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You do realize that every ban takes away control from the people and puts that control in the hands of the state, right?
Please detail exactly what "control" you've "lost" regarding this ban?
Yes. Just as car seat laws greatly reduced the amount of children/babies riding unrestrained in the car. I know for a fact that those like my father would not smoke in his car and drive if he was worried about breaking a law and possibly being fined for it. He might be upset about it, but he would still obey the law. And this is how a lot of people are.
If I rolled my eyes as much as that statement required they'd pop out of my sockets.
Ask them to explain the orange/yellow crap that's all over the inside of car. :roll: That is getting into baby's lungs!
My thinking exactly.
Just how much government intervention and interdiction in our lives are we suppose to tolerate? Gotta draw a line someplace that the government can't cross.
Meanwhile, in California, I think it's illegal to smoke in your own backyard. So much for your house being your castle.
Obamacare will make everything the govt want to make illegal, illegal. They will control everything that happens in your home under the guise of healthcare.
The cutoff age should be when the person has reached an age where they are no longer obligated (ethically, socially, by force of law) to obey their parents, whatever that age is in their state.Smoking while driving with kids under 8 now illegal in Maryland - NY Daily News
I'm here to say - I can't find fault with this at all, except for wondering why 8 years old is the cut off. Why not 12 or 14? Why 8?
Who here will defend the right of the adult to subject their child to smoke inside a confined space like a car?
Obamacare will make everything the govt want to make illegal, illegal. They will control everything that happens in your home under the guise of healthcare.
So you are stating that wind blowing by a slightly open window does not create a vacuum?
I'm stating that you pulled the first science-y sounding phrase you found off the internet and thought it would sound persuasive (spoiler alert: it wasn't very persuasive).
Does the argument behind this work in the home?
I'm not saying you should be able to smoke anywhere and everywhere, but a car is private property. That's only a step away from saying you can't smoke in your house.
Only a mobile home.
While it's mobile, of course.
How do you know that I am not science-y, and in fact did not turn to the web.
Hmm?
Not legal to smoke in your own home has already been accomplished in parts of California.
Slippery slope meets black abyss.
Because everyone here over the age of 16 has cracked a window (or has been a passenger where someone has cracked a window) and it doesn't work.
.would someone... Please... Think of the children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because I know people and the point of laws, particularly laws such as this. The point is deterrence.
Except you don't know there will be less, you hope there will be.
Are there really people who would defend their right to smoke in a small closed environment with children? I cant beleive someone would really want to do it to start with, but defend it?
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