According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2013), it is estimated that 42.1 million people in the United States smoke cigarettes. Research the effects smoking and secondhand smoke has on an adult’s, on a child’s, and on an unborn fetus’s respiratory system and health.

A few states have implemented laws that make it illegal to smoke in the car when there is a child within the car. Should this become a federal law where it is enforced in all states? What about making it illegal for a pregnant mother to smoke? Or parents smoking in a house with children, should this be illegal too? How far should lawmakers go with the creation of anti-smoking laws for the protection of the unborn, infants and children to an individual’s personal freedom?