Calif. Bans Smoking in Cars With Kids

[uscitizen]

Calif. Bans Smoking in Cars With Kids

By STEVE LAWRENCE
Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California motorists will risk fines of up to $100 next year if they are caught smoking in cars with minors, making their state the third to protect children in vehicles from secondhand smoke.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday signed a bill that will make it an infraction to smoke in a vehicle if someone under age 18 is present

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCHWARZENEGGER_BILLS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

 

[Cancel7]

I'm not really against this. I think it's pretty stupid to smoke in such closed quarters with a child there. I've seen people doing that with really young children, toddlers and infants. I don't know. Do you think it's a bad thing?

 

[Damocles]

It sounds reasonable. The kids have no recourse to choose other transport.

 

[DigitalDave]

It's a toss up. Lot's of people smoke with their window cracked so the smoke escapes the vehicle. The motion of the car makes the window like a vacuum and the smoke immediatly escapes the vehicle. My dad used to open the wing window on his pickup and it had that same effect. I never delt with his smoke while in the car, it was actually less likely to effect me than if I were standing next to him outdoors.

 

[uscitizen]

I don't smoke in the car if any non smokers are with me. Of course in KY kids start smoking at 10.

 

[Epicurus]

Oh for fucks sake has no one heard of rolling down a window?

 

[uscitizen]

does not matter. There is no window in the 25' no smoking zone around a playground is there ?
Or the within 75' of a doorway to a business law in Lexington KY and other counties in the state.
Ahnuld is a real conservative . The cons in Ca were fooled really good on him.

 

[AnyOldIron]

ROFLMAO!!!

This is the dumbest thing I've seen in ages.

Protecting kids from smoke when they are sitting in cars, amongst traffic, with all the carcinogens they kick out!!!1fucking1!!!

I'd like to say only in America, but I reckon such stupidity will come over the pond soon....

Fuck's sake...

 

[AnyOldIron]

Cooking food at high temperatures, for example broiling or barbecuing meats, can lead to the formation of minute quantities of many potent carcinogens that are comparable to those found in cigarette smoke (i.e., benzopyrene).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogen#Carcinogens_in_prepared_food

 

[cawacko]

does not matter. There is no window in the 25' no smoking zone around a playground is there ?
Or the within 75' of a doorway to a business law in Lexington KY and other counties in the state.
Ahnuld is a real conservative . The cons in Ca were fooled really good on him.

No one was fooled. Arnold has never presented himself as anything other than he is.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Calif. Bans Smoking in Cars With Kids

By STEVE LAWRENCE
Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California motorists will risk fines of up to $100 next year if they are caught smoking in cars with minors, making their state the third to protect children in vehicles from secondhand smoke.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday signed a bill that will make it an infraction to smoke in a vehicle if someone under age 18 is present

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCHWARZENEGGER_BILLS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

Awww...



That's how I used to get my nicotine high...

 

[Cancel5]

I'm not really against this. I think it's pretty stupid to smoke in such closed quarters with a child there. I've seen people doing that with really young children, toddlers and infants. I don't know. Do you think it's a bad thing?

Why a law though, can you legislate common sense? My father smoked when we were young, but never in the house and never in the car! He would have one when we got out somewhere, but tried to do it very little in front of us.

Why can't people just think for themselves, must we have laws for everything?
It is more confusing then Dueteronomy.

 

[Cancel5]

oh, that is just too much...I can see you hanging over the back seat huffin!

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Why a law though, can you legislate common sense? My father smoked when we were young, but never in the house and never in the car! He would have one when we got out somewhere, but tried to do it very little in front of us.

Why can't people just think for themselves, must we have laws for everything?
It is more confusing then Dueteronomy.

People should just think for themselves about stealing, murder, and rape, too. Why must we have laws on this stuff?

 

[Cancel5]

People should just think for themselves about stealing, murder, and rape, too. Why must we have laws on this stuff?

Yes, they should, but those are on a little more serious note. I think if it was that hazardous that many more of us would have ling troubles than do.
I remember a lot of people riding around in cars smoking with the windows rolled up on cold days. If they could show a direct link to children's deaths, then I would support it.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

...

It IS hazardous to their health.

For christsake, does it have to kill them to be hazardous?

 

[LadyT]

well, I for one am against this. This is step back in the war on children.

 

[Battleborne]

Hummm.............

Yes, they should, but those are on a little more serious note. I think if it was that hazardous that many more of us would have ling troubles than do.
I remember a lot of people riding around in cars smoking with the windows rolled up on cold days. If they could show a direct link to children's deaths, then I would support it.

and these nasty libs praised Arnie the terminator...for his just cause or lack of...I wonder if this applies to his Cuban Cigars in his limos?

 

[uscitizen]

So we gonna ban cars ?
Or raising children next to highways ?

http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?t=2945&highlight=stunted

 

[ib1yysguy]

String would argue that you can't actually prove second hand smoke is harmful.