I'm not a fan of paternalistic laws, adults can make decisions for themselves as long as others have an easy way of avoiding exposure and society doesn't have to pay the cost for their decisions (e.g., health related costs of smoking, smoking contribution to traffic accidents, etc.). Wondering out loud though whether taking children into a smoking section so that the parents can smoke should be a societal concern?
2006-10-15 08:25:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
It doesn't take brains to make a child. I agree with you.
2006-10-15 08:30:29 · answer #1 · answered by carolinatinpan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's impossible to legislate parenthood, unfortunately. Parents who let their kids sit in a smoking section at the restaurant will smoke in the car on the way home, and in their homes in the presence of the children.
What I would personally like to see, as a parent, is smoking and non-smoking sections that are properly divided with a WALL and a DOOR. Declaring one side of the restaurant "smoking" and the other "non-smoking" makes no difference if there's no division between them. The smoke can go wherever it wants.
2006-10-15 08:31:45 · answer #2 · answered by Lanani 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that must be a physically powerful regulation to enforce. although, it would not be exceeded. initially, smoking mothers and dads could have a greater healthful and agencies could harm. Secondly, maximum human beings who smoke do not smoke in the course of the finished meal so their argument could be that one or 2 cigarettes are not going to hust the toddlers. i think that if eating places had a smoking area linked to the bar, the place you're able to desire to be 21 to flow into could be a physically powerful concept. yet nevertheless, the smoking age is eighteen. i don't think of that there is an common answer to this question. possibly if all eating places banned smoking all mutually. that must be super!
2016-11-23 13:13:29 · answer #3 · answered by maza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is one good reason to live in California. There were laws passed years ago for no smoking in restaurants, bars, bowling alleys, work sites, most public indoor places do not allow smoking. Perhaps some other states could learn from our example.
2006-10-15 09:42:58 · answer #4 · answered by Cat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disallowing kids in the smoking section of a restaurant will have little effect unless parents are banned from smoking around their kids altogether...if the kids are exposed to it at home, what they get in a restaurant isn't going to make a significant difference...
2006-10-15 08:33:57 · answer #5 · answered by . 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That may or may not be a good idea. But the question is for me if you start making laws like that where does it end. undoubtedly smoking around children is detrimental to their health. But how do you tell people how they can and cant raise their children. And once you start doing that it seems like a very slippery slope to me. Where is the stopping point?
2006-10-15 08:39:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all kids are not aloud to smoke till their of age wherever they are at, And But i do beleive that they should keep banning this away from kids, but adults are different We have rights to smoke, But kids should wait till they are 21 to smoke in my book
2006-10-15 08:35:51 · answer #7 · answered by trudycaulfield 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No need to in my area....no one can smoke in restaurants anyway.....or any other place for that matter.
2006-10-15 08:31:22 · answer #8 · answered by Jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YEA!!! That's a really good idea, I'm 18 and smoke but im legally an adult, i hate to see kids younger than me do that, it makes me sick. But yea, you would have to show ID to get in but that's a good idea.
2006-10-15 08:34:26 · answer #9 · answered by gamesandshit 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We should pass laws banning children from restaurants, along with all smokers. Then pass laws banning tobacco.
2006-10-15 09:26:29 · answer #10 · answered by bigrob 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋