Punishing parents who smoke around children

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Should the govt. pass laws to punish parents who smoke in the home?

 

[Evil Eye]

To what end, saving more obnoxious kids? I think not!

Anyway, I don't really think it'd work...

 

[Jazzy]

What parents do in their own home is their business. While I don't approve of smoking around children, this law would be impossible to enforce.

 

[pizza]

Excatly what other people said-You cant really enforce it, but there has to be a way to reduce 2nd hand smoke

 

[McConnaughay]

What parent do in their own home is their business. While I don't approve of smoking around children, this law would be impossible to enforce.

Agreed.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

It shouldnt be legal.. They are causing their child all sorts of harm and maybe even slowly giving them cancer.

How hard is it to stand out side for a couple minutes to smoke a cigarette?

Also it wouldnt be that hard to enforce, have the school urge kids to tell someone when someone is smoking in the house or if they come to school stinking like cigarette smoke, then the teacher should report them. Its almost like a form of child abuse in my point of view.

 

[Corleone]

It shouldnt be legal.. They are causing their child all sorts of harm and maybe even slowly giving them cancer.

How hard is it to stand out side for a couple minutes to smoke a cigarette?

Also it wouldnt be that hard to enforce, have the school urge kids to tell someone when someone is smoking in the house or if they come to school stinking like cigarette smoke, then the teacher should report them. Its almost like a form of child abuse in my point of view.

I agree. Honestly, it's not that hard to detect it and to enforce it. If you've been around smokers, you'll smell like smoke, so if a child continuously smells like smoke, then there's a problem.

 

[IcarusForde]

Agreed with Nebulous & Jughead. Second hand smoke is just a less visible form of child abuse.

 

[Bluezone777]

I wouldn't want any law like this passed simply because the last thing you need is the government getting involved in your own affairs simply when it has been shown itself to be incompetent in anything it gets itself into. I am all for not smoking around children but I don't see the need for more laws and therefore more people behind bars or more money for the government in the form of fines that won't get spent on anything worthwhile.

 

[hotspot]

Totally, my parents smoke and it's horrible. They've probabally taken a year off my life becuase of all the second hand smoke.

 

[Nelliel]

Hey, everyone has their own habits -- we can't go around banning every parent in every household with one. What they do is of their business -- what happens to their children of the future is up to them. Interfering that much into people's lives is what has them with the goddamned habits to begin with

 

[Tokiko Tsumura]

What parent do in their own home is their business.

By that logic beating the hell out of your kid is fine, as long as you do it in your own home.

 

[Jazzy]

By that logic beating the hell out of your kid is fine, as long as you do it in your own home.

The thread title was punishing parents who smoke around children. You decided to quote only a portion of my reply. My full reply was: What parents do in their own home is their business. While I don't approve of smoking around children, this law would be impossible to enforce. I don't see anything in my reply where I state that beating the hell out of your kid is fine.

 

[Tokiko Tsumura]

Logically your statement was a sweeper. It could easily be mistaken as what I mentioned.

Sorry. I taught English so I have a habit of picking apart little things like that.

 

[Scout]

Yes, I think so. They are endangering their children's health with that secondhand crap.



I also think that they should punish parents who smoke or drink at pregnancy, because it causes birth defects and harms the baby.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Why? Parents can't do the parenting on their own? They need the government - a questionable group at best - to tell them what to do? And then, where does it end? How much of our private, personal lives do we allow the already corrupt government into?

This has nothing to do with personal lives. Its about parents who are causing harm to their children by smoking in the house.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I see your brain-washing process is complete. You'll be a lot more comfy in your natural world.

huh?



Anyways, I dont see how a person can sit there smoking a cigarette while their small child is breathing in the (more harmeful) 2nd hand smoke. If a parent really loved their child they would step outside for a few minutes to save their child potential breathing problems, asthma and even cancer.