What's next? In some states I can't even smoke in my own car if my children are with me. Where are my rights

Question

Seriously, I just herd on the Today show that in AK & LA you can't smoke in your car if you have kids. In TX if you have foster kids you have to quit smokeing in your home by the first of the year. In PA (Allegheny county) we will not be able to smoke in our "smokers lounge or within 15 feet of any door soon. If second hand smoke is so bad then why arn't multi-millions of people suffering from lung cancer that don't smoke? I respect non-smokers...but why do they have the right to control my life and actions? Serious answers PLEASE

I'm not disputing the effects...I am asking about my civil rights...If I am smoking in my car, my home why does anyone have the right to come in and tell me how to LIVE?

When I refer to respecting Non-smokers I do not smoke in their homes, I will eat in the non-smoking section if we go out to dinner, I will not smoke in their cars nor do I dump or throw my cigarette butts on the street...and I don't smoke in parks or around other people's children when they visit my home.

Answer 1

Did it ever occur to you that your children have rights too - including a right to a healthy life?

Answer 2

Well, here in where I live, you can't smoke anywhere, restaurants, bars etc. I was a smoker for over 10 years. I quit when I starting having children. Don't be naive! Smoking is disgusting, it makes you stink, and it will kill you eventually. I understand about the addiction, and I know the social aspect of it. As for smoking with kids in the car, are you serious? And, I AM being serious. Why would anyone want to subject their kids to that? Would you light up a smoke and pass it to them? And yes, it is the same thing. Second-hand smoke is very harmful and the cases of lung cancer due to exposure of it is on the rise. The connection has only been made in the last 10 years or so.

No one is trying to control your life. I respect people's right to choose to smoke. just like those of us who choose not to. But like I said, don't be naive...

Answer 3

Your rights are intact. You do not have the "right" to harm others, not your kids, not your dog, not your parents, not the stranger on the street. In case you have not heard, second-hand smoke causes cancer. I cannot understand why you don't get the point, but that is exactly why those laws are being enacted. Woohoo to Texas, it is about time people gave a crap about foster children. There is no smoking inside my workplace, period. Did you ever consider fighting fo a WORTHY cause? Wake up!!

Your civil rights, have you checked to see exactly what they are? You are not specifically entitled to use "any substance you want", or "do whatever you want", we have laws and ordinances to make our country a better place for ALL of us together, not each of us individually, sorry. This is America, if it is too constrictive, and you do not get to live how you want, may I suggest..Bolivia? Perhaps Syria? You could really see what a lack of civil rights are, and maybe you would appreciate all of the blessings that have been thrown at your feet, just for you to put out a cigarette there.

Answer 4

I respect non-smokers...? Doesn't appear so from your question (unless you consider your children to be smokers?).

Traditionally 'rights' are organised in a hierarchy.

This means that the 'rights' of those who cannot stand up for themselves are generally given priority over the 'rights' of those who can.

In other words, the law considers your childrens' 'rights' to a healthy environment more important than your 'right' to smoke a cigarette. I'm just disappointed that you don't appear to feel the same way.

Answer 5

don't be fooled via the smoking bans the government has them in place for one reason they're purely in place so as that they could't be sued & to get some money from the regularly occurring public who injury the regulation via smoking the place they shouldn't in the event that they have been severe they might close the factorys down vehicles KILL lots of persons they dont do plenty approximately them do they 4000 odd people on my own in united statesa. die each and every 3 hundred and sixty 5 days in street injuries & for our small united states in Australia we lose lots of persons to then there is the pollution the vehicles reason & lower back what's completed approximately that no longer something!!! & no the government is attending to important brother & taking our freedom away

Answer 6

I am with you totally on this! How can they tell you if you can smoke in your car. You pay for it and the insurance! That is total invasion of your rights. Besides that, when I smoke in my car and have my kids, I have the window down. They don't like the smell and I am not that mean. And I do that summer, winter, fall, or spring, rain or shine. Next it will be in our own houses! And I do not believe that smoking causes cancer. I mean, if that were the case, then why do all these little children who never smoked or was around it, get cancer! It's a gene that we all carry that remains dormant, and then it comes to life and makes you sick. And why then do people who don't smoke and are not around it get it? I have a friend who's parents were strict catholics. Never smoked a day in their life, nor would not allow it in their car or house. They died 30 days apart....one from cancer and the other from emphezema. Wierd, huh? And if it so bad, why then, does our government accept tax money from them? Kinda condenscending, isn't it? But they don't stop to think what they do that makes our air so bad. Like drive a car! The exaust is so much worse on us than our smoke. And they all drive! And all this factory stuff getting piped out into the air! But they like to buy whatever it is that factory makes. So they don't say anything. It is much easier to pick on a select few than to go after everybody. Yep, pretty soon, ALL of us, including non smokers are going to have all of our rights taken away, because they were able to get away with this!

Answer 7

Where r ure kids rights? they don't deserve to be passive smokers whether they're foster care or biological. In my country and I also think in Ireland/France they're gonna give smokers two years clean up and then impose bans on public space. But seriously if ure driving with the shutters up and ure smoking with kids in the back , can't be a great health expert and therefore u cant be a great mum, letalone citizen of a great country.

Answer 8

i'm an ex-smoker, and while i did not vote for the legislation that made that law possible i understand the reasoning behind it.

i have asthma, so does my grandson. i can walk by where someone has recently been smoking and feel my throat close up. it causes my grandson to have an attack. have you ever seen a child have an asthma attack?

your right. you do have the right to smoke just as my grandson and i have a right to be able to breathe.

Answer 9

Non-smokers have no right to tell you not to smoke, but what would give you the right to ruin my lungs? I'm a non-smoker, I don't like to get smoke in my face and lungs. Smoke somewhere so I don't get it in my lungs, ruin your body, not mine (and your children's). Every ten cigarettes you smoke, your child smokes one along, think about that.

And by the way; non-smokers also get lung cancer.

Answer 10

Whatever we do, we should think about children, be there protector n never let our actions harm them. N as a parent u r supposed to think about ur kids first b4 u even think of ur self

Answer 11

WOMAN ARE U CRAZY! SOKING IN FRONT OF UR OWN CHILDREN, U SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF URSELF, THERE IS A RULE IN STATES AND IT SAYS "SMOKING IS AGAINST THE LAW, SMOKING HAS A SUBSTANCE THE CAN KILL CHILDREN EASILY, AND CAN CAUSE CANCER" look, what im saying is that u can kill others if u smoke, and if u dont belive it from me i was ultra sad when one part of my family died from smoking