Smoking in vehicles with children.?

Recently Halifax, Nova Scotia(Canada) a by-law was just passed that makes smoking in your vehicle with children illegal.
Now although myself I smoke but would never smoke in a vehicle with a child, I believe this is a violation civil rights.

Before Anti-Smokers jump down my throat, I don't agree with smoking in a house of vehicle with young children in it but I do believe that should be the choice of the parent.

I would be interested to hear other opinions on it and if you think its a human rights violation.

Nor should we allow our children to eat junk food...or over eat..or drink sugared beverages, .or play football(dangerous) or ride bikes without a full suit of armor, or play with animals, etc, etc, etc....
The problem I have with the whole thing is....
Why the hell are we allowing our gov't to make the rules of our everyday lives???? Communism is on it's way!

Smoking while a child is in a closed space causes the child to inhale as much smoke as the smoker. This is a pretty clear case of child abuse. We don't let a one year old child smoke and for good reason. We should not allow their parents to force them to smoke by smoking in their presence.

If we make that a choice of the parent then parents should have the right to beat their children as well. It's the same thing.

I believe this is in the best interested of the children and their health. I don't see a law out there saying that it's up to the parent to or okay to harm their child(ren).

If anything, I think it's protecting the human rights of the children and allowing them a fresh healthy start to life.

A human rights violation? I don't think smoking, of any kind, falls under human rights. And I especially don't think subjecting kids to poisonous air falls under that. You have no more "right" to foul your kids air than you would to feed them tainted food or fouled water.

Vehicle operating guidelines are entirely under the auspices of state regulation and as such, it is eminently legal for the state to pass such laws.

People can't legally buy or smoke tobacco until they are 18 in the U.S. In my opinion, children under the age of 18 should not be subjected to someone else's smoke, as they are not of legal age.

They just passed a similar law in California.

Big Brother is alive and well.

Why do so many people get so upset about violation civil rights ? The question should be why are people so stupid that we need the government to bring in these laws? You say you don;t smoke around children but it should be the parents right to decide. Now go back and read that again!! A parent should have the right to harm their child that is what you are saying. We heard the same outcry when they made wearing helmets a law --Oh it is our right not to wear them--
I know Americans fought for freedom and you do not want to lose it and I agree but the freedom to harm a child, the freedom to have your brains wiped all over the road. The choice not to wear a seat belt.
No one is taking away your rights they are protecting you and the children. ---I am from Halifax and this is the start of some great laws that will continue across both our free Countries

I agree. It's none of their business what I do in MY CAR what so ever. If my children is in the car I roll the window down but then I roll the window down even when I'm the only one in the car. I live in a city that has many factories that put out 300 times more smoke and carcinogens than a cigarette could ever put out but yet they say nothing about them.

The Second-Hand Smoke studies that showed how bad it is, were all studies of extended exposure: non-smokers who were married to smokers who smoked in the house 20+ years; co-workers in smoke-filled offices 40 hours a week for 20+ years.

There has never been a study showing that breathing in 2nd-hand smoke for small amounts of time now-and-then is harmful at all.

I wish people would take this into account, but I seem to be the only person who realizes all this.