Commies Want To Ban Smoking in Cars and Language Suggests Your Home Might Be Next.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Good God. I don't know how the hell me and half of this damn city my age are alive and healthy! I don't get it. We were in cars growing up with the WINDOWS UP and exposed to a lot of second-hand smoke in the cars, in the home, in restaurants, and everywhere! I mean how the hell did we survive! We must be so lucky!!!!

Another "OMG WE MUST DO SOMETHING NOW!!!" bullshit study from the CDC. What else is new I suppose though. It's all scare tactics at the end of the day. Especially with the language of "there is no safe level of exposure." I mean, cmon? REALLY?

The CDC and laws regarding smoking bans can go ** themselves.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/kids-breathe-smoke-cars-cdc-15519814

Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.

In the first national estimate of its kind, a report from government researchers says more than 1 in 5 high school students and middle schoolers ride in cars while others are smoking.

This kind of secondhand smoke exposure has been linked with breathing problems and allergy symptoms, and more restrictions are needed to prevent it, the report says.

With widespread crackdowns on smoking in public, private places including homes and cars are where people encounter secondhand smoke these days. Anti-smoking advocates have zeroed in on cars because of research showing they're potentially more dangerous than smoke-filled bars and other less confined areas.

The research, from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was released online Monday in Pediatrics.

The study is based on national surveys done at public and private high schools and middle schools. Students were asked how often they rode in cars while someone was smoking within the past week. The most common answer was one or two days. The smoker could mean other kids or parents; the study didn't specify.

A CDC fact sheet suggests even small amounts of secondhand smoke can be risky.

"There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke," the CDC says.

Overall, 22 percent of teens and pre-teens were exposed to secondhand smoke in cars in 2009, the latest data available. That figure declined gradually during the decade, from 40 percent in 2000, the study found. But still, the numbers of kids still facing the risks "is certainly problematic," said CDC researcher Brian King, the study's lead author.

"The car is the only source of exposure for some of these children, so if you can reduce that exposure, it's definitely advantageous for health," King said.

The CDC advises parents to not allow smoking in their homes and cars, and says opening a car window will not protect kids from cigarette smoke inside.

Measures banning smoking in cars when children are present have been enacted in a handful of states and proposed in several others. The study authors say similar bans should be adopted elsewhere.

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Online:

American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap.org

CDC: http://1.usa.gov/5aEqiK

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[slim 1,530]

Vote for Ron Paul and the CDC will be gone.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Good God. I don't know how the hell me and half of this damn city my age are alive and healthy! I don't get it. We were in cars growing up with the WINDOWS UP and exposed to a lot of second-hand smoke in the cars, in the home, in restaurants, and everywhere! I mean how the hell did we survive! We must be so lucky!!!!

Another "OMG WE MUST DO SOMETHING NOW!!!" bullshit study from the CDC. What else is new I suppose though. It's all scare tactics at the end of the day. Especially with the language of "there is no safe level of exposure." I mean, cmon? REALLY?

The CDC and laws regarding smoking bans can go ** themselves.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/kids-breathe-smoke-cars-cdc-15519814

Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.

In the first national estimate of its kind, a report from government researchers says more than 1 in 5 high school students and middle schoolers ride in cars while others are smoking.

This kind of secondhand smoke exposure has been linked with breathing problems and allergy symptoms, and more restrictions are needed to prevent it, the report says.

With widespread crackdowns on smoking in public, private places including homes and cars are where people encounter secondhand smoke these days. Anti-smoking advocates have zeroed in on cars because of research showing they're potentially more dangerous than smoke-filled bars and other less confined areas.

The research, from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was released online Monday in Pediatrics.

The study is based on national surveys done at public and private high schools and middle schools. Students were asked how often they rode in cars while someone was smoking within the past week. The most common answer was one or two days. The smoker could mean other kids or parents; the study didn't specify.

A CDC fact sheet suggests even small amounts of secondhand smoke can be risky.

"There is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke," the CDC says.

Overall, 22 percent of teens and pre-teens were exposed to secondhand smoke in cars in 2009, the latest data available. That figure declined gradually during the decade, from 40 percent in 2000, the study found. But still, the numbers of kids still facing the risks "is certainly problematic," said CDC researcher Brian King, the study's lead author.

"The car is the only source of exposure for some of these children, so if you can reduce that exposure, it's definitely advantageous for health," King said.

The CDC advises parents to not allow smoking in their homes and cars, and says opening a car window will not protect kids from cigarette smoke inside.

Measures banning smoking in cars when children are present have been enacted in a handful of states and proposed in several others. The study authors say similar bans should be adopted elsewhere.

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Online:

American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap.org

CDC: http://1.usa.gov/5aEqiK

Hmm. Smokers rights vs childrens rights. I wonder where public opinion on this issue will end up?

It's tragic that the founding fathers have given us the right to bear arms, and yet forgot to include the right to bear cigarettes in the constitution?

Vote for Ron Paul and the CDC will be gone.

I think a few other things would have to fall into place for that to happen.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Hmm. Smokers rights vs childrens rights.

Children do not have rights. Only embryos and fetuses are to be protected. Once they pop out, they're on their own.

Edited February 6, 2012 by Mr. Big Dog

[Dakine10 5,452]

Children do not have rights. Only embryos and fetuses are to be protected. Once they pop out, they're on their own.

A vote for Ron Paul will change all that. Oh wait ... no it won't.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

A vote for Ron Paul will change all that. Oh wait ... no it won't.

A vote for Ron Paul won't change a thing. He will retire soon whether you vote for him or not.

[SMOKE 1,426]

what kinda dumbass smokes in a car w/ kids in it anyway?

i smoke. but, i've never smoked inside my vehicles or home. it makes them stink. + others living in the home that don't smoke, don't want to breath my exhaust...its common courtesy & common sense that its unhealthy for anyone to breath smoke first or second hand.

[slim 1,530]

There's nothing wrong with smoking.

[Darnell 8,479]

Commies?

Smoking in cars is allowed, where the Communists are in power.

Just saying.

[slim 1,530]

Commies love to smoke.

They love American cigarettes too.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

what kinda dumbass smokes in a car w/ kids in it anyway?

You'd be surprised. I see it all the time.

[SMOKE 1,426]

There's nothing wrong with smoking.

there is w/ making non smokers breath & smell it....thats why i smoke outside.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

there is w/ making non smokers breath & smell it....thats why i smoke outside.

people choose who they marry/live with.

people choose which restaurants/businesses they patron.

people choose who to get into a car with

etc..

No one is "making/forcing" anyone to be around cigarette smoke.

and if someone has a kid and wants their kid exposed to it, so be it. It's their child. Not yours, not the governments.

As I said, I don't know how the ** my generation is alive and well today. If you listened to the CDC on this #######, you'd believe we were all on breathing tubes with horrible lungs and about to drop dead.

[SMOKE 1,426]

people choose who they marry/live with.

my daughter didn't get to choose.

and if someone has a kid and wants their kid exposed to it, so be it. It's their child. Not yours, not the governments.

you're not being serious here. right?

Edited February 6, 2012 by SMOKE

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

you're not being serious here. right?

Yes he is.