U.S. Raises Age To 21 To Purchase Cigarettes

you have to die of something, sooner or later.
honestly of the people ive known who died of lung disease, the majority never smoked.

No one can honestly say that vaping is 95% healthier than smoking tobacco with any amount of certainty. Vaping has only really been around for less than 15 years, so no one has a clue what the long term effects of it might be because there's no one around that has been vaping for 25+ years to study.

Agreed. I didn't even know the smoking age had been raised to 18. The last I remembered, it was 16. I guess I've been out of the USA for too long.

It used to be that at age 16, you could smoke, drive, and get a job. At 18, you could get married, join the military, vote, live on your own, enter into contracts, etc.

I'm even old enough to remember when the individual states each had their own drinking age. For most of them, it was 18. In my state, you could buy wine and beer at 18, but had to be 21 to buy hard liquor.

In the '80s, the Fed changed the drinking age to 21 in all the states, and a lot of people thought it was really stupid since you became a legal adult at 18.

The reasoning was because there were a handful of states that insisted on having a drinking age of 21, then they complained that their 18-20 year olds were crossing state lines to party in the "sin states" and then dying in drunken car accidents on the way home. Instead of lowering their own drinking age, they lobbied to have the age raised in the neighboring states.

Ban driving under 21
Ban voting under 21
Ban speaking under 21
Ban travel under 21
Ban constitution under 21
Ban all things under 21
except:
Go to war and die at 18

What the fuck.

it has nothing to do with health...it's really popular with the younger generation and we can't have that...must control the youth.

But yet we want to allow 16 year olds to vote?

It went from 16 to 18 about 12 years ago in England

I have no problem with 21.. in fact it makes sense because people are in school longer now, get their first full time job later in life, marry later, live longer..

so why are we going the other age eg. younger on all of the above?

makes no sense to me?

and war is usually based on need for bodies, probably the draft should start at 21 and move down if necessary.

They need to raise the voting age to 21 as well as the age to join the military.

NEVER forget that Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the cult of pedophiles want to change the legal age of consent to 13.... fuckin sickos.

It's actually a natural MAOI inhibitor.

Honestly that is once again another example of national government (federal) overreach...

Seems there's something good about smoking when corrupt, perverted big brother bans it everywhere, even with enormous tax on it.

They only promote and allow what's bad and immoral, including the ignorance of common core.

Something we're not being told when they're overreaching again, and just won't STFU about smoking because they certainly DGAF about abortions and poverty, but they do if people smoke and where? Yeah OK

yeah it's a little line of Pectin the cigarette is rolled in at the facotry.

I only smoked American Spirits, and even then, rolled me own tobaccy

I thought the left were the Commies?

I think we should raise the age of military enlistees to 30 years old so they can make an informed decision after they see what we are really fighting for.

The Communists running the government would never go for that. Got to get them when they are young and dumb.

The tax payers are also paying for the military and their health care, we should up the age to 75 to join the military also.

Somebody is getting suicided by the tobacco companies.

Last Edited by Katipo on 12/19/2019 06:49 PM

Trump can do lots of things.
He mainly does stuff that helps
his zooish globalist buddies though

America, land of the free?

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I'll agree with you if you include voting.

done brah.. not a problem.

I was 17 when I joined the Navy. While in school, I asked shipmates to buy cigarettes for me. This is fucking retarded.

Honestly, I agree with everything you said. I would just like to emphasise that back in the day there were smoking areas in high schools.
This is why there is no ID requirement to purchase drugs down the street. And no hours of business. There are reasons why kids today choose to smoke weed and do other things. It may be illegal. But it may be for the best when it comes to options.
The fact you can join the Military and potentially be killed for your country but are restricted to purchase alcohol or tobacco is absolutely insane. Resolution is to make everything equal across the board.
Start with drivers license's then move on to liquor and drafting and voting and smoking. This is the day and age of universal rules of law.
Lets the Demo's start the partition and see how partisan this country really is.

Exactly. This.^^^

Good!