The police department posted a photo of the ticket on Twitter, writing: “Protect your children and keep $100 in your pocket! #NoSmoking #WeAreWatching.”
Virginia police can issue the $100 fine to anyone smoking in a car with a child under 8 years of age, according to WAVY-TV. However, it constitutes as a secondary offense, meaning the driver has to be pulled over for a separate traffic violation first.
The law went into effect in July of 2016. Since then, the Virginia Beach Police Department has issued roughly 23 tickets of this kind, WAVY-TV reported.
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13 comments:
Big Brother.
Are microphones in cars next, to make sure you are not cursing in front of the kids?
I grew up around adults smoking. I am a perfectly healthy adult. Just another excuse to charge $100 because no one will defend the parent smoking with their kid.
so i cant do what i want in my own car?
maybe if it was a joint it would be ok
Smokers are entitled people. They want to spew their filth into the air, throw their butts onto the road ways, rivers , ponds , oceans pollute their own lungs and everyone else. $100 fine is not nearly enough when you have a child in a car that has no choice in the situation.
Yes ...another entitlement...smokers .
Any remember when tobacco was the cash crop in MD/VA? It was still thriving in the 80's in southern MD!!!! Amazing how times have changed!
GOOD I am glad bc you IDIIT Rednecks don't realize kids can't say NO to u AHOLES.
Make it a $500 fine.
Most of the parents of baby boomers would be in jail.
legalize pot, criminalize tobacco.
Mr Bob
I am 78 YOA and was raised in a cloud of smoke from my fathers Camel's, along with smoke from our friends. A lot of people smoked at that time. Dad lived a productive life until age 96 when he passed. I am not glorifying it, I stopped twenty years ago.
Sometimes you have people die young that never has a smoke.
The government's job is to protect us from enemies, not our own harm. That would be our choice, good or bad.
Why does the state get rewarded for you doing harm to yourself or your own child. Looks like we are headed more and more to be a complete police StATE. You people need to pay strict attention on were this Country is head especially with a Dictator at the head of this Country. Stick around and you are going to see some things. He doesn't love Putin for no reason He likes him because of his thinking and control tactics.
8:16 You are so damn obtuse!!!! Weed is illegal in VA still...
I grew up around a father who smoked Camel shorts like a chimney, in the house, in the car, it didn't matter. Grandma used to shake her head when we kids got to her house smelling like ashtrays. Two of the three of us had childhood asthma that caused permanent lung capacity damage.
Protect children for parents who can't or won't.
If you don't want people to smoke, stop producing them. If you don't want butts on the ground, stop putting them on cigs. If you don't like people enjoying themselves and their rights, move to a country that doesn't have any.
Stop demonizing people for doing things you don't agree with. I know that will give you fewer things to complain about but you can find another hobby.
Maybe changing some of this rainwater to wine?
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