McConnell proposes raising the tobacco age to 21

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Cocaine Mitch! Strongly approve!

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I may support such a proposal. Tabacco should just be taxed through the roof to pay for medical costs. Taxes for healthier things should be reduced in return.

You see, we live in America, where the police will kill the sellers in the black market to avoid those taxes, pun intended. A regressive tax on the poorly educated, among other non-privileged classes isn't ideal either.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

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.

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.

Think of it as giving people a few more years to grow a brain before they turn themselves into a slave for all of their extremely shortened eternity.