Posted on 05/20/2019 12:40:29 PM PDT by SMGFan
Sens. Mitch McConnell and Tim Kaine plan to introduce a bill Monday that would raise the federal minimum age to buy tobacco to 21 in hopes of curbing what regulators are calling an epidemic of teen vaping.
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Effigy nanny state
Stupid.
Sorry your best friend got his head blown off in our stupid unwinnable war but hey no cigarettes for you
And smoke it in a hotel room in a no smoking hotel
McConnell Introduces Bipartisan Bill Raising Smoking Age to 21
Nanny State PING!
That's always been my reason. With the sole exception of Donald Trump.
No! For marijuana and cigars, they can be much younger....
Why on earth would there even BE a feral smoking age??
I smoked for over 50 years until one day out of the blue I had a stroke while watching TV.
My head started spinning and I tried to talk but there were no words, just jumbled sounds came out.
I was scared to death. I made it to the hospital and after 3 weeks I was back home, much worse for the wear.
Those 3 weeks were enough time to do something I didn’t think I could ever do...quit smoking.
While in rehab I still had the urge to smoke but they weren’t going to let me so I put it out of my mind.
The 3 weeks were enough to clean the nicotine out of my system to have the chance beat the urge to smoke.
I started smoking in grade school when cigarettes were 20 cents a pack for camel or lucky, and you could buy them everywhere with no questions about who they were for.
I wish there was a enforced law making it 21 to smoke back then. If you really had to be 21 and prove it, nobody would be dumb enough to start at that age.
21 is the new 12.
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