City Council May Ban Smoking While Driving Kids

Just what we need, more policing.

The New York City Council is a complete waste of time and money.

Where does it end? We do not need the government to tell us how to live, do we? Common sense should be enough for an individual to make correct choices for their life. Not making it a law. Too many laws and no one to enforce them anyway. Otherwise children would not die at the hands of their parents..... Enough already!

They should also ban smoking while walking, as it is really annoying when one of these selfish assholes is spewing forth smoke forcing others to breathe this crap. If you want to kill yourself this way, please do, but keep the smoke to yourself and don't force your stupid drug habit on others.

can we also ban having fun? I'm getting really sick of people smiling, I think city council and the NYPD really need to crack down on it.

This is great. My parents smoked around us all day, including trapped in cars. I smelled like smoke as a little kid, my brother got asthma, and although I am extrememly health conscious today, I have many health problems because of my parents' habit. It is a mild form of child abuse.

I'm a smoker that is trying to quit. However I feel that smoking is a bad habit to pick up (should have listened to my smoker friends before I started.) Making smokers feel guilty for smoking is not going to make them quit. Bottom line, if the suits want people to stop polluting the clean air for non-smokers, make it illegal. If they aren't prepared to do that then they need to find some other way to release their hot air.

What's up with the headline? Is it supposed to be "...while driving 'with' kids"?

It is also still illegal to smoke while riding kids.

haha. i *heart* unenforceable policy making! now, um, if we could devise a commuter tax on people driving their cars OUT of the city in the morning, that would be rad. anyone up for a f o o t b a l l stadium on the west side? imma going to to move to, like, maine! blloberg for president!

Just ban cigarettes. You're a complete tool of the tobacco companies if you smoke not to mention you're killing your lungs.

Remember how well Prohibition worked? Like there wouldn't be delivery services operating 10 minutes after a ban went into effect. The cigarettes would likely be either made on an Indian reservation or smuggled through one.

You know these Council people are beginning to really bug me ! While I to understand the motive here for banning smoking in one's car, This is a little overboard ! It's like telling a smoker they can't light up in their own home because it poison's others whom breathe in the vapors . As a "Part-Driver" myself, If I were a smoker there would be a serious problem with someone telling me that I couldn't light up in my ride ! Alcohol, I can see because it impairs the abilities of it's victim (That being the Driver) ! That makes all the sense in the world, but smoking in the car with passengers is just going to far ! Posted by; "Still Not Amused"

My neighbor leans out of her bedroom window and smokes. It smells like someone is standing in my apartment smoking. I can't put my fan in the window--and yes, I've asked her not to smoke when my fan is in the window. I would even just ignore it if she did it earlier in the evening. But considering that she smokes at 8:30 pm or 10, or 12:45 or even, my personal favorite, 2 am, I think that a ban I've heard SLC has would be appropriate--something like you can't smoke within 40 feet of a building. Which would be funny--people smoking in the middle of the street here. Heh heh. Gripe and moan all you want smokers, but I'm sick of inhaling your carcinogenic habit. Kill yourself slowly, by all means, but do it away from me and mine.

I agree smoking around children is a form of child abuse, and I really wish people were smart enough to refrain from doing so, but on the other hand this law is a little extreme.

I feel to start smoking banning in cars is moving us closer and closer to living in a police state. Why should NYPD spend thier time watching out for these people, when there are FAR more serious crimes they need to work on stopping, like kids shooting each other in the subways.

We need to encode "let them off first" as a law. And, city council should ban the word "youse."

OTOH, when has city council NOT been pathetic? What are they supposed to DO all day if not make up this nonsense.

How exactly are they going to enforce this? Are police going to start pulling over drivers who are smoking and then ID their passengers? It just seems impractical.

i'd only be for this if the $$ would offset some the parking fine B.S. no new money for the NYPD. we all know they're not protecting us from terrorists. i see them in the subway all the time just hanging out talking about "the game." so if they want to charge people for this. stop calling it a moral crusade, we know from the education system that this city doesn't reeeally care about kids. just say, if we charge these exorbitant rates from bad parents, we'll cut down on all the towing of your car when you park three inches too close to the 90th fire hydrant on your block.

I'm all for this. Smoking is DISGUSTING!

SMOKE FREE NYC!!!!!

It is illegal to smoke anywhere outdoors in the town of Belmont, California.

I have had this fantasy that one day all those smokers who make the NYC streets so unpleasant would one day, when they want to smoke, have to go up to some godforsaken outpost far away - maybe East New york. Make it really hard to get to. All the smokers would just stand in one enclosed place. Maybe they would get a sense of how hard it is for the rest of us to be assaulted by smoke.

Less is more in any case. Amazing how many people in this post are willing to sign their freedoms away as long as it's behavior they don't like. Of course it cuts both ways, so just wait until something you like to do gets banned and we'll see if you change your tune. And the road to serfdom continues...