They are going to charge you with child endangerment. How do you feel about this? I personally like the idea. I am not a smoker, and my children are not allowed around smokers while they smoke.
2007-09-21 05:27:15 · 22 answers · asked by Mel 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
I know we deserve our rights, but how could anyone disagree with this law? It is a person's right to smoke if they choose, but it is not their right to put their children in harms way. I saw a female employee at a gas station once smoking right in front of the store, and she was obviously at least 7-8 months pregnant. I started crying! I just felt so bad for her unborn baby.
2007-09-21 05:47:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
In the state I live in if you are pulled over and smoking in the car with children under 6 then you can get a ticket. I look at it this way. My husband smokes but he does it outside rather than around our kids. People have the right to smoke but others have the right to breath. People just should have more respect for others rights and that works on both sides. They are wanting to pass a tax that will add 8 bucks a carton that is not right as it is singling out a particular group. But yet smokers should think about where they are before lighting up. Smoking is an addiction just like any other drug. I am a non smoker but I still think they should have some rights too.
2007-09-21 06:15:27 · answer #2 · answered by thumpergirl_1979 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That law has been passed in some cities here in Maine, and while I agree that smoking in a car with children is detrimental to the children I do NOT agree that the government has the right to tell me what I can and cannot do in the car that I bought with MY hard earned money!
Besides the fact that most people who are smokers also smoke in their homes. So, the police are going to ticket people smoking in their cars, then the people are going to go home and smoke in their houses with their kids hanging around. So, in effect, the government has not accomplished ANYTHING by doing that!
2007-09-21 07:21:28 · answer #3 · answered by mornnglry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My main concern with this is how would it be enforced? Child endangerment is a serious charge. If it could mean that children would be removed from their parents then I think its a bad idea. Even imposing fines on the parents could effect the children negatively if the family is not financially secure. So what it really comes down to is what does the most harm to the children...smoke vs. family upheaval or financial trouble? I agree with the intentions, though. If you expose your children born or unborn in anyway to cigarette smoke, you are not doing your job as a parent to protect them.
2007-09-21 06:10:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's ridiculous. I for one don't like to be told what to do. As a thinking human being, I think I should be able to decide for myself what I want to do. This goes way beyond smoking. Do people have their heads so far up each others rear ends that they can live their lives for them? Do what you think is best for you and realize that not everyone has had the opportunities that you all have had. I can see if you had a very young child out of a car seat, which I do see on the road ALL the time. Why don't these people get charges with endangerment? I would bet a cop would just let them drive right on by to nab the evil smoker right behind them. Wake the hell up.
2007-09-21 05:55:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I agree that some don't use common sense but why make this law when many smoke in their home while rocking the child to sleep. It's a shame that many know how to have children but not a clue as to how to be a parent~
2016-05-20 01:19:30 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are they going to start doing the same thing for drinking, pregnant women that drink?
While it is a mean well law, what would they do pull over anyone smokng with a carseat in the car. I used to smoke, in my car, not with my daughter in it but sometimes her car seat would still be there, that is pushing the rights just a bit.
Or if pulled over for another reason and they smell cig smoke b/c it lingers for a long time will they be charged. I think that it is pushing it alot.
And there are alot of women that don't show till really late, with my daughter I was 7.5 months. And what if the woman is just fat?
No the law would never work. There would be even more police harrassment than there is now.
2007-09-21 05:55:53 · answer #7 · answered by his wife 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think smoking is a personal choice. There is more than enough information out there to make an informed decision.
HOWEVER, children are NOT making the choice to smoke so someone needs to stand up for them and protect them.
I agree that you are endangering your child by subjecting them to second hand smoke. However, people are doing a lot worse things to children and we can't seem to save or protect them.
The law is a wonderful 'idea' but it won't stop the children from being exposed to smoke.
2007-09-21 06:05:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
well... im a smoker.... i don't smoke around children.... while im pregnant... or even around people i ask if they mind.... but that's my choice to be polite... (i'd like to think) i don't want it to be the law that i have to think about all these things.... smoking is an addiction.... and its hard to stop... but some people with this addiction have morals and values... i just don't think the government should have anything to do with my morals.... so while if this law does pass i wouldn't have a problem with it... because i don't smoke around children... i just think its ridiculous.... first its this law ... but there will be other laws that govern this law.... next there will be police at gas stations set to follow home anyone who bought cigarettes.... so they can watch and see if you break the law.... so make sure you set an extra place mat at your table...."the government is coming over"....
2007-09-21 07:16:33 · answer #9 · answered by chrysteena 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I also like the idea. I can't believe that any parent would want to subject their child to the dangers of second hand smoke when it is so publicly known what the side effects are. There is no good excuse as to why a person has to smoke cigarettes. There are many many many good reasons why a person should NOT smoke cigarettes. So it just seems to make sense.
2007-09-21 06:12:14 · answer #10 · answered by Somebody's Sister 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋