And Yet...I Live!

[chochokeira]

I see the BMA are once again invading that land we call, “None of your business”, suggesting that the state proscribes smoking in your own car.  As ever their supposed concern for children is the Trojan horse to boss around adults.

My dad smoked in the car and yet I am ALIVE, perhaps I was lucky, most of my friends survived mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried them. Mine didn`t .She took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. Ye gods ! Then, this evil woman put me in a cot covered with cheerful lead-based paint in a house made of asbestos.

I went on to survive , no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets no bike helmets, dad driving OVER 20 MPH Matt Kent, with no booster seat ,or even seat belt.

I survived a diet of white bread , real butter ,soft drinks with sugar in it, artic rolls chips ands sweets made of industrial colouring fizz and more sugar.

I left leave home in the morning and came back for tea. No one was able to reach me all day…and yet ..I LIVE. A day usually spent in trees, jumping bikes, eating worms fighting and yet …

I survived a catapult for my 10th birthday and a Webley air gun pistol when I was about twelve. Despite all this and to the evident irritation of many people . PAUL NEWMAN appears to have suffered no ill effects. I live , I breath, I speak, and I say, BMA…SOD OFF ! I `ll decide what I do in the car, ( or rather Mrs. Newman will and she won`t let me smoke …sigh…)

Mornin’ heroic members of the "I survived" club. Think what I`ll do next is go out , drive at over 20MPH and LOOK WHERE I AM GOING!

(Newmania blog)

[grahameb]

I am a none smoker. Well I gave up in my early twenties. Yet I see these silly laws forbidding people to smoke except in designated areas. I've even heard of someone who was fined £80 for dropping a dog end on the pavement. The reason? Because it will encourage vermin. What? Can you imagine a rat coming across a dog end and picking it up and saying to his fellow rats, "Hey, gotta light?" This latest one of trying to make it a law to0 smoke in your own car? Next they will put cctv cameras in your homes to enforce the law not to smoke in your own homes. Whilst all the time the government increases the tax on smoking. They really have got to make up their minds what they want. My dad smoked and my mother. She is still alive at 95 years old and I used to joke with my dad who was in his late 80's when he died, "Those things will shorten your life you know".
I don't smoke myself, but I protest the way our individual freedoms are gradually being taken away by this increasingly nanny state who treats us as if we haven't got enough common sense to live our own lives.

[OnceSaid]

Where I live you cannot smoke in your own home if a local council employee is coming to your home.  I must admit I did smoke in the car when my children were young.  Now when I have my grandchild in the car I dont. 

This is just another step towards a nanny state in my opinion.

[chochokeira]

I am a none smoker. Well I gave up in my early twenties. Yet I see these silly laws forbidding people to smoke except in designated areas. I've even heard of someone who was fined £80 for dropping a dog end on the pavement. The reason? Because it will encourage vermin. What? Can you imagine a rat coming across a dog end and picking it up and saying to his fellow rats, "Hey, gotta light?" This latest one of trying to make it a law to0 smoke in your own car? Next they will put cctv cameras in your homes to enforce the law not to smoke in your own homes. Whilst all the time the government increases the tax on smoking. They really have got to make up their minds what they want. My dad smoked and my mother. She is still alive at 95 years old and I used to joke with my dad who was in his late 80's when he died, "Those things will shorten your life you know".
I don't smoke myself, but I protest the way our individual freedoms are gradually being taken away by this increasingly nanny state who treats us as if we haven't got enough common sense to live our own lives.

Well said, Grahame. I am so sick of the army of apparatchiks employed solely to dictate to us how we must live our lives.

[chochokeira]

Where I live you cannot smoke in your own home if a local council employee is coming to your home.  I must admit I did smoke in the car when my children were young.  Now when I have my grandchild in the car I dont. 

This is just another step towards a nanny state in my opinion.

Exactly.

[grahameb]

Where I live you cannot smoke in your own home if a local council employee is coming to your home.  I must admit I did smoke in the car when my children were young.  Now when I have my grandchild in the car I dont. 

This is just another step towards a nanny state in my opinion.

Well hang the government employee. The really are employed by us. Hand then a gas mask and tell them it's your home you have to fit in with my way of life. Next they will be taking your children away because you smoke. I believe that, that WILL happen in the near future.