Why is there a Federal smoking age?
See what they have done in the U.K.
Children 2 to 7 smoke in Indonesia in this 2011 story
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/age-children-smoking-indonesia/story?id=14464140
From Age 2 to 7: Why Are Children Smoking in Indonesia?
Also, my first thought.
Why do we even have states anymore? The Nanny government in Washington has all covered.
Get the F out of here government!
Its good to see Mitch doing the really important work of the Senate.....
Because Congress won't rest until everything is a federal offenses, and there are no more state offenses.
Because they can.
Because the constitution doesn't enumerate this in any legislative power, so by golly, they have to prove their worth by adding more unconstitutional edict - and the [federal] courts will encourage them to reach even further.