If you wanted to really screw up teen smoking...then raise the tax on each pack to $10, and affix some sticker to each pack....where a tax-payer could submit his yearly tax return with a sheet showing he bought 300 packs of smokes and he’d get all of his $10 tax payments back. The kid who was under twenty-one would get nothing back. Smoking by teens would drop like a rock.
High New York cigarette taxes lead to selling "loosies" (individual cigarettes sold by entrepreneurs on the street).
Cigarette taxes were bad enough 25 years ago to help me quit smoking. (The King may well have the last laugh, because I may be around longer, and paying even more taxes.)
Just another stupid feel-good liberal law, IMO. If you are old enough to enlist in the military without a parent's consent, you should be old enough to vote, buy cigarettes ... and buy a pistol or a bottle of alcohol, too!