[Just another Joe]

Is a person an adult at age 18?
Depends on who you ask.
The military says yes, the politicians (during an election year) say yes, the people who make the rules for alchohol say no, and the people who make the rules for tobacco are trying to say no.

[walden]

True.

I am tremendously opposed to infantilizing older teens-- it just creates resentment at the idiocy of adult society. And, when we push them out of adult culture, they just go create their own culture. I have two high school aged daughters, and it is MUCH easier for them to buy Ecstasy & other club drugs, marijuana and lsd, than it is to get cigarettes and beer. So far, thank God, my daughters have stayed away from that, but I make my views strongly known to them.

In fact, when we sit down together and have a beer and a smoke, I tell them exactly how I feel.