Arkansas has passed a bill banning smoking in your own vehicle if you have children (7 and under) with you. Anti-smoking activists are pursuing an “informal, unorganized and quiet movement toward making it a criminal act to smoke around kids” under any circumstances, including in parents’ own homes, which would be categorized as child abuse.

Now this makes a lot more sense than banning smoking in a bar (where kids have no business being). It is rather sad that Arkansas is leading the way! I am all for protecting children in cars and homes; however, let’s not forget that there are some places that kids should not be and that smoking is okay (outdoors).
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