One of the local MP's in Ontario is interested in making it illegal for adults to smoke in a vehicle with kids under the age of 16 in the car. I'm not a smoker so I'm prejudiced - lol - but I think they are taking it too far. Every public place that has closed in walls and a roof is smoke-free in Ontario right now. A car is your personal property. i get that a 2 yr old has not made the decision to be stuck in a car with a smoker, but I wonder how they propose to moniter this?

What are your thoughts?

I imagine that they might try to monitor it the same way they are trying to monitor some adults that talk on their cell phones while operating their vehicles with young children as passengers. They call it "Voluntary Child Endangerment" around here.

I don't smoke, either. I DO agree that children have the right to breath air that is as fresh as possible... just because a person brings a child into this world doesn't give that same person the right to contaminate the child or the air that the child breathes. You wouldn't hand a young child a cigarette to smoke FIRST hand... why would anyone encourage them to smoke SECOND hand? Hmmmm?

A smoker CHOOSES to smoke... it doesn't give him/her the right to choose that all around him/her must smoke, too. I, as an adult, can walk away if it bothers me. A small child strapped into his/her carseat... well, I always think of the gas chamber scenes that can be seen in movies. They cough, they hack, they suffocate... still strapped in. What is a small child to do?

Roll down the window, you suggest? Well, it's Winter around most of these United States. Kinda cold, you know? It's cold in Canada, too!! Want to subject the child to pneumonia as well? No, I don't think so.

A responsible parent should wait until maybe they get home to have that cigarette and if moodswings are the top priority of preventing... then that SAME smoker needs to ask Self... "Do I have a habit... or does my habit have me?"