Expanding the scope of it’s prohibitionist sights beyond guns, the progressive left is taking aim at another of it’s long-standing pet peeves: smoking.
Leading the charge against tobacco is one John H. Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University as well as the founder of Action on Smoking and Health. Firmly convinced that the country must be cleansed of this scourge, Banzhaf has devised a modest proposal to help cut down on smoking: charging parents who smoke with child abuse.
Describing his plan before a conference of lawyers of and attorneys from all over the continent, the professor argues that doctors can file child abuse complaints against parents if their children end up in the emergency room due to respiratory problems rising from their parent’s smoking. Going even further, he claimed that doctors in turn could be sued for medical malpractice if they failed to file such complaints.
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i agree
Insurance b like . You cant prove tobacco causes cancer. We need insurance Reform they are out of controll.
Ok, I’ll use progressives own words: if you don’t like smoking, don’t smoke. Keep your laws off my body, etc. Works for the ultimate form of child abuse, i.e. abortion
Idiots and morons should be sterilized.
Moron.
I’ll stop smoking when I can take my kids for a walk without inhaling exhaust from hundreds of cars. There are way more harmful pollutants we should be fighting before nit picking small ones
Wow- smoking is child abuse? So what next? News flash it is not up to you to decide if that is so- i do not smoke but laws are not for psuedo dictatorship. And how I raise my child is my business. Damn Liberals go too far!!
You’re a moron your looking for control that’s all it’s about
Another idiot
Parent who drink alcohol , parents who swear, parents who watch porn etc.etc.etc.