No Smoking! In Your Own Car!

No Smoking! In Your Own Car!

California has done it, (Perhaps the FIRST state to do so? I do not really know.) passed a law effective January 1, 2008, that it is ILLEGAL to smoke in your own car IF ANYONE in the car is under 18!!!

Now they say you can not be ‘stopped’, ‘pulled over’ for this violation, but if you are stopped for any ‘other’ reason and you are smoking with a minor in the car, you will be ticketed. But I am sure it will not be long before that changes!

This in the face of study after study that ‘second hand smoke’ does not pose a significant danger (do some Google research folks!)

But that, or even smoking is not the point – the point is government in our private lives. What ever happened to ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness’? Or ‘Live & Let Live’? Or even, ‘Mind Your Own Business’?

When, ohhh when, are people going to revolt against the government telling us what we can do ON/IN OUR OWN PROPERTY?

You can bet your bippy that within ten years, big brother is gonna be telling you what you can eat at the fast food place, where & when you can travel in the US, that you HAVE to have immunizations and mammograms, and perhaps even be telling you what you can do in your own bedroom.

(Remember, this all started with the FIRST no smoking laws: No smoking in elevators, & movies. Then it moved on to ‘grocery stores’). Then came the ‘seat belt’ laws, the ‘helmet’ laws, and now it’s escalating beyond belief.

Wake up people! When did Americans turn into a bunch of sheep?