Raising Minimum Smoking Age

[Thunderbird is the word]

I think that after education in school you should be able to drink or smoke or do whatever at eighteen. This kind of nanny state bullsh**t is the one thing I can't stand the most about modern progressives. I also think that smoking should be allowed in bars, albeit with a limited number of licenses approved per year.

[Thunderbird is the word]

No, it should be lowered to 18.

This. We should also make the drinking age 18.

[Thunderbird is the word]

There should be no minimum smoking age.

agreed, it should be banned entirely.

Thanks for knowing what is best for me!

haha that slogan doesn't really work when you're talking about tobacco.

Wait, am I being lectured by a person (pardon the pun) who refuses to use capital letters?

oh man, you got me! i guess we should keep doing nothing about the world's most common preventable cause of death after all!

^{seriously, though, this is almost as good of a non sequitur as tnf's last one. congrats!}

Um have you by any chance seen the effects of prohibition? Just look at the drug war or alcohol prohibition for christsake. You wouldn't be saving any lives, you'd probably be killing more people by enabling violent cartels.

[Thunderbird is the word]

I'm fine with making people go outside or to designated smoking areas... but this country is a stressful and often horrible place to live for a vast majority.  Now the owning classes want to take away that one nice little treat that young wage slaves have to relax and chill them out if that's what they choose?  Most employers are even lenient with allowing smoke breaks so people can rest their weary bodies and minds outside of their woefully insufficient "lunch" (typically a pathetic half hour).   

No, I don't support taking cigarettes away from the young working classes while Mr. Boss Man puffs his Cubans in his office without fear of any consequences despite any laws he might be breaking.