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Drivers caught smoking in cars carrying children 7-years-old or younger could soon get slapped with a $100 fine in Virginia if they’re pulled over by authorities.
The Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill this week that would let cops fine people who have been stopped. The money collected from the fines would go directly to help fund literacy efforts in the state. If approved, Virginia - home to tobacco giant Phillip Morris – would join several other states in banning second-hand smoke in vehicles.
Bill sponsor Del. Todd Pillion, a Republican pediatric dentist from southwest Virginia, said he pitched the bill after he noticed children coming into his practice stinking of smoke. “And in a very tight, enclosed space in a car, it’s even worse,” Pillion said in an interview with The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
In children, secondhand smoke causes the following:
Ear infections
More frequent and severe asthma attacks
Respiratory symptoms (for example, coughing, sneezing, and shortness of breath)
Respiratory infections (bronchitis and pneumonia)
A greater risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that secondhand smoke causes about 49,000 deaths annually. The data supporting this, however, rely primarily on self-reporting to gauge secondhand smoke exposure, which many researchers consider unreliable.
originally posted by: DAVID64
Yes please! Let's have more laws and more programs that invade and control my life. Any reason is ok, I just want state and local government to be able to fine and harass me for more things.
What I do around my kids is my fuc**ing business and I don't need you bleeding heart "It's for the children" drones to tell me what I can and can't do. If you like government running your lives, move to North Korea, otherwise, stay out of my life.
And no, it's not child abuse like I'm sure some of you will say. You still say it's putting them in danger? How about Mommy doesn'r drive and talk on the phone. How about Daddy doesn't speed and curse at people that make him mad.
Jesus. Stay Out Of My Life and stop being so sure you're so perfect that you can tell others what they're doing is wrong.
I am surprised to see logic being used in the government.
In children, secondhand smoke causes the following:
Ear infections
More frequent and severe asthma attacks
Respiratory symptoms (for example, coughing, sneezing, and shortness of breath)
Respiratory infections (bronchitis and pneumonia)
A greater risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
originally posted by: DAVID64
Yes please! Let's have more laws and more programs that invade and control my life. Any reason is ok, I just want state and local government to be able to fine and harass me for more things.
What I do around my kids is my fuc**ing business and I don't need you bleeding heart "It's for the children" drones to tell me what I can and can't do. If you like government running your lives, move to North Korea, otherwise, stay out of my life.
And no, it's not child abuse like I'm sure some of you will say. You still say it's putting them in danger? How about Mommy doesn'r drive and talk on the phone. How about Daddy doesn't speed and curse at people that make him mad.
Jesus. Stay Out Of My Life and stop being so sure you're so perfect that you can tell others what they're doing is wrong.
originally posted by: DexterRiley
a reply to: DeathSlayer
I agree that parents shouldn't smoke with their kid in the car. I smoked for years, but I tried to not do it when my daughter was in the car with me. Thanks to hypnotherapy I don't smoke cigarettes anymore. In fact hypnotherapy worked too well. Now when I'm exposed to second hand smoke I get violently ill.
But when I was growing up, nobody gave much thought to second hand smoke. I remember going to Hamfests when I was a kid. I distinctly remember opening the door to the venue and having a giant cloud of smoke meet me at the door. Cheech and Chong, except it was cigarette smoke.
I chuckled when I read this:
In children, secondhand smoke causes the following:
Ear infections
More frequent and severe asthma attacks
Respiratory symptoms (for example, coughing, sneezing, and shortness of breath)
Respiratory infections (bronchitis and pneumonia)
A greater risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Now I'm not saying that all of these different maladies didn't affect children when I was a kid. But I've heard more about these illnesses since all of the anti-smoking crap started a few years ago. I may have known 1 kid then entire time I was in public school that suffered from any of those.
I think the researchers should look at things such as the sterile, synthetic, chemically-infused, world in which we currently live for answers about how these diseases have become so much more prevalent than they were years ago. Second hand smoke is no doubt exacerbating the issue. However, there is definitely more to it than being exposed to cigarette smoke.
But the thing that ticks me off the most about this is that I don't want to live in a NANNY STATE! Stop telling me how to live my life. The other thing I find annoying is the fact that a "limited government" Republican is the one who sponsored the Bill.
-dex