Comments on: Should Smoking Around Kids Be Illegal?

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:32:18 +0000

I am a smoker with two young children. More of a social smoker, actually. I would never, EVER smoke in an enclosed space, such as my home or car with my children present. This is SO wrong. It is unfair for innocent children to be exposed to smoke. My parents smoked in our house when I was a child, and it was horrible. Smoke stinks, and is uncomfortable even for me now to have to inhale secondhand smoke when I choose not to. It is not just a part of life. If you are an adult and you wish to put yourself in the vicinity of smoke, then so be it. But a child can’t just walk away like we can. If you can’t be mature enough to respect children’s rights, you shouldn’t be allowed to smoke in the first place. Only white trash idiots smoke with their children around!!

By: Des

Des — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:18:39 +0000

Smoking around children should be demolished it is easy to stop smoking once you put your mind to it and get help.

By: JamieLynn

JamieLynn — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:44:32 +0000

Alright I am married to a smoker but he respects those who don’t & that is rare of a smoker most don’t care. I have 2 kids & thier father and his wife smoke around the kids & don’t care that one of them is asthmatic. I think smokers need to be forced to respect at least thier children’s rights to live healthy. I want to support & promote the causse of Stop the Smoking Around Children! Kids can’t just get away from it when in the car or in thier own homes.

By: Silver

Silver — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:12:08 +0000

I think it is all a bunch of CRAP! I don’t smoke and i could care a less what other people do in there life’s. This is a FREE Country so why don’t we continue to let it be FREE, and quit complaining about the small stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is the people that worry about this kind of thing, that are going to make ALL OF US suffer. So if you want to smoke or if you don’t WHATEVER! Get over it……. How about we worry about the things that matter!

By: richard

richard — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:51:09 +0000

screw you

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:41:45 +0000

To Linda – you are very fortunate that no one around you has died from lung cancer.
I’ve lost my father, uncle, aunt, best friend’s father, and uncle-in-law all to LUNG cancer. All were life-long smokers (except my aunt) with the youngest death (my uncle at 48) and the oldest my aunt (72). (My aunt by-the-way, did not smoke but lived with a smoker for 35 years and somehow “mysteriously” developed lung cancer. Her husband died twelve years prior to her death of lung cancer as well.)
And yes, I’ve had asmtha most of my life, so Linda, either you are blissfully ignorant or painfully stupid. Either way, I do agree with you on one point – I don’t believe in our government, I believe in the reality that 1/4 of the adults in my family have died of lung cancer.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:23:27 +0000

Of course smoking around minors should be illegal, the only problem is that our government is run by special interest groups (smokers) and lobbyist for the tabacco companies.
But thankfully the laws are slowly catching up – in California you cannot smoke with a minor in the car.
This is similar to the current case where the mother and son fled because the parents did not believe that chemo will cure their son. The courts found the mother in contempt and ruled that the parents’ religious beliefs were compromising their son’s health. Isn’t smoking around minors compromising their health?

By: phyllis

phyllis — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:48:01 +0000

This is like Welfare twenty(20)years ago telling me I can’t have a phone or a car. Or, government telling me that I can’t believe in God. All these things are called rights. My rights have already been restricted enough that my VA health care providers are pushing just enough pills to keep me going. I am disabled because of government’s involvement in my health care. I will lose legs before the bloodclot is removed. I grew up believing in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I have a half life only.

By: Vic

Vic — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:39:03 +0000

Smoking around ANYONE that is not a smoker should be illegal. Not just children it impairs the breathing of all people. Especially those with C.O.P.D

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:38:37 +0000

I do not think it should be illegal. That is a bogus idea that will never work. If a parent steps away from the child’s vacinity to have a puff outside and the child has a question, like kids ALWAYS do, it would be stupid to arrest or fine the parent for smoking just because their kid may have came outside to ask them that question.

PLUS how on earth would there be enforcement of such a law? There wouldn’t be.

The idea of having homes checked daily/periodically is plain absurd and I doubt that a neighbor calling 911 to tell police that she saw her neighbor smoking in the same room as her kid would be an incident put on top priority for law enforcment.