Reply With QuoteNow there is an enforceable law.
The state government of South Australia has announced it will fine people who smoke while a child under the age of 16 is in the car $75. The fines will be issued by the traffic police.
Now there is an enforceable law.
I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
*points at australian smokers* ha ha
be free
This is getting ridiculous.
And what if the child also smokes?
we still have you beat.
U.S. city (or town) bans all smoking!! (except in private homes)
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articl...w.php?id=66988
I wonder how that is enforcable and if its even legal. If i smoke in my car with my kids the windows are down and none of them sit in the front seat cause of the air bag. And the ciggarette is always out the window.
When you find yourself arguing with an idiot, you might want to rethink who the idiot really is.
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Being dyslexic is hard work. I don't even try anymore.
Wtf? How hard is it to just toss a cig out the window, or smash it into an ashtray? What a waste of ink this law was...
"Throw the cig down the well"
Banana
Take off every 'cig'
Originally posted by Dis
we still have you beat.
U.S. city (or town) bans all smoking!! (except in private homes)
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articl...w.php?id=66988
Smokers are too stupid/hopelessly addicted that somebody has to do it for them...
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
Smoking in your car with kids
Even if the windows are down, they're getting second hand smoke.
This strikes me as just as enforceable as Connecticut's cell phone law (no cell phone while driving), though.
-Arrian
grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
I bet you throw the cig out of the window when you've finished as well...Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
I wonder how that is enforcable and if its even legal. If i smoke in my car with my kids the windows are down and none of them sit in the front seat cause of the air bag. And the ciggarette is always out the window.
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
I would NEVER smoke with my children in the car.
And I never throw the cig out the window. Besides maybe starting a fire, or that it's littering, it might also distract a driver behind me... especially if it flew into their open window. People that do that should be shot
And I would never take my children into a smoking bar
Keep on Civin'
RIP Baron O
Arkansas just passed a similar law, banning smoking in a vehicle in which a child under 6 and under 60 lbs is in a car seat.
A child under 6... yeah, because it's ok once they turn 7? Odd law.
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I confess to throwing a few cigarettes out of my window in my time. I'm reformed now, though. My bad.
-Arrian
grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
I never smoked in the car when my daughter was young. I rarely do now that she's older except for one every now and then on a long trip.
The OT at APOLYTON is like watching the Special Olympics. Certain people try so hard to debate despite their handicaps.
Baron O RIP.
Sarcasm noted.Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Now there is an enforceable law.
This is quite enforcable. Just as seatbelt laws and cell phone bans. The charging officer will testify to what they saw.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
That is my number one pet peeve about smoking, people throwing cigs out the windows of cars or dropping them on the pavement...Originally posted by Arrian
I confess to throwing a few cigarettes out of my window in my time. I'm reformed now, though. My bad.
It happens so often by people from all walks of life, it ends up being difficult to believe that there are smokers that actually DON'T litter with their butts!
Another case of the minority/majority giving the rest a bad name.
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
It was a selfish thing to do, but so common that I didn't really think about it.
Not an issue now, since I quit. But I hadn't smoked in my car for years before finally quitting.
-Arrian
grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
If they're concerned about safety and health, they should ban taking kids in the car before they ban smoking with kids in the car. This is just overzealous, hysterical nanny state mentality going in full swing.
About half a billion things should be banned before smoking in one's own car. Including cars.
Yes, I'm usually careful about where I dispose my butts, but with the recent ban in Chicago we've been forced to move to certain places to smoke out doors, but in their infinite wisdom, they just removed the asstrays from the illegal spots instead of moving them 10 feet to where people can now smoke. Quite stupid. To compound their stupidity, in response to people having no place to put their butts, they've hired people to sweep them up instead of just taking the ash trays that they removed and relocating them. So now, I just drop it there for the guy to pick up. It's just stupid. When they put the ash trays back out, (in some places they've now figured it out) I'll start using them.
The OT at APOLYTON is like watching the Special Olympics. Certain people try so hard to debate despite their handicaps.
Baron O RIP.
I've been experiencing this lately. Places that once had ashtrays have since removed them. Forget sweeping the butts, some places need a shovel.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
Originally posted by rah
they just removed the asstrays from the illegal spots...
Now I know why they call them cigarette butts!
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
Damn, I noticed i did that in one spot and corrected it. I guess i should have reviewed it more carefully. But yeah that's why they call them butts.
The OT at APOLYTON is like watching the Special Olympics. Certain people try so hard to debate despite their handicaps.
Baron O RIP.
They do smell like ass, after all.
-Arrian
grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
Now, now...
We wouln't want to make rah the butt of our jokes, would we?
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
Already happened and likely to happen many more times.
Damn good thing that I have a sense of humor.
If we can't laugh at ourselves we shouldn't be allowed to laugh at others.
The OT at APOLYTON is like watching the Special Olympics. Certain people try so hard to debate despite their handicaps.
Baron O RIP.
This time we can laugh our asses off!
"History is a lie that has been honed like a weapon by people who have suppressed the truth. Centuries from now, your own history will also be suppressed."
I'm all for heavy taxing, and gradual ban of tobacco from public life, and public health.
I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"
It's already heavily taxed.
As for a general ban, thank god I live in merica.
The OT at APOLYTON is like watching the Special Olympics. Certain people try so hard to debate despite their handicaps.
Baron O RIP.
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