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Should you smoke in your car? Smoking in your privately owned vehicle should be a matter of personal choice. Smoking in your own car effects no one else but yourself. Breathing the noxious
fumes produced by cigarette smoke is also a matter of personal choice. People should have the legal right to choose to engage in cigarette smoking in their own car, their home or backyard.

The rights of nonsmokers have become a priority in our society. This is due to the negative effects of second hand smoke on nonsmokers. If cigarette smokers are not effecting others with the smoke from their cigarettes they should have the right to enjoy their cigarettes in private vehicles, homes and properties.

Banning cigarette smoking in private cars or homes is overstepping bounds. When are smokers rights being violated? Cigarette smoking may be a health hazard to others only when the cigarette smoke is actually effecting them. When in a public place, restaurants, bars or businesses the effects of cigarette smoke on third party nonsmokers is obvious. The effects on nonsmokers from cigarette smoking is and should remain an individuals personal choice. Considerate smokers will ask passengers first if they mind if he or she smokes in their own car while giving them a ride.

Protection, provided by law, should be given to nonsmokers. The rights of smokers to smoke on or in their own property should be protected as well. Banning cigarette smoking in private homes or cars is tantamount to tyranny. Cigarette smokers pay taxes too. Advocates for nonsmoking laws who support laws that take basic civil rights away from smokers are not acting out of concern for the health of nonsmokers since cigarette smoking in privately owned vehicles does not effect nonsmokers.

Smokers agree with many of the ban on smoking where cigarette smoke can effect the general health and welfare of nonsmokers. Smokers do not support the infringement on their rights to make personal choices regarding their decision to smoke in places where second hand smoke does not effect others. A privately owned vehicle is not a public place. Smokers should be allowed to smoke in them without being fined, arrested or harassed by law enforcement.

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