Listen to this. A new law in Arkansas effective tomorrow you cannot smoke in your own vehicle with a child 6 or under. Does this sound like it's interfering with America's Freedom to you? And what about the 7 yr old and up? Is that the age they decided to start supposively "not caring about"? I think it's a political game myself, what is your take on it?
208808
I live in Arkansas and I have not heard of this law.  Do you have any links to documentation on it?  I know several towns are banning smoking in restaurants and other public places, but I have not heard of any having to do with smoking in vehicles.
385087
I have never honestly tried it but a lot of my family members have and it is a huge family fight right now because some of them DO smoke around their kids.  I just can't imagine ever putting a child at risk like that or being so selfish.\n\nCongrats on you quitting though. That's very admirable.
622234
way too far! businesses are going to suffer from these foolish laws. I say to people that don't smoke, just stay away from us and don't breath it. We don't blow the crap on them or anyhting.\nOh yeh, what about drinking in public, is that alright to have your child exposed to useless drunks, our governement is a bunch of a**wipes!
396098
I'm not a smoker nor do i like cigarette smoke:\n\nhow close do you live to this person? You make it sound like he/she is walking up to your windows and blowing it in. There is nothing you can do about it. It is still their legal right to smoke in their house or on their property. Unless you are window to window with this person i think you are being a bit ridiculous. That person has every right to live there. I dont think there is a problem to address to your neighbor. You just seem like one of those unbearable neighbors that nothing makes them happy.\n\nSecond hand smoke is just as bad as doing it yourself but once again unless you are window to window or he is blowing it in your windows i think your kids will be just fine. I mean do you expose your kids to other things in life that arent so healthy? Sugar,mcdonalds,tv??????
189432
Nonsmokers have some serious issues with "control" when they start talking about not smoking outside. Just walk around the smoker huddled next to the ash can, it's really not that difficult. If he's not huddled next to the ash can do that silly fake cough thing, that will show him. Sigh.
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I don't really think Big Brother is listening to all our phone calls. Big Brother just doesn't have that much time and help.\n\nNot smoking? Here in FL people pretty much can't smoke indoors anymore, except in bars. That was a law passed by the voters. As a non smoker, even though I did not vote for it, it sure doesn't bother me to sit in a restaurant and not breathe in second hand smoke.\n\nI'm also all for the seat belt law. Aside from it protecting children, it also protects other people in the car from the 200 pound projectiles that morons become in an accident when they don't want to buckle up.\n\nBottom line (IMHO)-\nI don't really think that not wearing a seat belt is a right, as driving is a privilege. And since secondhand smoke has been proven harmful, I don't think people should be forced to be exposed to it.\n\nThe phone calls- that's something else. I do think there should be just cause for listening in on private conversations.
357588
I smoke, and I go out of my way to find a spot to smoke where no children (or anyone else, really) are around or a spot designated for smoking. I understand that second-hand smoke is harmful to children (and others); however, if I am in a designated smoking area and then someone comes around with their children, I am unlikely to move or snuff out my cigarette. Afterall, I was there first, and no one is forcing them to be there. \n\nOn the same token, I don't go to playgrounds to smoke. It's a matter of respect, in my opinion. I'll smoke in an out-of-the-way area out of respect for others, and usually I'll move if I find I am still too close to others. If someone comes into a *designated* smoking area with their children and begin to make a big scene complete with couching and hacking, I most certainly will not move.
250223
Personally, I would love more cigarette taxes.  My mother died of lung cancer when I was 16 years old.  I agree that smoking is a 'right' but not when people's smoking gets into my clean air.  I don't want to inhale all that.
83659
Yes. Very much so. And I'm a smoker. I do not smoke in public, around children, or around pregnant women. It is MY choice alone to die of cancer. Not theirs. I do not defend smokers in ANY way. Smoking is a dangerous habit that I wish I could control and quit. Unfortunately, I can't seem to stop. I've been a smoker for 18 yrs. and I will NEVER tell another human being to deal with MY habit in public because I have the right to smoke. They have more of a right to breath and to live with out being wrongly affected by me. I smoke in the privacy of my own home. I apologize for those smokers who do not get it, that WE are the offenders. Keep it up guys...maybe smoking will be banned.
611129
Honey,it's a sign of the times. Don't try to figure it out.I'm a smoker too,but I have three grown son's and none of them smoke.It's my smoke.So I'm careful to keep it out of other peoples air space.
631224
what the h are you smoking......have a cousin more or less brain dead from this crap...and htere have been multiple studies showing the damage to oens lungs is far greater with Mj then tabacoo...but you keep it up...we need to thin out the gene pool anyway
502549
People have been desensitized for decades with the little warning on the cigarette packs. With the TV commercials getting bolder and bolder, people are getting more and more education. What it comes down to is personal choice. To sit and discuss intelligently with you child(ren) when they are old enough to understand the ramifications of their decisions. Discussing it when they are 5 makes no sense, cuz they ll agree that they wont do it. Parents need to take an intellectual role in this. Only that way will people learn about the hazards of smoking
301744
As I understand the basics of the legal arguments here, its about freedom of choice.....an interesting concept, when the federal government spends millions of dollars every year to treat self-induced cancer.\n\nI feel about this one the same way I feel about helmet laws.  If you want to smoke or not wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle, fine.  But sign a waiver saying you won't take a dime from taxpayers to treat the result of your foolish decisions.
191913
I am on your side.  All these sniveling little fairies can go to hell.  We have a right to smoke.  The worst of the group are these little assholes who used to be smokers and now feel the need to dictate to us where we go, what we do, and how we live.  People like you are what we need to make this country great again.  Thank you for taking the time to educate the morons that have replied negatively.
24687
Had the same problem at our place.  It's also discrimination to tell someone they can't do something that is NOT illegal.  It is against their rights also.\n\nSo we have smoking areas far away from other people.  If you don't like smoke, don't go there.
292882
No, they have no right under the constitution, but that does not matter.  Governments do what they want and there is not much you can do about it unless everyone is willing to fight it together.  That will never happen since there are more non smokers than there are smokers
424352
YES!!! people say that business will boom due to the new law...not true!!! more lies. look at how many jobs were lost in canada at windsor due to their smoking ban. bunch of whiny crybabies always looking for ways to live longer. smokers have paid for many a building, and it was bad enough before when they threw us in a corner or outside to smoke...now we can't even smoke at all! i'm hoping my job (bartending in a dive bar) will hold out untill i'm finished with school....but i doubt it. if people can't even smoke in a dive bar, they'll stay home. all you self rightious people can rest easy and maybe live a couple more years  and find something else to cry about. i've got kids to feed and i 'm watching my job die a slow death on the clean air in the bar.