IcyPatriot

KY proposes smoking ban in cars with kids - KLTV 7 News Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville |

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I don't think the necks will be happy about this.

DarrylS

Have issues with legislating a commonsense issue.. all this does is make for more difficult police work..

Pretty confident that if passed, there will be a load of unintended consequences..

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Mrs.PatsFanInVa

And I have issues with anyone trying to say a parent can't smoke a cigarette around their own child but they can (and do) carry semi-automatic weapons into schools, churches and fair grounds where other people's children are present with impunity.

Honestly (and I am only using these two people as examples because everyone knows them) if given a choice, I'd much rather my 9 year old daughter attend a birthday party for Sasha Obama and risk her dad lighting up in her presence than I would send her to visit with Willow Palin where she's liable to shoot herself with a stray moose gun left locked and loaded somewhere they thought the kids couldn't get to.

When they quit passing laws which allow people I don't know to carry guns into my kid's school they can start passing laws which tell me I can't smoke in a car with him, either.

chicowalker

I understand what you're saying, mrs, but the cigarette smoke, in an enclosed space, is clearly harmful. How harmful can be debated, but I don't think many people would dispute that it's harmful. A gun is not -- it has the potential to be devastating, but it's generally harmless.

I honestly have no idea what to think about this law, except that I wish it were unnecessary. Unfortunately, with some parents it isn't.

cupofjoe1962

I think it is about time somebody addressed this issue.

I grew up in a house of smokers and I suffered from bronchitis on a regular
basis. Years later I find out that 2nd hand smoke sure did not help my
bronchitis.

I remember my parents taking me on the Sunday drive as a child
Man I hated those Sunday drives in a car filled with cigarette smoke.
I remember being sick to my stomach from the smoke and my parents
called it "being car sick"..... yeah sick in a car because of 2nd hand smoke.

If you can't smoke in a bar or a restaurant, you should not be able to smoke
in a car with a child.

IcyPatriot

You think it would be in this day and age of all that we know.

IcyPatriot

I knew 3 people now deceased whose spouse's were heavy smokers ... they were non smokers ... all 3 died of throat cancer. I would hate to live with that guilt - I've never smoked (cigarettes) ... so i guess it's easy for me to say.

Neither my wife, myself or my kids smoke ... I like that.

PatriotsReign

ALL state should adopt this law. When I see a parent smoking with kids in the car, I feel like slapping them. It is, plain & simple...CHILD ABUSE

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cupofjoe1962

Smoking with your kids in your car should trigger a call to DSS.
This is a form of child abuse, when you put your own addiction ahead
of your childs health.

My father had a cabnet full of guns under lock and key.
The amo was locked in a safe away from the guns.

Trust me when I tell you.... cigarettes caused me much more harm
than the guns in our home.

Too bad they were not as responsible with their addictions, as they
were with the guns.

DarrylS

This makes no sense, police are already overburdened.. on a list of to do things on a shift this will probably come in at 122 or higher.

To make more laws that are difficult to enforce on an already burdened legal system makes little sense.. more government intervention never did much of anything.

Should people be smoking with children in cars?? Of course not, but not every issue falls into the purvue of law enforcement..

The less government intervention is usually better, to suggest it is a child welfare issue denotes a lack of knowledge in this field.. as the last thing these really expensive and overburded agencies need is to become involved with people who smoke cigarettes... what are you going to do put the kids in foster care because a parent smokes??? The courts do not need additional burdens either..

Both my parents died with a cigarette in their hands, and I smoked for almost 30 years before I quit 19 years ago.. my son finally, who is 37, quit about a month ago, but my daughter never did.. for the grace of god, no one has gotten cancer of the lungs in my family.

It is about choice, and making education avalable so people understand the consequence of their actions on others..

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