The Virginia Smoking Ban Blog

Vehicular smoking ban: West Virginia slipping down the slope

In addition to a comprehensive indoor smoking ban recently enacted, a vehicular smoking ban has been passed by West Virginia’s paternalistic assembly.

The issue raised here is this: every parent should protect their child from harm as best they can, but is it within our government’s rights to tell them how and what they should be protecting them from? Is there a precedent in which our government has the mandate or right to supersede a child’s own mother and father as the paternal guardian of that child?

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