[Great Dane]

"We've got to start somewhere," he said.

What a comment.......... after 10 years of anti smokism.

[Max McGarrity]

Two bills like this have been introduced in New York state, along with one to ban smoking on beaches and in parks. Antis have their panties ALL in a wad...must be trying to get it all done before they lose all their funding.

[JudgemAll]

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,"

No visible crime or harm has been comited and they want a misdeamenor? What is this? Fascist land? Talk about overkill and treating honorable worse than dangerous criminals.

Repeat after me: the government shall not have my time and spaces and goods management.

[wayoverontheright]

"This is just protecting the kids from secondhand smoke," Smith said. "It's damaging to adults and it's even more dangerous to children."

What study shows second-hand smoke to be more dangerous than "first-hand" smoke?

This is a LIE isn't it?

Of course, this is a DEMOCRAT isn't it?

And his lips were MOVING weren't they?

[talleyman]

The misdemeanor would carry a fine and include cigars, cigarettes and pipes.

Aha! The Tipparello loophole!

[arielb]

Parents have the right to kill their kids don't you know? Abortion is legal and this is merely post-term abortion.

[jjhunsecker]

I am sure someone else has covered this but just how will this be enforced??
It's like here in Arkansas where you have to wear a seat belt, well just like smoking in a car it is a unenforceable law. The only people who get ticketed are those stopped for another reason or have been involved in a wreck. The smae will be true of smoking in a car. I guess when it close to the end of the month and the cops don't have their quota they will set up raod blocks in the cities and highways to find those people and fine them or better yet let's just have "Big Brother" in the car, camera, and control your life that way. Where the "HELL" does it all end????????

[qam1]

You know I am going to be driving through Georgia later this year and if this law passes just to piss off the locals I think I will do what people do when they want to drive in the HOV lanes and get a little kid dummy and drive around with my windows up puffing away. Hell to really piss them off I will smoke a cigar instead of a cigarette.

[SamAdams76]

Unfortunately the American people have allowed the government to take away their freedoms incrementally. A little bit here and a little bit there. Eventually, Big Brother is in your own home, telling you what to do like a nagging mother-in-law.

While I'll take some flack for saying this, the problem lies mostly with women. Women are much quicker then men to give up their freedoms inch by inch in the name of safety. This is because women are more emotionally vulnerable to claims that children or other innocents might be harmed by somebody else's actions. And since women outnumber men, they've got the votes to make it happen.

[Born in a Rage]

A car is private property and cigarettes are legal and it doesn't impair driving abilities....if they can pass a law making it illegal to posses a legal product in someones private property without ANY proof of even doing so on the grounds of an immediate safety concern....then this country is in serious trouble. It would set a precedent and any other legal product being used or being in or being on a citizens private property is at risk. What's next?

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

"Longer living through more stringent legislation. Or else!"

[VRWC_minion]

About time.