A New Jersey lawmaker is going to introduce legislation next week making it illegal to smoke inside a car with children under the age of 16 present. The new laws will make it a $500 fine and up to 30 days in jail for a first offense, $1000 and up to 6 months in jail for subsequent offenses. Have "feel good laws" and invasions of privacy gone too far? Or do you think this is a good idea?
2007-01-19 06:49:17 · 24 answers · asked by Jersey Giant 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Why don't they worry more about people who drink and drive and kill innocent children!! It's my car therefore my choice!!
2007-01-25 23:51:31 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Stranger In Maine™♥ (Thriller) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As what was said before me, They can't even keep their own zippers up and they seem to get into enough problems themselves. How can they judge? Don't you think they have enough to do with the crime rate out here? Now they are going to make criminals out of people who smoke in their car. First they say no smoking here and there now if you have children in the car. What's next? No one here has said smoking is a great thing we just want freedom of choice!
2007-01-27 14:25:47 · answer #2 · answered by kellyfl59 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aw, this does my head in. As a smoker myself, I would like to believe that 'WHEN' I get a car that I can cruise and smoke at the same time. Does this mean that on motorways they'll have a 'smoking stop' for those on a long journey to stop and have a cigarette. There are far more dangers in this world than smoking. Don't get me wrong, I do attempt to smoke away from others, as passive smoking has been proved to be a huge risk towards Cancer, but how far would the Government go in order to 'fix the world'? Are they now going to tell us what, when and where we do our grocery shopping? Are they going to tell us how to dress in public?? When will they stop?
2007-01-26 09:27:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's surely an invasion of privacy. They are invading our freedoms and rights. I smoke, but I personally have chosen not to smoke in my car because the nicotine ruins the interior and leaves a nasty, hard-to-get-off film on the windows, not to mention the smoky smell. I just recently got a newer car and so, by my own choice, I chose not to smoke in it, but I think this new law is a total invasion on one's personal choices and freedoms. Of course, that's another example of what ridiculous laws our brainy governor Corzine (liberal, of course) has come up with instead of making more strict laws against sex offenders, child molestors, drinking and driving offenders, etc. Instead, he invades people's privacy and freedom of choice. Even if I did smoke in my car (I don't have any children), I would say to the governor that, if he pays my car off, pays for the gas and insurance and repairs, THEN he can tell me I can't smoke in it. That's a democrat for 'ya - commies!
2007-01-19 14:58:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I protect my child from my smoking. I don’t need the government to hang jail time over my head in order to do so.
If we have to protect our children from anything, it is government interference. If this measure passes what freedoms will be taken away next? If I am such a bad parent because I smoke, what’s going to stop the government from taking my kid away next? Or worse, what’s going to stop Raymond Lesniak from making all female smokers undergo sterilization?
I urge all NJ residents, smokers and non-smokers, to contact your legislators and tell them to stop wasting time and money on regulating our lives and instead concentrate on themselves. Campaign reform and ethics go by the wayside. The funny thing is our state legislators are quick to wag their finger at us and our lifestyles, what about them? Everyone in the other 49 states knows when it comes to government corruption NJ ranks number 1. Focus your attention, Senator Lesniak, on cleaning that up, not what I do in the privacy of my own car with my own child.
The Democrats screamed when the Republican federal government talked about wire-tapping phones. It is an invasion of privacy, was their call. However, when the government wants to interfere with the way we raise our children and monitor us while in our own private property, the Democrats stand up and cheer! It’s sickening to think that his measure would even be considered.
The New Jersey Constitution begins, “All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain natural and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.”
Senator Raymond Lesniak needs to understand that that constitutional right includes smokers, even smokers with children.
2007-01-19 15:02:20 · answer #5 · answered by noodles 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No it's not a good idea that's your car you should have the right to do what you want in whatever you own. I smoke and i have children i myself don't smoke in the car or my house because of them but that's my decision. They shouldn't have the right to make that decision. The problem is all the people that smoke want to make it a pain in are a.s.s . to be able to smoke where we want when we want. So much for the so called freedom.
2007-01-26 10:12:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If there are children in the car you shouldn't smoke at all. But I do agree that there are some laws regarding invasions of privacy that have gone a little overboard.
2007-01-19 18:43:29 · answer #7 · answered by smeezleme 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It has gone way too far....that is an invasion of privacy!!
Even tho any one with any intelligence at all would not smoke in a car with children...I do agree on that point !
But what is next? You can't smoke in your own home if you have children????
I am a smoker and I do not smoke in my home..my husband and I go outside to smoke and we do smoke in our vehicle,but we do not have small children either.
2007-01-19 15:05:55 · answer #8 · answered by Bren 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Just like seat belt regulations for minors this is to protect the minor child's best interest. I would never allow someone to smoke in a car with my child inside. When a child is unable to speak up for his or herself then it's the states right to tell the parent what they can and cannot do.
I am not against smoking, and I don't believe that the state should regulate smoking in places such as bars and restaurants and the regulation of smoking in cars containing children may go to far, but if your stupid enough to smoke in a closed in space with your child present then you may deserve jail time...lol.
Second hand smoke is a danger and to introduce it into a child's lungs is obviously a bad idea. Stupid parents need stupid laws.
2007-01-19 14:56:46 · answer #9 · answered by paganmom 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
glad i dont live in new jersey then! i'd probably be stopped a lot because i drive a van with car seats in it that im sure people can see. the thing is, i never smoke when the kids are in the van just when im out and about without them.
2007-01-21 12:18:51 · answer #10 · answered by Philly G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The government has entirely to much time on their hands,they need to take care of the more dangerous things such as;pedophiles, drugs, shootings, serial killers,government spending, health care,etc.
I agree that you should not smoke around children but they are already trying to tell us what to eat,how to live and where to go.
They need to start in their own back yards, congressman having sex with pages,affairs,telling secrets,lies,fraud,deception.
It is not the common people who need someone to tell them how to live it is the government.
2007-01-21 12:30:58 · answer #11 · answered by kalbri3 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋