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Now they want to ban smoking in cars????
I knew it! Give them an inch and they will take a mile. Next they will ban smoking in homes. You heard it here first! This is your own personal space and this sets a VERY dangerous precident if it goes through.
| quote: | They’ve banned smoking in your office. They’ve banned smoking in bars and restaurants. They’ve banned smoking on public transit. And now they want to ban smoking in your car.
The Ontario Medical Association is suggesting the dangers of second hand smoke affecting children is so serious, legislation should be passed to prevent adults from puffing in the closed confines of a vehicle.
“In the car, children experience 20 to 25 times the smoking exposure they would have in a smoky bar, and opening the window a crack doesn't work at all,” cautions O.M.A. chief Dr. Ted Boadway. “You have to have gale force winds in the car actually to protect the child. So ... there should be no smoking when transporting children, and smokers should use nicotine replacement therapy for long trips to manage their addictive symptoms.”
An O.M.A. reports equates the amount of second hand smoke in a car or a home as equivalent to that of a bar. And Boadway say that could cause serious health effects in youngsters, including respiratory ailments and a decrease in learning abilities.
But what should smokers who are addicted to nicotine do about long trips? Boadway suggests frequent breaks out of their vehicle, and the use of medical aids.
“You can use nicotine replacement therapy like the gum to tide you over during that time and control those addictive problems and then smoke again after,” he advises. “You don't have to quit smoking to go use it.”
The proposal is already controversial because it infringes on the rights of people in what’s always been considered their own personal space. And a smokers’ rights organization has condemned the idea, noting it would be completely unenforceable.
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Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Valentino Kanzyani Remix) 
