Posted on 01/17/2017 7:08:00 AM PST by rktman
Raising the minimum legal age to buy products like cigarettes and chewing tobacco has been the goal of Texas Democrats for at least a decade. But with Republicans decrying the effort as an infringement on personal liberty that could cost the state millions of dollars in lost tax revenue, the wish went up in smoke every time it was proposed.
Five times, Uresti has tried to convince fellow lawmakers that hiking the smoking age will save lives and reduce the state’s health care costs in the long term. He started small in 2007, proposing Texas raise the tobacco purchase age to 19. He failed.
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>>Finally a law that will keep those under 21 from smoking or chewin’ tabaccy. Yeah, that’ll work just like gun free zone signs.<<
Yeah, this is just dumb on many (all) fronts.
If they’re old enough to vote Democrat they’re old enough to make other foolish life decisions.
Just another excuse to put young black men in prison.
I want one of these lawmakers to sit down with an active-duty marine who has seen combat, and smokes and tell him he wants to make his vice illegal. The puke politicians need to pass laws to protect Americans from real dangers like illegal immigrant violence, unsafe prescription medicines, predatory use of eminent domain, legal protections for the average citizen against predatory municipalities and corporations, illegal alien resettlement programs, antisocial business regulations, and predatory taxation.
Whoever is pushing this bill needs a heaping helping of boot salad.
When I was very little, my mom would pump gas, and send me inside the station to pay and buy cigarettes.
Those days are long gone.
Oh sure, it's the personal liberty part they're concerned about.
Texas does a lot of good liberty, but on substances — tobacco included — they are a nightmare.
Intentionally inhaling smoke of any kind is the stupidest and most self-destructive behaviors. When the stuff contains addictive chemicals that make it hard to stop, legal remedies seem attractive, but haven’t worked nearly as well as education and persuasion.
Before that, they pumped it for you at service stations.
I would be in favor of increasing the voting age back up to 21.
If your old enough to sign yourself over to the military and old enough to be prosecuted as an adult...smoke ...drink and stand up to this BS rule....when you cant sign up to the service or be prosecuted as an adult until your twenty one then you can impose this crap...but not a second before.
I roll my own with tobacco that is just that...tobacco , no additives that do add to many more complex carcinogens I agree there....but we would not even exist as a republic were it not for the tobacco leaf...Virginia plantation ring a bell?
The same people want to legalize pot.
In response to “most distructive habit”...I would put injecting heroin or doing Meth way above tobacco....
“When I was very little, my mom would pump gas, and send me inside the station to pay and buy cigarettes.
Those days are long gone.”
When gas was 27 cents/gal, a coca cola was a nickel and a pack of Raleighs was 25 cents.
Gone and nearly forgotten.
As much as I absolutely hate smoking, I think this would be a stupid law. It’s anti-freedom. It’s Nanny State feel-good legislation that will probably cost more to enforce than not. It doesn’t seem to square up with voting or serving your country at 18.
I’ve lost loved ones to lung cancer. It’s a rotten way to go. Hope everyone would quit, but don’t believe legislation is the way to make it happen.
I’ve never in my life had full service at a gas station (born in 1970). Once I was on the NJ turnpike and they actually advertised self serve and full serve. I decided to pump my own gas...but they charged me for full service...some nonsense about all gas being full service after dark, even though they had nobody around to pump it.
That was my introduction to New Jersey.
I'd prefer to see a law preventing democRats from breeding.
Let the spawn of the libs smoke and drink at age 3.
I’m not quite that old...and the brand was always the same: Winstons.
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