I guess today is my day to find everything Ann Althouse posts interesting (well, almost everything anyways) and comments on it.
BREITBART.COM - Bangor Makes It Illegal to Smoke in Cars
This link really made me go, “Oh, come on!” - again, I am not a smoker. I hate smoke. My husband smokes, but always in a safe distance from Neel and never in his car with Neel. That aside, I find it really intrusive. Who gives a damn what someone does in his car?
If smoking in the car is hurting someone other than who is in the car, I admit there is a point - see the laws about DUI, etc. - but why should the state care if someone smokes in their own damn car?
It is for the children ™, y’all!
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:angry: How can they try to pass something like that? I feel sorry for smokers, even though I’m not one myself. Here they already have to stand out in the cold and if they can’t smoke in their vechicles they are then classed worse than animals. For animals have the right to stay inside when it is killer freezing temperatures outside, but I guess smokers don’t get that freedom.
Posted by: Kami at February 13, 2007 3:35 PM
Well said, smokers are increasingly being harassed by society-at-large. After all, we americans pride ourselves on being free and on choice being the norm. Why then can’t a smoker smoke in his car, at least when he’s alone?
The lawmakers must be smoking something ;)
Posted by: Hindu Sutra at February 28, 2007 9:39 AM