McConnell proposes raising the tobacco age to 21

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It should be illegal to produce and sell tobacco.

The people who buy, use, and store tobacco are victims.

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It’s insane how authoritarian you all are. The idea that most of you think legal adults shouldn’t be able to smoke a legal drug is beyond me.

I think it's less authoritarianism and moor just a want for consistency. If you can't buy pot or alcohol until you're 21, it only makes sense to apply it to tabacco as well.

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Uh... no. There's actual science to the alcohol age being 21 as it relates to brain development. Setting that age for nicotine is just blasphemy. Nicotine is harmless in vape form, except for the potential for addiction, which is a decision adults should be able to make themselves.

Do actually have a source for that. Only a handful of countries have a drinking age of higher than 18 so I doubt that's true.

Brains are still developing until people reach their early 20's. Alcohol stunts brain development. There are multiple sources for this.

Brains are still not fully developed until people reach the age of 26 in some cases.