Are there any laws against smoking around children?
Are there any laws pertaining to how many inches/feet you can have a cigarette around a child? I know in my state, it's against the law to smoke in a vehicle with them but what about outside of the vehicle? Just asking because my stepson has sores on him he says are cigarette burns. Last night when we were taking him back to his mom, she picked him up and held him with a cigarette in her hand. That's how he must be getting "accidently" burned. Is there a law against this?
Can you smoke cigarettes in dorm rooms in college in new york?
smoking is illegal in all public places in NY cept outside. its even ilelgal for the taxi driver alone in his own taxi. of course the irony is these same (apparently the same)people want to legalize pot
Do signs prohibiting smoking in front of a building have any legal validity?
In Illinois, the signs you see prohibiting smoking within 15 feet of an entrance are there to remind you of the generally applicable law of the state of Illinois, which makes it an offense to smoke within 15 feet of an entrance of most buildings. The sign is not what makes smoking illegal there; rather, it's P.A. 95-0017, the Smoke Free Illinois Act (410 ILCS 82). The law requires most proprietors to post the signs, which is why they are posted.In Illinois, a sign posted on private property that announces a restriction on smoking that goes beyond those stated in the aforementioned act is a declaration that the owner of the property does not consent to smoking in the manner prohibited by the sign, and that those who choose to smoke notwithstanding that notice are subject to being asked to leave. But really there aren't a lot of places where you can smoke in Illinois without violating the Smoke Free Illinois Act.I don't know what the law in New York City is, but I imagine they have some similar regulation and that the signs you see are either mandated by the regulation or are posted pursuant to regulations that permit a proprietor to prohibit smoking in or proximate to their business. The enforceability of such signs will depend on the law in force in that location.
Burning incense ok in non smoking apartment?
It shouldn't be a problem. People burn candles all the time so incense should not be a problem either. Just be aware that some apartments that have that as part of their terms have a REALLY sensitive smoke alarm that could be set off with even a candle or stove. Also be aware that some apartments lock the alarm so that you are not able to shut it off or disable it at all.
How did smoking get banned on planes and why is it not banned in public?
Lobbyists and interest groups most likely got it off from airplanes. As for banning it public, that's going to be a little more difficult. A lot of private places have already banned it; and in fact the hospital I work at you're not allowed to smoke anywhere on their grounds. And that includes in your own car. You have to leave their property if you want to smoke. I have seen patients in their hospital gown dragging an IV pole across the street just to smoke.I don't care to breathe other people's smoke but as long as you're outside, it really doesn't matter that much to me & it's none of my business what people do to their lungs. I just don't want to have to walk through a cloud of smoke getting into a building either though. And a lot of places do have a rule where you can't smoke within so many feet of the front door.Where I used to live they made a law where you were not allowed to smoke even in privately owned restaurants. If it was open to the public, there was to be no smoking anywhere inside the building by law. So things are getting a lot more restrictive already.
What was it like when smoking was allowed indoors?
Actually, despite the two previous answers here, very few people cared about it. I can remember that clearly from my childhood, when *I* hated smoke and would make a fuss about waving it away and such. I remember the reactions of the smokers asking my grandmother (on the two occasions I remember most vividly) if I was all right and my grandmother reassuring them that I was just a bit "odd" about people smoking.You can also see some verification of my view in looking at old movies (No, Big Tobacco did NOT have some sort of Big Brother control over all of cinemadom back in the 19teens through thirties, though they may have had at least some degree of influence from the 40s onward.) or even simply reading old novels: how often do you encounter characters complaining about smoke? Very, VERY rarely outside of a few extraordinarily smoky circumstances where the author wanted to emphasize a "depraved" moral view of a place. The earliest modern instance I know of where someone really complained in print about smoke was an article I used as an example in "Brains," an article in the Christian Science Monitor about an activist who complained loudly about the constant assault of smoke on his trip to New York -- on the train, at the train station, in the cab, and in the hotel lobby. Heh, the funny side to that tale though was how overjoyed the writer was at the "fresh, clean, smoke-free air" of his hotel room. Anyone old enough to remember 1964 would know perfectly well that virtually every hotel room in the city had been smoked in thousands of times over and would also have been surrounded by rooms with smoking going on in them. And yet, today, a single smoker in a building is said to be destroying its habitability for all around!And Isaac Asimov, famed science writer of the 1950s/60s and himself a moderate though quiet Antismoker, knew that the attitude/concern was so rare that he could write a story around the basis of a man who was obviously mentally disturbed -- because the man objected so strongly to anyone smoking in his home! That single clue later proved vital in the discovery that the man was a murderer and had killed his own child through accidentally starting a house fire with his cigarette!So, despite the pictures drawn today, and despite my being annoyed sometimes as a kid, it wasn't usually quite the horror show some folks like to picture it as.- MJM
Are police officers allowed to smoke cigarettes? Can they smoke in their patrol vehicles? Are there regulations on smoking as a police officer?
Some agencies ban smoking due to health insurance coverages. Some agencies allow smoking but require that you do it out of private view.I work for an department that allows smoking out of private (civilian) view; we do have designated smoking areas outside of our stations that are out of view. Smoking in the patrol car is a no-go. Most agencies do not issue personal patrol cars,so you end up sharing patrol cars with other officers that work opposite shifts.As a young and dumb officer, I used to smoke in my patrol car with my partner. We’d do our best to clean the car after our shift out of consideration for the other guys. Working at night made smoking out and about easier but there was always the fear that we’d get our butts handed to us if we were caught.I can happily say that I quit smoking 5 years ago. I don't judge the other guys that do; the job is stressful and we see things that we have to process and move on to the next call. It sounds ridiculous, but that 5 minute smoke break can really help during those times.I always say if you do smoke, be discreet. Carry mints or gum and hand sanitizer (a miracle for removing the smell on you and your clothes). And don't let your smoking screw up your tactics (you always have to keep the “gun hand” free.