Posted on 05/05/2016 11:11:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday enacted California’s most significant new tobacco regulations in decades, signing laws that will place tight restrictions on use of the increasingly popular e-cigarette and make California the second state to raise its smoking age to 21.
Brown signed five closely watched bills, which will also expand smoking restrictions in the workplace and on school properties. California now joins jurisdictions like Hawaii, New York City and San Francisco that have bumped the tobacco-buying age to 21 in an effort to block young people’s route to obtaining tobacco.
But Brown vetoed one measure that would have allowed cities and counties to impose local taxes on tobacco products.
“Although California has one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation,” he wrote in his veto message, “I am reluctant to approve this measure in view of all the taxes being proposed for the 2016 ballot.”
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I’d like a rule which recognizes that states are free to raise the smoking or drinking age to whatever age they would like. But the voting age automatically goes up with it.
Put a $15 minimum wage tax on cigarettes.
Power! Power!Power and more Power to the oligarchs!
And liberals want to reduce the age of consent for sexual activity.
California Uber Alles.
The same idiots saying “legalize marijuana!” think cigarettes are evil.
And yet many smokers of tobacco are able to be gainfully employed, versus the stereotypical marijuana user.
useless stoner = probable Democrat voter.
What's so hard to understand?
I say treat cigarettes and eVape the same. At some point just ban them and be done with it. (Don’t bother flaming me as I don’t care—never smoked and my dad died from it last year.). I do absolutely have a problem with the age, though. At 18 you can vote, join the military, and be drafted. Has always seemed wrong that you instead had to be 21 for drink and such. (I turned 18 as they drinking age changed in the 70s and this has always irked me. If I was responsible enough to join the military, I should be okay to do anything Constitutionally legal. Being 35 to run for president is one obvious exception.)
So much for the right to choose.
Can someone under 21 smoke “medical” marijuana legally?
Everyone who wants one has a dope card.
Lets see, a no nothing, inexperienced ignorant 16 year old can drive a 5,000 pound machine at 70mph, but they’re not allowed to buy tobacco?
GRIN
Good for the black market business.
“I’d like a rule which recognizes that states are free to raise the smoking or drinking age to whatever age they would like. But the voting age automatically goes up with it.”
That would violate the 26th Amendment.
Does that include weed?
Silly Rabbit, Age laws didn’t stop me from smoking starting at age 13. This law will do NOTHING!
When my step daughter returned from her first tour of duty in Germany where she was allowed to drink as much beer as she wanted she was a bit upset that she “could vote and die for her country but could not drink a beer”. Now she would not be able to smoke a cig. What a country!
The leftist Puritans are at it again. What's next - banning booze? Oh - wait ....
I was stationed in San Diego when the drinking age went up to 21. The navy kept the drinking age at 18 on base to keep the young sailors from going to Mexico to drink. We went anyway.
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