U.S. Raises Age To 21 To Purchase Cigarettes

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.

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.

Complete nonsense. The feds have no power to do that; it's up to the states individually what they want to do.

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....