01-08-2008, 03:54 AM
A lovely new law in California that bans smoking in your own car.
Next on the agenda - who knows.
Maybe we should just taser anyone who smokes - or drinks.
Maybe we should use asset forfeiture laws to ensure these dangerous criminals comply with the law.
http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/614162.html
"Never before has California banned smoking on private property used exclusively by members of the owner's family – until now.
Beginning this month, motorists can be fined $100 for lighting up a cigarette, cigar or pipe in their own car, even in their driveway, if one passenger is a child.
The law marks a new frontier in more than two decades of state smoking restrictions that focused on workplaces, public buildings, restaurants, airplanes, tot lots and gathering spots.
It also comes as cigar-smoking Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is teaming with Democrats to push a proposed ballot measure that would increase cigarette taxes by $1.75 per pack to expand health insurance.
Lawmakers returning to the Capitol this week will consider pushing the state's smoking prohibitions even further.
Sen. Jenny Oropeza, the Long Beach Democrat who proposed California's new vehicle-smoking law to lower children's exposure to dangerous smoke, already has proposed legislation to ban smoking on state-owned beaches or parks."
Next on the agenda - who knows.
Maybe we should just taser anyone who smokes - or drinks.
Maybe we should use asset forfeiture laws to ensure these dangerous criminals comply with the law.
http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/614162.html
"Never before has California banned smoking on private property used exclusively by members of the owner's family – until now.
Beginning this month, motorists can be fined $100 for lighting up a cigarette, cigar or pipe in their own car, even in their driveway, if one passenger is a child.
The law marks a new frontier in more than two decades of state smoking restrictions that focused on workplaces, public buildings, restaurants, airplanes, tot lots and gathering spots.
It also comes as cigar-smoking Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is teaming with Democrats to push a proposed ballot measure that would increase cigarette taxes by $1.75 per pack to expand health insurance.
Lawmakers returning to the Capitol this week will consider pushing the state's smoking prohibitions even further.
Sen. Jenny Oropeza, the Long Beach Democrat who proposed California's new vehicle-smoking law to lower children's exposure to dangerous smoke, already has proposed legislation to ban smoking on state-owned beaches or parks."
