----- Original Message ----- From: "Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
someone who smokes while pregnant should be fined...sending them to jail is sort of defeating the purpose. along with this, smoking ANYWHERE where a child is, should be a crime, but again, sending these people to jail would end up leaving parentless children.... large fines, say $1,000 everytime someone is caught. but like drunk driving laws, they will never work. thats why i suggest fines. *************** That sort of sexist law would never get beyond a committee hearing room. Only women would be fined under such a law? You would have to say that NO ONE could smoke around a pregnant woman (or anywhere a child MIGHT be). Of course, then you will run into the problem of many women not even knowing if they are pregnant until it becomes obvious ( my wife continued to have periods until her fifth month with each of our three children). So you would have to prohibit smoking around any woman who MIGHT be pregnant. Or around any woman that might be underage. Imagine a smokers conundrum: Is she pregnant or is she just fat? If I ask, I might get slapped!! Or, I swear your honor, I didn't know she was only fourteen, I could'a swore she was eighteen!! The solution is obvious. Prohibit ANY woman from smoking and anybody from smoking near any woman! PEACE Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer Franklin County Libertarian Party (614) 891-8841 P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable" John F. Kennedy
