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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
We currently allow parents to deny their children the right to life saving blood transfusions and vaccinations. Maybe the smoking should be lumped together with everything that parents do to harm their children and make them criminally responsible.
Alternatively, I wonder if a child could sue their parents for exposing them to cigarette smoke, denying vaccinations or blood transfusions or any number of other things.
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Wait, who said anything about parents? This isn't about parent's, this is about people who are over age, fraternizing with people who are underage.
Everyone's got this idea in their head that the law is only targeting some white-trash mom or dad chain smoking in a vehicle with a gaggle of kids in the back seat choking on the blue smoke that is billowing out of the back seat. Yeah, that would be an unfortunate situation. But that is not what this legislation says. This says merely that a driver caught in a vehicle with under agers can and will be fined $1000 for this act.