Outlaw Parental Smoking

Smoking in front of your kids is not much different from leaving your kids in a car in the summer. Though the issue of the government intervening in personal space comes to mind, parents dumb enough to smoke around their kids should still see punishment for their brainless act.

Should we also make it a felony offense for parents to purchase happy meals because of the relationship between consuming fast foods has to obesity? What about a parent’s failure to set a good example by exercising—jail time? Where do we draw the line?

Parents knows best. If they know that their spawns deserve to be choked with carcinogenic smoke, then they should. Who are we to fight natural selection? Just like it is never too late for a parent to abort their mistakes—even if (maybe especially if) their spawns are 50 years old and still living with Mommy.

It is my personal belief not to smoke, not only for me but for the people I love. And besides, I’d rather spend the money on other important stuff.

Anyone questioning whether or not smoke affects kids has more problems than smoking in front of their little ones. As a smoker and father of three girls, I would never dare smoke in front of my little ones—then again, don’t take that cigarette away from me on the terrace at night.

It’s an interesting and scary question, really, but something I heard today scared me even more:

National health care for children is paid for already, but is being stalled out in legislation—that’s right, is already paid for children throughout our country, by a 61-cent tax on packs of cigarettes.

Now here’s a question: If we despise and fear smoking so much, can we morally depend on it to provide funding for social services for children or any citizens?

So when is the report on fourth-hand smoke coming out? Even though I’m loath to agree with a self-proclaimed ace reporter who calls himself the Hittman, this is a ridiculous study. Humans pick up all sorts of fatal or dangerous-sounding contaminants on them including those found in cigarettes just by walking down the street.

If trace amounts of substances that could increase cancer risks over a lifetime of exposure are the legal yardstick by which smoking is or isn’t banned for certain people, what about parents who expose their children to UV radiation from the sun? UV rays are mutagenic and can cause melanoma. So parents who have children shouldn’t be allowed to take them outside where UV rays could raise their risks for cancer.

If smoking is so bad and so dangerous and so poisonous, why not just go ahead and ban it? Oh right. Prohibitions don’t work, and the states like the tax revenues from tobacco sales and the billions being paid out in fines by tobacco companies from the great medical evidence-withholding settlement. So we have to put up with a barrage of alarmist studies about all the terrible things in cigarettes and cigarette smoke. And some of these studies aren’t even true. A pulled commercial for an anti-smoking group once claimed that 56,000 people a year die of smoking while the CDC has the number at around 3,000. Exaggerate much? Like by a factor of 18 much?

Illegal for parents to smoke, but we have freedom of choice to abort an accident.

Illegal to smoke but OK to physically or sexually abuse children, because no one can smell that.

Illegal to smoke, but go ahead and have that drink after work because you worked hard and you deserve it. The kids don’t need you to be of sound mind to interact with them.

Illegal to smoke, but oops, if our children play with our gun.

Maybe this society should stop trying to control others and look at our own perfect life. To quit smoking is very difficult and more so due to all of these perfect people trying to dictate to the rest of us.

Please correct me if I am wrong—47 million smokers, an exaggerated supposition of 470,000 premature deaths from smoking. Isn’t that 1%? I am confused.

I was raised with a father who smoked. I am going on 40 years old and have no health problems. He used to smoke in the car with the windows rolled up, and on long trips he may smoke four or five times before we would arrive. I think it is another way to control, and I am sick of people telling me what I can and can’t do. It’s my life. God granted me life and no one has authority over what I do with it. Until the government starts paying for the kids’ school clothes and the doctor visits and the school lunches and so on, I will raise them how I see fit. If you don’t want us to smoke, you should not have invented them. It’s time the American people say enough is enough. Thank you for allowing me to voice my opinion.

Let’s first figure out who children belong to, starting at the beginning. A woman has an egg that gets fertilized by a man, after which a pregnancy occurs. The woman gestates for nine months or so, gives birth to a baby, and said child carries the DNA from the parents. Every other person with an opinion as to how to raise the child is just an opinion of unrelated strangers with no ties to the family and as such should have “rights” as to how those parents raise their child. www.smokersclubinc.com

Why does it seem the U.S. is attempting to pass laws that eliminate all risk?

Okay, so what we are saying here is that in the future America we will need a license to have kids? We have absolutely no control over welfare cases popping out babies for more money, and they want to impose laws like this on hardworking members of our country?

This is an extremely dangerous and slippery slope, and Americans should be absolutely terrified that this war on American citizens is getting out of control.

I’m sorry. Where is the boat out of this communistic society, and where do I purchase my ticket?

Who wrote these pieces? Attribution, please.

The largest study of secondhand smoke exposure (conducted by the World Health Organization) found that adult children of smokers had significantly fewer lung cancers than the adult children of non-smoking parents. Shouldn’t we be insisting that all parents smoke around their children? The debate is over. Light up.

I have four siblings, and we were all raised around smoking. We are all in our 50s now, and none of us has cancer or major health problems because of it. Smoking is just like any addiction, not easy to quit. To make it illegal for those with children to smoke would be just as difficult to control as trying to stop drug addicts, drunks, those addicted to porn, and abusive parents from raising children. More children are killed by drunk drivers, neglect from drug-addict parents, or abuse then secondhand smoke. What are they going to do? Take the children away and put them in foster care, where they are unloved, psychologically damaged, abused, and sometimes killed? The government has spent billions on trying to control what goes on behind closed doors and it still isn’t able to stop it.

Yes, make it illegal for parents to smoke. In addition, any of you fat parents out there must go on a diet and show that you are losing weight to promote a healthy role model for your children. Also, parents will no longer be allowed to buy alcohol, even though you may not drink in front of the little angels, the effects of alcohol may alter behavior and cause them harm.

Just for good measure we should mark all parents’ driver’s licenses with a giant red P, and provide a special license plate for their easy identification.

Soon enough you will once again not be able to tell the difference between the U.S. and England, where no one is accountable for their actions and the government is there to solve everyone’s problems.

Both my parents smoked and developed heart problems. I used to and stopped so that I don’t end up like them. Smoking is bad, but lack of choice is worse.

How about we start being responsible for our own actions instead of Uncle Sam telling us how to live?

Soon the nanny state will be telling me I can’t send my kids off to work in the coal mines anymore. This stuff has gotten so out of hand: compulsory education, mandatory vaccinations, car seats, child labor laws, etc. Now you can’t even force your own kids to inhale toxins and carcinogens from burning tobacco. Are we living in America anymore? Parents who smoke around children are just preserving their right to treat their children as they see fit. What I do to my kids is nobody else’s business, especially the state’s (www.smokersclub.org).

This is pure fascism.

Make it illegal, along with allowing your child anywhere near car exhaust or plastic, feeding your child non-organic food, wearing synthetic fibers near your child, watching reality TV in the presence of your child, and wearing Crocs.

Many of the chemicals present in “third-hand” smoke are aromatic hydrocarbons. Sounds nasty, doesn’t it?

Any odor/aroma/stink contains high levels of aromatic hydrocarbons. These are the compounds that we smell. Without them, there would be almost no scent in nature. Next time you smell a rose, or relish the aroma of baking cookies, or popping popcorn, remember that you are breathing in toxic and dangerous chemicals.

Next time someone yanks your worry-beads with rumor of radioactivity, and horror, remember that we are completely surrounded by radioactivity. The very rocks and atmosphere around us give off natural radioactivity that far surpasses anything found in a human-generated organic product. The sun and stars bathe the Earth in X-rays and neutrons and gamma radiation; they always have. The Earth’s magnetic field is not 100% protective.

Stories like this should remind us that we are constantly being manipulated by people with a political agenda that increases their personal power and wealth at our expense.