From my attempts to find an answer on line, It appears even pre teens, elementary school age children are not prohibited from smoking. They cannot purchase them, "But smoke 'em if you got 'em" . But why? Why illegal for under age to purchase but not smoke in public. Except for recent laws against smoking in buildings, parks, open air stadiums etc.
This is insanity. People don’t smoke a few cigarettes and go out and commit mass murders. If instead of a few cigarettes, a youngster resorts to mind-altering meds (legal and illegal), some will.
I remember when smoking, and voting age was 21
I remember when there was no in between 'teenage' years ... you were a kid or a man
No more social experimenters in our politics
If y'got the money, pay for it
If you can, do
If you know, speak up
If you wanted to really screw up teen smoking...then raise the tax on each pack to $10, and affix some sticker to each pack....where a tax-payer could submit his yearly tax return with a sheet showing he bought 300 packs of smokes and he’d get all of his $10 tax payments back. The kid who was under twenty-one would get nothing back. Smoking by teens would drop like a rock.
Ban homosexuality. It causes HIV and a host of other STDs. Why isn’t homosexuality treated as a public health issue?
OK to smoke dope from the lunatics and nuts who run that state though.
I will state what I always have...if an 18 year old can sign his / her life over to the federal government for military service AND vote in elections they can smoke and drink as much as they want. Explain to me how (in any way) I’m wrong. These morons allowed us to have a smoking area while I went to school in the socialist state known as Massachusetts...
Let’s raise the drinking age to 21 to stop teenage drinking. Wait...........
How can people afford to smoke?
This is why we have a tenth amendment. Also why I didn’t have a Constitutional problem with the much maligned “Romneycare”.
The policy itself may be a disaster, but that would be for the people of the STATE to determine, not a stinking bureaucracy in D.C.
Federalism, as founded by our forefathers, works.
So the cultural heirs to the Puritans are on the march. Forward Progressives!
It’s about control. Constantly letting the unwashed masses know that they do not control their lives. The gummit does.
“Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, men!”
“But, Sarge, I’m from Massachusetts”
Yeah, right.
They could raise it to 100.
Smoking is stupid.
So an 18 year old is adult enough for everything you can imagine (including being killed overseas in the army), they just cant drink or smoke?
If you are too young to drink and smoke, then you’re too young to vote or be drafted.
Physiologically speaking, children’s brains are “flexible” and adaptive to both healthy, unhealthy and addictive chemicals, the younger they are, the more flexible. This declines as they get older until their brain is fully mature, anywhere from 19-25 years old.
In practical terms this means children should not be given unhealthy or addictive chemicals before their brains are mature. This includes nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, marijuana, narcotics, ADHD drugs, tranquilizers, depressants and stimulants, and antidepressants. And this list can be enlarged to include many other substances.
Even giving these chemicals to children for medically necessary reasons should be done guardedly, and then only if their clinical benefits strongly outweigh their drawbacks. Which pretty well knocks out the ADHD drugs except for a tiny number of children.
Importantly, it has been discovered that when children consume addictive substances, it not only makes it easier for them to become dependent in the future, but dependent on *other* addictive drugs and behaviors as well. *And* it makes it harder for them to quit these drugs as well.
That is, if you can become an adult without consuming addictive substances, it is much harder to get addicted, and much easier to quit.
LOL! I thought you already had to be 21 to buy cigarettes and alcohol and that the law was working out really well. Politicians are idiots. The dumbest among us.
“So 18 will be too young to smoke but old enough to vote Democrat. Do I have it right?”