Who, What, Why: Is smoking in cars dangerous?

[Sailor Steve]

I'm firmly against any law that tries to make people safe from themselves. A law to protect kids from stupid parents? Maybe it is a good idea.

[Howard313]

I get to hear about a recent development that actually sounds intelligent for a change?

Hey I'm all for this ban, my dad used to smoke with me in the car all the time when I was a kid, never seemed to give it any thought either.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

+1

When I was very young I had bronchitis, at the doctor's my parents offered to quit smoking - and the doctor said that would not help. Different times then though, today we know a lot better but still choose the wrong option.

Well, when I was a kid it was common to see adults smoke any and everywhere. You went to the grocery store many women would be smoking with babies in the cart, parents smoked at the movies, out to eat, etc...We grew up with cigarette smoke, but that was non regulated capitalism at it's best.

My dad can remember the large insecticide trucks with huge sprayers coming down the road, said it looked like a large sprinkler system and kids would run behind playing in the bug water, course they were told it was safe, course now government regulation doesn't allow such, why we need less regulation, more people would die.

[Gerald]

Well ... I do not use nicotine, so I do not see the "yellow nicotine stained cars"

[Anthony W.]

As others have said... I support the law, but I'm dismayed that people don't have the common sense just not to smoke around kids.

I watched a woman chain smoking at a gas station with her kid in the car.

[Falkirion]

Its a good law to have. As with others on the board I'm a smoker who has quit. I dont have kids but I never smoked behind the wheel because the nicotine messed with my brain. I didn't like the feeling of being behind the wheel and having my perception a little bit messed up.

I'm a Smoker but I consider myself a responsible Smoker.
I do not smoke around non-smokers unless I move well away from them.
I do not smoke in my own vehicles if a non-smoker is in it.
I do not ever throw down the butts.
I don't even smoke in my own home if a non-smoker visits.
I would never consider smokeing in a non-smokers home/vehicle!

I find it sad that others just don't get it and there is a need to force them to wake the freak up!

[Blacklight]

I agree with that proposed law and fully support it. Smoking in a car with a kid in it is like sticking the kid in a closed garage with the car running. The health hazzards of second hand smoke have been proven time and time again, not to mention the horrible smell.
I would even go far enough to say that smokers should be banned from smoking in apartment buildings as well. While I don't care what smokers do in their own homes, when their smoke comes from their home and completely fumigates MY home, there's a problem. If a neighbor has a water leak and it comes into my apartment, I expect it to be fixed so the water doesn't come into my apartment and ruin things. When my neighbors (who smoke like chimneys) puff away, the smell is getting into my apartment and my stuff. Moving out is NOT an option because we're dirt poor. Apartments are communal living spaces. Just the same as smoking is banned from resturaunts, office buildings, etc (also communal), it should be banned from apartment buildings as well.
Let the deluge of "You can't tell me what to do or not do in my home !!" begin.

If the neighbors smoke is getting into your dwelling?
You live in a piece 'o crap building!
Which does not surprise me with today's accepted building standards.

[Blacklight]

If the neighbors smoke is getting into your dwelling?
You live in a piece 'o crap building!
Which does not surprise me with today's accepted building standards.

This has been the case with EVERY apartment I've ever owned for decades. Unless the neighbor's apartment is sealed up completely airtight like a spacecraft, the smoke is going to find a vent, crevice, or some way of migrating into the surrounding apartments.

I feel sorry for people who have to live around here with kids. No telling what's happening to THEIR lungs.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by privateer

I find it sad that others just don't get it and there is a need to force them to wake the freak up!

But that's just it though, we responsible people, and i stress the word responsible, do get it.
Unfortunately the ignoramouses and morons who aren't responsible have to be made an example of.
This 'disciplining' via state, county, federal, national, wherever you live, law enforcement is unfortunately the result of that.
I'm just glad that in this case, i don't have to suffer, for once, because of someone elses irresponsible behaviour towards something that should be so dam simple and easy to do in the first place!

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

This has been the case with EVERY apartment I've ever owned for decades. Unless the neighbor's apartment is sealed up completely airtight like a spacecraft, the smoke is going to find a vent, crevice, or some way of migrating into the surrounding apartments.

I feel sorry for people who have to live around here with kids. No telling what's happening to THEIR lungs.

The problem with most apts is the top floor, the attic spaces are connected except for some 2x4's. They caught one man here that cut through and was visiting many of his neighbors, put cams over girls beds, taking goods, etc..Course the cam finally got him, someone filmed him coming through the return.

[Buddahaid]

I don't smoke and it bothers me just to smell it anywhere now. I own my detached home but have smoking neighbors and hate it when I can't open my windows to cool the house because of the odor that wafts in. No it's not really a health problem but a quality of life problem. Someone even throws the damned butts over the fence and I've never said a thing about it to cause any sort of retribution. I am now dreaming up ways of creating my own smelly revenge. Face it people it stinks the world up. Even getting in a car or elevator with a smoker stinks worse with all the aromatic ash tray perfume that follows them. It's a really stupid habit among many other stupid habits, but one cannot avoid it's reach by moving a few feet away even.

I know that I carry the smell of smoke on me.
I don't fret about that because of what I call 'GrandMa smell'.
Those Women that seem to use Gallons of oder washing that gags me worse then Pepper Spray!
Do we need a Law for that also?

[Blacklight]

Grandma odor doesn't cause lung cancer, or at least it didn't the last time I heard. Maybe someone should do a study.