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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-05 12:18 PM
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39. same here. I'm an ex-smoker of almost 6 years but when I smoked, I
Edited on Thu Nov-03-05 12:19 PM by helderheid
smoked outside and wouldn't consider smoking around a child. I quit the day I found out I was pregnant with my first child. My husband still smokes ( :( ) but only outside and never in the car with our kids.
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  -Should smoking in cars carrying minor children be outlawed? welshTerrier2  Nov-03-05 09:28 AM   #0 
  - Education not laws! n/t  Little Star   Nov-03-05 09:30 AM   #1 
  - You want to ban something?  givemebackmycountry   Nov-03-05 09:32 AM   #2 
  - you forgot  pansypoo53219   Nov-03-05 10:08 AM   #22 
  - I work outside sales  RGBolen   Nov-03-05 12:33 PM   #44 
  - as a smoker, I would not have any problem with that.  mmonk   Nov-03-05 09:33 AM   #3 
  - Your car is your own property.  tx_dem41   Nov-03-05 09:43 AM   #10 
     - I believe a car to be a small enclosed area.  mmonk   Nov-03-05 12:11 PM   #35 
     - Yea, let's throw out seat belt laws too while we're at it.  helderheid   Nov-03-05 12:16 PM   #38 
        - That wasn't my logic...I was showing  tx_dem41   Nov-03-05 12:21 PM   #40 
           - My position was based on my feeling that kids come first  mmonk   Nov-03-05 12:36 PM   #45 
           - Thanks...I didn't mean to be attacking your position in my response  tx_dem41   Nov-03-05 12:37 PM   #47 
           - I think there should be laws in place for those providing America with  helderheid   Nov-03-05 02:56 PM   #48 
  - oh yeah Do you see a law  Little Star   Nov-03-05 09:33 AM   #4 
  - As an ex-smoker that really hates smoke, I can't say there should be  ET Awful   Nov-03-05 09:34 AM   #5 
  - Look t it this way, smoking pot around kids would be considered child abus  Walt Starr   Nov-03-05 09:35 AM   #6 
  - Should the government regulate what diet you provide for your children?  tx_dem41   Nov-03-05 09:36 AM   #7 
  - Even when I smoked  sepia_steel   Nov-03-05 09:36 AM   #8 
  - same here. I'm an ex-smoker of almost 6 years but when I smoked, I  helderheid   Nov-03-05 12:18 PM   #39 
  - As a child of two smokers who chainsmoked Pall Mall's  Horse with no Name   Nov-03-05 09:41 AM   #9 
  - No law. Just common sense  votesomemore   Nov-03-05 09:45 AM   #11 
  - not only outlawed, but if a parent smokes anywhere in site of child  seabeyond   Nov-03-05 09:46 AM   #12 
  - I hope you're joking  Seeker30   Nov-03-05 10:37 AM   #25 
  - We should ban pollution first  400Years   Nov-03-05 11:38 AM   #29 
  - Let's get the goddamed DRUNK DRIVERS off the roads, first.  elehhhhna   Nov-03-05 09:48 AM   #13 
  - if you are that pissed about the drunk drivers go after those with cell  seabeyond   Nov-03-05 09:49 AM   #14 
     - WHO ARE THOSE WOMEN TALKIN TO?  elehhhhna   Nov-03-05 11:55 AM   #33 
        - clearing throat..... you sexist...... bah hahahaah  seabeyond   Nov-03-05 12:07 PM   #34 
  - Only if we also outlaw keeping children in cars that are in traffic.  porphyrian   Nov-03-05 09:55 AM   #15 
  - just make having children illegal,  seabeyond   Nov-03-05 09:58 AM   #16 
     - That's why so many people go along with creating more bans.  porphyrian   Nov-03-05 10:11 AM   #23 
  - I'm with Bill Maher on this.  Touchdown   Nov-03-05 09:59 AM   #17 
  - As a smoker it drives me nuts seeing people smoking around kids  thecorrection   Nov-03-05 09:59 AM   #18 
  - and hide. like a criminal. ah what are you teaching your children  seabeyond   Nov-03-05 10:03 AM   #19 
     - Nope not hiding, just being polite. I hate being a smoker  thecorrection   Nov-03-05 10:05 AM   #20 
     - well then stop smoking  400Years   Nov-03-05 11:39 AM   #30 
     - Sounds like consideration, not "hiding".  mondo joe   Nov-03-05 12:29 PM   #43 
  - for 'darwinism' to work  pansypoo53219   Nov-03-05 10:06 AM   #21 
  - so now we are all the way down to saying a smoker is a useless  seabeyond   Nov-03-05 10:22 AM   #24 
  - Yes, and we should wrap all children in bubble wrap as well...  obreaslan   Nov-03-05 11:28 AM   #26 
  - My dad smokes and my lungs are pink as a blushing virgin.  readmoreoften   Nov-03-05 11:33 AM   #27 
  - I'm so glad I don't have kids...  zanne   Nov-03-05 11:37 AM   #28 
  - Oh, for Christ's sake, stop already with all this hysterical nazism.  bbgrunt   Nov-03-05 11:43 AM   #31 
  - People should be EDUCATED to stop doing that with minors  Selatius   Nov-03-05 11:45 AM   #32 
  - both parents smoked, long car trips sucked  Nabia2004   Nov-03-05 12:13 PM   #36 
  - I spent the first 10 years of my life in hospitals due to my dad's smoking  bleedingheart   Nov-03-05 12:15 PM   #37 
  - Skewed wording in the poll.  gulliver   Nov-03-05 12:25 PM   #41 
  - Ban kids in cars. They're a dangerous distraction.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Nov-03-05 12:27 PM   #42 
  - Speaking as the product of two parents who smoked through my childhood...  hopein08   Nov-03-05 12:36 PM   #46 
  - Kids don't have a choice, so why should they be exposed to the harm?  Zhade   Nov-03-05 03:02 PM   #49 
 

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