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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Well, been watching this thread for a few days now. After my experience (feel free to search threads) I may not have a leg to stand on, but anyone who smokes with kids in the car is a true piece of s**t. I smoke, but not around my kid. Gov't wants to legislate it, cool. Most of us need to have someone watch out for our own stupidity anyways.
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I still think the government is going about this the wrong way ... just like the rest of their anti-smoking legislation. Legislation against smoking in vehicles is an indirect way of attacking smoking. As you've pointed out, it's really a legislation against stupidity as much as it is against smoking.
If the government wants to stop smoking, make it illegal. If that's really their goal, why not take direct legislative action against smoking itself, rather than indirect legislation that often targets individual rights and lifestyle choices. I'd rather see the government just make tobacco use illegal than establish precedent setting individual rights and lifestyle legislation. Failure to legislate against smoking directly makes me wonder if governments are too addicted to tobacco taxes to have the will to actually make it illegal.
For what it's worth ... I'm a casual cigar smoker, not a non-smoker or an anti-smoker.