Calif. bans smoking in cars with kids…S-CHIP expansionists’ heads explode
From Michelle Malkin: Calif. bans smoking in cars with kids…S-CHIP expansionists’ heads explode
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. But the traffic stop would have to be made for another offense, such as speeding or an illegal turn, before the driver could be cited for smoking.
The ban, which takes effect Jan. 1, joins a string of smoking prohibitions adopted in California, including a ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces and within 25 feet of a playground.
Briefly, true story, I swear, while riding the back of my parents car on one of our long road trips, while struggling to breathe, I told my father that one day smoking in a car with a kid in the back should be and would be one day made illegal!
He thought I was being ridiculous, said that I was overreacting, and told me that if the government ever restricted what he did as a parent from spanking his child to smoking in his own car the world in essence would be coming to an end. He also said that regardless of how you feel about smoking you should never support allowing the government to dictate how you live your life on any matter.
Well my reply today is not that profound, and some of y’all might be shocked by what I’m about to bang out on this keyboard, but if you have a kid and you choose to poison them with your nasty ass habit(s), I’ll just chalk your kids pending illness and potential death to gene pool eradication.
Now some of you who are still bitching and moaning about smoking in public places as far as I’m concerned fuck you, I am so happy that I can go to a restaurant and not smell nasty ass cigarette smoke and can enjoy my meal.
I’ve said countless times I don’t understand the selfishness behind people who smoke in restaurants.
Now bars well that tis different, they are for the bored and lonely masses, a place to try and “hook-up” and its stressful trying to decide whether or not to make that first move.
Others use bars to find that personal refuge from family, nagging wives, girlfriends or irritating kids, others to wind down after a hard day at work. Yes Snoop understands I’m not a total smoking Nazi.
Now although I find smoking exceedingly repugnant, banning it in your car or your residence is going overboard. However if I were a landlord, I would charge extra for smoking, just like I would for having a pet. I of course would never buy a vehicle that was smoked in, or purchase a home from people who smoked.
However I don’t agree with the recently passed ordinance in a California town that prohibits smoking in multi-family dwellings, but thumbs up to what is being proposed by some employers, making folks pay higher health premiums who smoke.
It simply goes back to personal responsibility, if you choose to smoke yourself and your kids to death have at it. If I can’t smell your smoke, have at it, feel free to coat those lungs with tar and have little Billy light up with ya.
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