Ann Arbor Council Defies State Law, Bans Cigarette Sales to Adults Age 18 to 20

Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 8/24/2016 | Derek Draplin

[Blood of Tyrants]

If they really cared, they would ban the sale and use inside their jurisdiction. But then they would lose all that tax money.

[Smittie]

I wonder if all these bans on cigs have increased the usage rates of other drugs? Some people just seem prone to addictions and maybe if addicted to cigs they wouldn't go on to other drugs...

I don't smoke but if someone wants to do that in their own home that's their business.

[jonrick46]

State lawz? What state lawz? We ain’t following no state lawz. State law is for the little people. We are the masterz and they are the dog house people. They all need to wear dog collerz. That’s the ticket!

[Paladin2]

Peoples’ Republics are free to take away any personal freedom of their subjects that they desire.

[DouglasKC]

I’ll bet they’re OK with eighteen year old smoking pot though...

[nascarnation]

It’s sort of like NYC....

Here’s your plan B birth control pill kid, just don’t wash it down with a large soda or smoke a cig after copulating.

[just me]

One of Michigan’s biggest liberal city. So much for freedom..

[NEMDF]

Just making up their own new laws as they go along, it seems. Once 0bama set the precedent, who knows how far this will go?

[grania]

This is insane!! In most of the country, heroin is killing a lot of young adults. The issue is in many cases that doctors got them hooked on pain killers. Wouldn't it make more sense if these people were smoking tobacco products instead? It gives them time to sort through their issues, before tobacco's effects aren't reversible.

I smoked from my early teens until I was in my mid-50s. Finally decided for medical and expense reasons to quit. I'm not saying it's a good thing. I am saying that those of us who smoked are better off than the drug-addled zombies that so many of our youth are today.

[Calvin Locke]

... And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things ...

[antidisestablishment]

Federalism is a good idea. It’s their city. It’s stupid, but it should be legal.

Many states and counties down South still have blue laws. The stores just outside city limits should support it whole-heartedly.

[relictele]

Kai Petainen, an Ann Arbor resident who attended the city council meeting, said he recently went to a funeral of a 23-year-old who died from a drug overdose. That friend used tobacco as a gateway drug, he said.

“It's a funeral of a person who died at only 23 and it was from an overdose. That person began using tobacco at a young age, and eventually they were using other drugs as well,” he said. “Tobacco use can lead to other drugs and it can and does destroy lives.”

What a staggering leap of illogic as well as another dolt who thinks government is daddy.

Here's a pic of Kai.

No, I am not shocked in the least by his appearance. Yes, I fully expected him to look like this.

Are they keeping these people in some sort of warehouse? So tired of these pillow biters.

[Lazamataz]

Well HELL!

If cities can defiantly disobey state law, seems like they can disobey federal law, too!

Cannot wait to be the mayor of the first city to reinstate slavery!

[Paladin2]

Uh, there’s than plenty-o Tax Slavery for the productive.

[Paladin2]

Uh, there’s MORE than plenty-o Tax Slavery for the productive.

[Eccl 10:2]

The ban is to make them more valuable to the teens so that when the Union members come around on registration drives and on Election Day, the teens can more easily bribed to vote for the “correct” party.

[Steven Scharf]

Portland Maine beat them by 2 months passed a bill to require 21 to purchase in July.

[VRWC For Truth]

Faggot alert! ...

[fuzzylogic]

Of course the next logical step is to ban smoking for anybody because they know what is in everyone’s best interests, people can’t be trusted. Who cares if you’re denying people personal liberty!!! ;p

At the uni football games they’ve banned smoking outside the stadium (inside the gates) and literally have paid smoking nazi’s to walk around “policing” it. What I found funny is that the smokers band together, form a wall and hide smokers from them, then rotate. It is quite the team building and bringing-together exercise!!!! It’s a great example of the problem with progressives, they think they can impose their will and people won’t change their behavior. Idiots.