McConnell proposes raising the tobacco age to 21

[Person Man]

Hopefully this is a first step towards a full tobacco ban!

F**k no.

Nobody thinks that tobacco is safe or healthy, and if people want to use it in spite of knowing all the negative effects, that's on them and the Government should allow them to do so.

[Person Man]

Hopefully this is a first step towards a full tobacco ban!

F**k no.

Nobody thinks that tobacco is safe or healthy, and if people want to use it in spite of knowing all the negative effects, that's on them and the Government should allow them to do so.

Wrong. Tobacco is one of the key drivers of Medicare costs. Anybody who smokes is selfishly freeloading on the government dole.

You know he is just doing this for other reasons. Some I can think of are quite unsavory.

[Person Man]

Kansas City, MO has a law restricting the age of purchasing tobacco to 21+. I don't know how effective it has been at deterring smoking, but it seems rather ridiculous to me regardless of its effectiveness. The best we can do is promote campaigns that teach the reality of smoking's harms to youths and leave the rest to their judgment. Raising the minimum ages isn't going to prevent someone from smoking who's determined to smoke. The same applies to the minimum age of marijuana and alcohol purchase laws.

You can go to war, vote, and take out student loans, but can't have a beer or smoke a cigarette. It's stupid.

Pretty much. They should raise the age for being drafted or applying to be a fighter to 21, then. Maybe they should also have a public grade 13-15 for either Trade School (construction,manufacturing,natural resources, medical,technical, and business paraprofessionals) , pre-Professional(maths,chem,phys for engineering/cs, chem/ochem/basic math-phys for medical, writing and philosophy for law/therapy) or pre-Research programs(people who want phds).

If we want to start raising ages on stuff, we should treat adolescents as adolescents.