Posted on 05/05/2016 11:11:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday enacted Californias most significant new tobacco regulations in decades, signing laws that will place tight restrictions on use of the increasingly popular e-cigarette and make California the second state to raise its smoking age to 21.
Brown signed five closely watched bills, which will also expand smoking restrictions in the workplace and on school properties. California now joins jurisdictions like Hawaii, New York City and San Francisco that have bumped the tobacco-buying age to 21 in an effort to block young peoples route to obtaining tobacco.
But Brown vetoed one measure that would have allowed cities and counties to impose local taxes on tobacco products.
Although California has one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation, he wrote in his veto message, I am reluctant to approve this measure in view of all the taxes being proposed for the 2016 ballot.
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Make it illegal. That will do it!
You forgot illegal alien in your description...
But Brown vetoed one measure that would have allowed cities and counties to impose local taxes on tobacco products. "Although California has one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation... I am reluctant to approve this measure in view of all the taxes being proposed for the 2016 ballot."
You’re not going to care if ya go under the wheels.
So...
In response, all the current smokers in California, between the ages of 18 and 21, should go put out their cigarettes on Jerry Brown.
An 18 year old is legally an adult who can vote and can join the military to fight and possibly die for the country. But he can’t buy booze or smoke and can be on daddy’s insurance for up to 10 years later. IMO, not that anyone asked or cares, there’s too many picky little laws taking away adulthood on 18 year olds. We all know the vast majority of them can’t find their way out of a paper bag so raise the legal age back up to 21 for everything and be done with it.
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