I don’t sweat the small stuff. Actually I try not to sweat the small stuff. Some times a little small stuff creeps in, and I sweat it. I don’t get worked up about things that I don’t need to. I watch the news, but don’t get riled up by current affairs. A car cuts me off, I just get on with my day (and perhaps wish them a little bad karma if required).
BUT there is one thing that irks me a bit. Smoking. As a kid my parents smoked. My Ma gave it up when we were little, and Dad has given up in recent years. Back then as kids we hated it. We’d cover our mouths with the sleeves of our clothing and give our parents a hard time about how much we hated it. We really did hate it. The smell. Ugh.
As kids Dad would smoke in the car and we weren’t allowed to wind down the windows all the way. It felt like we were dying. There was no fresh air, and it just stunk. We stunk.
Back then it was pretty normal. Parents smoked with kids in the car. A few years before that it was okay to drink and drive.
Now we’ve come leaps and bounds… today a law has come into action that no one is allowed to smoke in a car when children are on board. That just seems like common sense to me.
I’m glad that it’s been passed. There are many considerate smokers. They don’t smoke in confined spaces. They pick up their butts. There are inconsiderate smokers too though. Smokers that think second hand smoke does no harm.
I’m glad that there is a law now. It’s good that the children have been given a voice. Despite the dangers of passive smoking… it’s just not very pleasant and children shouldn’t have to put up with it.
What do you think?
Urgh, I hate smoke. So gross. The guy I sit next to at work is a heavy smoker and goes out for at least 6 smoke breaks a day, he stinks. Other forms of stinkiness aren’t acceptable so with the stink of cigarettes? Interestingly, I have noticed far more smokers in Adelaide than in Canberra… Rundle Mall is shocking at lunchtime, smokers everywhere.
my mum has been smoking ever since she met my 'step-dad' [they arent married]. and she has gone the last 20 days without one – she is on those tablets that cost a truckload of money but are so worth it. my step dad still smokes. but only when someone comes over – so roughly one cig a day.
but they both used to smoke in the car and house and i used to hate it. even when i go home now i can tell the difference for my lungs sake. its harder to breathe.
but i love the law. i think that is a great law and might make people think twice about smoking in the car with children. or adults for that matter [well make them more considerate hopefully].
I think it's a fantastic law, it makes me absolutely insane when I see someone smoking with kids in the car– and even worse, the windows shut– disgusting.
Absolutely, I agree. My parents were never smokers so it's not something I thought about too much, until becoming a parent myself.
It is a great law!. Neither of my parents smoked, I smoked on/off through out my early 20's and I gave it up the day I found out I was pregnant. It really upsets me when I see parents smoking around their kids, pregnant people smoking and anyone with a lit ciggie near a baby. It is just so thoughtless
Smoking is just stinking freaking awful! Glad they passed the law and glad you told us about it!
I agree it's a great law.
And one of my pet peeves is why many (not ALL I'm sure) smokers think it's okay to just drop their butts anywhere. The reason they don't carry them with them, is because cigarette butts are disgusting, stinky & dirty – so why should the rest of the world put up with them? And just because they're small individually, doesn't mean they don't have a big effect on landfills. On Cleanup Australia Day, just in one spot in a children's park I picked up enough to fill – say – a shoebox.
Complaining over! It's great that so many children will now be spared some passive-smoking.
I think the new law is great – I hate cigarette smoke and kids definitely shouldn't have to put up with it.
I am so glad that law is now in place – breaks my heart to see children having to put up with that – now they just need one to ensure smokers aren't allowed to smoke anywhere near the entrance to shopping centers – there is nothing worse then having to inhale that stench when shopping, especially when your 2 year old walk so so slowly!
I'm all for it. I find smoking to be a filthy habit. I hate it more than anything else.
I'm so glad this law has been passed, maybe kids now will be spared what my sister and I had to put up with.
My parents are both packet a day selfish smokers. They always smoked in the car and in the house despite my getting constant throat infections and my sister being an asthmatic. We would beg, plead, cry, scream but they refused to take their filthy habit away from our young lungs. Dad frequently told us “it's my house, I pay the rent, I'll do what I like” or “it's my car, I pay for the petrol …”
And the stink! OMG the stink, I actually ended up in detention at school once because I reeked of smoke and the teacher wouldn't believe that I didn't smoke myself.
I'm still very resentful of them for my many years of suffering from their secondhand smoke.
I once told them if I got lung cancer I would sue them and I really would, trouble is though that neither of them has any money.
*sigh*
Elizabeth Saxe Coburg-Gotha is an evil woman, why do we slave away at work our whole lives for money with her face on