[Just another Joe]

OH, MY, look at this.

But, But, It's for the CHILDREN!

[Just another Joe]

You have GOT to see this.
The hypocrisy is UNBELIEVABLE!

[maxwell]

BWAHAHA... Well I ain't worried about it... I'm long past 21...

[mamelukesabre]

I just don't even care anymore. Nothing in california surprises me. They could outlaw gasoline and gunpowder in california for all I care. I won't be going there any time soon.

[metesky]

Pretty simple, Joe. There's no money in it for them.

[nothingnew]

Big......

PUFF!

...and these nazis can puke it out their fargin' pie-holes.

FMCDHI got enough smoke in my lungs right now from these arsehole green mf'ers with their freekin' no hands ideas about OUR forests...cough cough cough.....I never coughed so much...

[concerned about politics]

"In another year," said Lisa Rea of the American Heart Association, "maybe we would have gotten excited about" raising the legal smoking age to 21. "But it's not something that we can say is high on our priority list. It just isn't. The budget is everything this year."

Screw the kids! Let 'em die! We want that tax money, money, money !!!
Smoke children, smoke!

[3AngelaD]

How about, say, age 43? But only if you own an oboe-playing chicken.

[biblewonk]

Is 18 years considered adult or not?

[nothingnew]

"The window of danger with alcohol is four to six hours after a teen-ager has been drinking. As physicians we know that the window of danger with tobacco is four to six decades."

in the immortal words of Frank Zappa..."A true Zen saying".

I'll clean my own windows doc, thanks very much.

Beam me up Smokey, there's no intelligent people who run this pissant government.....

FMCDH

[TheGrimReaper]

Every pound of domestically-grown tobacco generates nearly $100 in state/federal taxes.
The hypocrites aren't about to close a valve on their cash pipeline.
BTW, they can all go to Hell, too.

[WindMinstrel]

My question is why 21? Why not 30? Putting the smoking (or drinking) age to 30 should certainly cut down on the number of young people who smoke/drink.

Oh, wait, how 'bout 50? Or 80?

[SheLion]

It's awfully hard to get an 18 year-old to sign up and go fight for our Country, yet isn't old enough to smoke.

18 is the legal age for marriage, military, 3.5 beer, and they already have a driver's license by the time they are 16. Plus, at 18, they can go to a quick school for 18-wheelers and if they pass that test, they can be driving an 18-wheeler across the country. But not old enough to smoke? I don't think so. This is asinine.

[Madame Dufarge]

As physicians we know that the window of danger with tobacco is four to six decades."

Will you, please?

Life has a window of danger from birth to whenever.

But hey - no health neurotics, no ceaseless trips to the physician.

[Eastbound]

" But state data show that young adults have proven to be the toughest group to reach."

Sounds like an historical truism. This age group is in the throes of establishing their identities and expressing their individuality in the adult world for the first time. Not only do they question the authority of force, they resent it and will rebel against it. I think humans were born with an encoded message etched deep into their psyches which comes to the fore during transition to adulthood. If it could be put into words, It would probably sound like, "I am not a sheep!"

[jodorowsky]

As physicians we know that the window of danger with tobacco is four to six decades.

Bwahahaha! You can almost dig into the stupidity like soft clay.

Anyone else remember the Mr Show bit about Imminent Death Syndrome?

[altair]

Koretz's measure would be phased in so that it would not affect those 18 and older who now smoke.

That's a very strange statement.