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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
It's hard to take any argument made after this statement as credible. Smoking in a car with a kid is not the same as breathing, so I'm not sure why you would even say this. Is smoking bad for the health of a kid who has a choice? Yes. Is health important? Yes, so it seems like a reasonable law to me, and comparing it to breathing just doesn't make any sense.
As well I look at this as protection of the people who do not have the personal choice about protecting their health.
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Please tell me where i claimed it was the same thing as smoking in a car with children? What everyone who is advocating this is doing is basically saying i can't make choices for myself so please tell me what to do. If you go this far, anything can become illegal if it is deemed harmful or even a nuesance.
I know several smokers, some of which have children, none of them would ever smoke around there children - especially in a vehicle or confined space. Sure there will be people who do it, they are idiots but they are few and far between. Making this a bylaw wont stop those people anyway.
There is a very long list of things to make illegal for people around children if this goes through - Drinking infront of your child, it sets a bad example - feeding your child any sort of fast food, the child can't choose between good and bad food - playing xbox or computer games, if they stare at the screens too long there eyesight might depleat - not making your kids excercise, they develop unhealthy bodies and don't know the difference.
This is definitely way overboard but you must see some sort of connection here. All that stuff is harmful to your child and they can't choose because they don't know better. Yeah smoking is something that shouldn't happen around a child but lets look at everything that might hurt a child if we are going to go down that path. Lets have cops fine everyone who does anything deemed remotely harmful to a child and see where we end up as a society.
I just have a very strong opinon against making things like this law, there is a fine line between too much authority in a democratic society and this is boardering on that. I'm not a smoker and never will smoke - but i respect a persons right to live they way they see fit, even if their choices aren't good ones all the time.