Forest Services as a "controlled burn." It's all about control and not about pollution.
To: chance33_98
This goes to show that the five most beautiful words in the English language are those that begin the First Amendment, "Congress shall pass no law...." and the scariest phrase in the English language is "I have introduced legislation."
To: Gerish
Please - where is the common sense?Walk up to the window, open it, place your hands firmly on the sill, and look out! THEN you may find some common sense! :)
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posted on
01/31/2003 8:59:38 AM PST
by
EGPWS
To: chance33_98
"Officer, did you see that drunken driver weaving all over the road. Sorry lady, I haven't met my quota of smokers yet today"
To: Wolfie
If by village, you mean Police State, you're correct. Pretty much - just wait until Hillary gets in power. I think Nostrodamus mentioned her are histlery... :)
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posted on
01/31/2003 9:01:50 AM PST
by
chance33_98
(Freedom is not Free)
To: freeper12
It all depends on which you think is more important, "health" or freedom. Obviously, you have made your choice. Feel free not to smoke in your car. If you want to put me in jail for smoking in my car, just get out of my country. Don't bring your socialist heritage into America. PS: If one is smoking with the windows closed, the vent system will exhaust the smoke - that's one of the things it's designed to do.
To: tubebender
"Officer, did you see that drunken driver weaving all over the road. Sorry lady, I haven't met my quota of smokers yet today" It will get even better. I heard a doctor talking to a woman one day about smoking. She said she smoked outside and never around her kids - he said it did not matter as it got on your clothes and still affected them...so if they pull you over for something and you have a car seat and no kid, they will probably cite you anyway.
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posted on
01/31/2003 9:03:34 AM PST
by
chance33_98
(Freedom is not Free)
To: Carry_Okie
"We've got to start somewhere," he said.That line jumped out at you, too, eh? I'm not a smoker, but wow...
To: Ides of March
Bill Would Ban Smoking In City-limits With Kids They tried this in a town in mryland a bit over a year ago. The Mayor that proposed and pushed for it claimed that seeing adults smoking was a bad influence on the children. The ordinance was overturned.
The Mayor was later arrested for fondling a boy in the men's room of the Washington Cathedral.
Yet he claimed smokers are a bad influence on children, SHEESH.
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posted on
01/31/2003 9:06:52 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Anti-smokers speak with forked tongues.)
To: henderson field
I don't care if you smoke in your car...I don't think you should smoke in you car with kids in it; kids that have no say in the matter...I thought that was what we were talking about, no?
>>It all depends on which you think is more important, "health" or freedom.
How about the freedom of kids to grow up without asthma or lung cancer from negligent parents?
To: henderson field
>>just get out of my country.
YOur country?...thats a laugh.
To: freeper12
my mother smoked and still does like a chimney. I have no health problems
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posted on
01/31/2003 9:09:19 AM PST
by
hapy
To: mr.pink
I am sure someone wonderidiot somewhere has already thought that that would be a nice law. For the children. of course. < /gag>
To: chance33_98
Paul Smith clearly doesn't have enogh productive work to do and should be removed from the government payroll
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posted on
01/31/2003 9:13:00 AM PST
by
Moleman
To: freeper12
I see it all the time, and it is disgusting that someone should subject children to so much pollution at such a young age. The air in L.A. yesterday was a lovely beige shade. If you live here, you are subjected to bad air all the time. No one here is whining. Well, at least no one with a brain.
And what is next, banning smoking in the home?
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