Way to be stupid, McTurtle.
Shouldn’t be federal priority to manage age issues for anything....should be left entirely to each state to view/manage.
But I will say this, if he wanted to do some age ‘game’....go after the credit card companies and mandate that no one under the age of 21 can be given a card unless fully employed (40 hours per week).
Why not just wrap this up and simply ban tobacco? If it is as dangerous as established and observable by family members dying amongst us then it should be simply and completely banned.
That won’t change a great deal if the under 21’s are determined to use tobacco. It’s so much easier these days to use tobacco than a decade or two ago. the E-Cig comes in many different forms. 6th and 7th grade school kids will at times use an e-cig right in the classroom and remain undetected because the vapor dissipates so quickly.
Look up one of the most popular brands called Juul.
It comes in all kinds of ‘flavors’ and aromas.
There doesn’t have to be a big blue cloud of curling ‘smoke’ if you don’t want to produce one. Between e-cigs and cell phones everywhere you look, I don’t see how teachers deal with it. Maybe they just don’t react to it anymore. Student’s have always loved sneaking some forbidden activity right under their teacher’s noses.
I understand all the bitching at Mitch, but maybe we are looking at this in the wrong light. Could he be trying to focus on raising the smoking age to 21, in order to counter the dems thoughts on lowering the voting age to 16. The more “adult” things that are tied to the 21 age mark, wouldn’t that make it harder to lower the age to vote? Just my 2 cents, and probably way off base. Just throwing it out there.
Why does this need to be federal legislation again? Can states not decide their own legal smoking ages?
this is utter silliness.
And lower voting age to 16 too.
Does Cocaine Mitch have a primary challenger?
I hate all these “Feel Good” age restrictions on everything.
I joined the Navy in 1962 at the age of 16 and became part of the Cuban Missile Blockade. I couldn’t smoke or drink or vote, although I did own a Winchester 22LR firearm that I purchased when I was 13 so that I could take gun safety and marksmanship in school.
I’d go on Liberty with my shipmates when we were in port, but I couldn’t order a beer.
In my opinion, if you are old enough to defend you country, then you should have all the rights of a citizen.
Not a federal question.
Though if you are old enough to vote or be sent to war, you can buy smokes.
Ain’t these turds in DC have anything better to do? Maybe like secure our EFFIN Border for starters. No, they have to attack our liberties.
Q ought to go pedal to the medal, and expose, imprison, and execute ALL of them, rather than fighting a losing battle of attrition in the shadows.
Let’s raise the age of playing in contact sports to 21.
That's right....inject nicotine straight into your system...and do it smoke free.
What a lot of cr**. Same MO as Opioids.
Will this include POT...it makes SMOKE too.
Twenty-two trillion dollars in debt and an invasion at our southern border and Cocaine Mitch is focused on taking action on teen smoking.
This is why nothing meaningful gets done on our real problems. Somewhere in this absurdity Mitch is getting a payoff.