U.S. Raises Age To 21 To Purchase Cigarettes

I think cigs are nasty..but that being said, if 18 yo's are old enough to be sent to war, they are old enough to buy booze and cigs

yes..

and why is the age of consent so low..

is getting knocked up just something easy to deal with?

I guess in a world where abortion is normal.

not to mention you can cut off your nads or tits when you're 10, makes a lot of sense huh?

Totally agree.

I've never smoked, but the random application of age-laws is insane in this country.

Most of that scenario is pure politics.

.. but you can't buy a cigarette...

Crazy.

But you can have your dick and balls filleted and turned inside out at age 8?

Last Edited by GrandMaster_B on 12/19/2019 03:15 PM

Agreed.

Just opened up more customers for the blackmarket sales.

They just lost a shitload in taxes.

Democrats are stupid. Isn't that what the democrats want? Everything taxed and all of your money? Contradiction number 8,666,666.

Not that smoking is healthy, I get it, but damn.

So, in SanFran, you can't smoke until 21, but you can cook Meth out in open and shit in the street at 18, right?

Did we win the Cold War or not?

Srry, I'm ranting.

Good raise it to 50

Yet 18 year olds can still poison the rest of us with their votes.

Yes, I think that once you are a "legal" adult, there should be no more age restrictions placed on you.

Doesnt matter.

If they want universal death care...they should have lowered the age to 12.

LOL just like weed they will get them on the streets.

Let me see the law on .gov

Tobacco makes you less susceptible to mind control and hypnosis.

You can go into the military at 18, they teach you to shoot a rifle and kill people but now you have to be 21 to buy or smoke a cigarette? duh!

While "Republicans" continue to be distracted by the Orange King, Congress is busy usurping crap loads of 10th Amendment issues like smoking age. Orange King is the distraction that Democrats could have ever asked for. It's almost like Orange King spent his entire life as a NYC liberal before running for President as a Republican! Oh, wait....

I would normally agree with you, but as long as taxpayer dollars are going to pay for Medicaid and Obamacare, then good. Even private plans have to recoup the money paid out for treating smokers, so they raise everyone's premiums. I don't need to pay for the damage caused by other people's bad habits.

As long as I have to pay, I don't give a fuck if they raise the age to 75. If I don't have to pay for you, then knock yourself out, go chain smoke a whole carton for all I care.

True. But mostly liberals/leftwingers haven't been quite so prim and proper when it comes to raising topics in front of youngsters about adult sexuality-homosexuality-trannieism, and the negatives of more a la-de-dah attitude regarding dope and other intoxicants.

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True, nicotine is a cognitive enhancer, stress-reducer, and also neutralizes the effect of fluoride on the brain.

I guess they don't want college-age Americans smoking since universities are heavy-duty brainwashing centers.

anyone who says this is a good thing is beyond an idiot. the initial smoking bans started a lot of this statist bs and it's all been a downward spiral from there. live your fkn life and stop being a busy-body.

if it was just because it was a horrible danger they'd be passing them out in kindergarten and teaching kids how to deep lung a Newport.

talk to a smoker about politics and you'll see why they want it banned.

Cigarettes cause emphysema, not a fun way to die.

It really is a decent nootropic, it's not so bad when you are vape nicotine, nothing like the 400+ chemicals in tobacco you are burning.

That's what's so strange about the FDA going against vaping, it's really not nearly as addictive, and proven by scientists to be 95% safer than tobacco.

How is this even close to a 10th amendment issue? Unless you live in maybe Virginia or North Carolina those cigarettes cross state lines which automatically make it an interstate commerce issue. 10th amendment doesn't apply because Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the US Constitution gives congress the ability to regulate that trade.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

because nicotine is a very powerful antiviral agent for one reason and for another it generally makes it's user more perceptive. It's not because it is bad for kids, if they cared about their heath they wouldn't be pushing homosexuality on them when one out of five f gs has the aids virus.