My neighbor buys her 16 year old son cigarettes. He chain smokes them all day long. He goes to special* school so he's home all day. I know that he can't buy them - that's illegal. Is it illegal for his mother or another adult to give them to him? Is it illegal for him to smoke them?
*Does not go to school. Has a "nervous condition" which is why his mother allows the smoking. His teeth are the color of Kahlua. =)
2006-10-04 11:03:19 · 16 answers · asked by lazykins 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
By law minors can't buy cancer sticks, but no laws forbid a legal guardian from indulging them in that way, unlike the fact that they might get into hot water for letting them drink.
Providing alcohol to a minor is a criminal offence, and I don't think there are allowances for guardians anywhere there are such laws. Providing tobacco is not, though somebody who is not a guardian could get nailed on generalist controlled substance laws. Of course, letting an 8 year old smoke could get you in hot water with child support services, but a 16 yo... unlikely, unless there are additional medical or psychiatric issues involved.
2006-10-04 11:28:08 · answer #1 · answered by Svartalf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Call Family and Children Services.
2006-10-04 18:07:57 · answer #2 · answered by Hannah B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is illegal ,but sometimes the parents that smoke leave the cigarrets box around in the house and dont see when they take some of them I think that they follow our examples.
2006-10-04 18:23:57 · answer #3 · answered by kamala 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I would think this would be illegal. What kind of parent gives their kids cigarettes to her child. She might as well say go ahead get lung cancer.
2006-10-04 18:21:02 · answer #4 · answered by momdadand4kids 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but it's hard to prove that it happened. She and the boy could just say the boy bought them or got them elsewhere.
2006-10-04 18:31:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-10-04 18:04:15 · answer #6 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is. If Family Services knew, she'd be having some issues.
2006-10-04 18:05:21 · answer #7 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very illegal.
2006-10-04 18:10:04 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Smarty Pants 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is illegal.
2006-10-04 18:06:17 · answer #9 · answered by Randomness 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is illegal.
2006-10-04 18:05:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋