Children now being able to sue parents for smoking while child is in Vehicle...?

Question

As we all become aware that smoking has been re framed from just about all surrounding now- But have you heard?
They now are going to vote on children's rights which is the right to charge a parent for smoking while in a vehicle.
What is ones view on this?
And when will it ever end?

I'm guess I should have added This is in Canada, so not aware of it else where if law anywhere other than Canada.

I guess I should have added This is in Canada, so not aware of it else where if law anywhere other than Canada.

Hey! People please don't get mad at me! I'm only referring to what I have read and heard on the radio today!
Weather I believe in it or not, I simply asked for people's views NOT MINE!
Because I'm a NU smoker.
Respect me as I would you.
Thank you

Answer 1

Wow. I bet you never thought you'd get this big of a reaction to a simple question. gee.
I don't know if children should be able to sue their parents for smoking in the car. I think though that if they kept getting sick like with bronchitis or something, then maybe they should be able to do something. But just to do it? Well. While it's wrong for parents to smoke and keep them enclosed in it, what will they do to keep them free of the smoke at home? My son and his wife smoke and everytime I leave that house my clothes stink. I have to air my coat out outside for hours and spray it with febreeze. The kids come over to stay and all their clothes that are in the suitcase stink like smoke. What to do then? It will never stop. This is abuse in a way cause the kids have no way to get out of it. They don't wanna leave their parents and the parents won't wise up. Ya can't win. the courts are filled up enough now with stupid stuff. I think unless there are doc bills to support these matters then it shouldn't be dealt with.

Answer 2

Yes they should face criminal prosecution if they are doing that while they are pregnant. Also, I think that mothers and fathers who smoke should stop or make every effort possible to keep their kids from having to breathe in the second hand smoke. They could only smoke outside of the house or car and dont sit where their second hand smoke is blowing at their children(or anyone else for that matter). Basically, all parents should love their children more than they love their addictions.

Answer 3

Sandra, I don't know where you get this but this has nothing to do with children's rights.

In actuality, the only rights children have are negative ones. In other words YOU have to fail in a duty of care! They have no other legal rights except perhaps to be represented in a JD case, but the do not get any of the other right afforded in the Constitution, including the right of a grand Jury!

Yours does not sound like a "Children's Rights" issue, but more of a society dictating (ALL ADULTS) whether you can or cannot smoke in a vehicle with a child on board!

The inside of a vehicle has usually been upheld as private property, however the right to drive a vehicle on the roadways has not been seen as a right but as a privilege, which I totally disagree!

They are going after smoking and your behaviour, not the rights of a child, just as many states are starting to put limits on cell phones, and Buckling you child in (Is that a child right or a parents responsibility?)

Answer 4

As a parent can I say no child of mine would DARE to take advantage of such a stupid ruling.
If they did hen I would regard it as a very good reason for offing the ungratefull little git(s).
As you say when will it ever end.
It is my contention that such PC interference in peoples lives only fosters worse bigotry and ignorance and positively encourages dysfunctionality in anyone affected be they parent or child. Further it is (providing there is no gross violation of others rights) the proper business only of those directly concerned in the alleged violation. Eduction is the way to end this kind of behaviour and there should be no enforcement or coercion on individuals.

Answer 5

Sorry...but I'm on the side of the children who are left helpless inside a vehicle while the parent smokes. Smoking is a CHOICE. Breathing isn't. Just because they're the kid's parents doesn't give them a right to put them in that kind of harms way. Unfortunately, since these people care more about their own desire to smoke than they do their children's well-being, SOMEONE has to speak up for the kids.

**And as to when it will end? Hopefully not until smokers are forced to keep their damn smoke to themselves.

Answer 6

This makes me so mad. I really can't stand other people who think this is OK.

Janet, how about parents who take their kids to McDonalds? That can't be good either. Or how about parents who like to make model airplanes? Those fumes from the glue are hazardous.
Don't think people who have a pit bull should have children?

Answer 7

Smoking in the car with children present is the same as any other kind of child endangerment and should be treated the same way. If I drive while under the influence of alcohol with my child in the car, whether my child is hurt or not, I could be charged with child endangerment. So what's the difference?

Answer 8

When will it end? when Parents stop killing their kids. In case you hadn't noticed, Smoking can kill people, and is accually more harmful to somebody else then to the smoker because the smoker has a filter, measly though it is.

This is a step in the right direction if you ask me. I'll say it again: Scientific study has proven that smoking is very, very bad for you and the people around you.

Answer 9

And they worry about the Patroit act?..

Ok I buy it, but if my son can sue me, I am going to sue him back for all the times, I let him drive me to the store so he could practice driving, because he almost killed me a few times, and I am going to counter sue, for the time he almost burned us all up by playing with matches.. And that guy down the street who just bought a big old chevy truck is getting it to, because he knows how badly it pollutes my air when he drives by my house..


See where it leads?..

It all will end, in the end..

Answer 10

Well well then it is the right of the parent to make the kid ride outside the car so that they do not have to breath the air inside as the parents smoke.
Or the kid can just walk.