Raising Minimum Smoking Age

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There should be no minimum smoking age.

I more or less agree with this sentiment, although I would be okay with setting a legal age for being able to purchase tobacco products, which should be at sixteen. If you're old enough for your labor to be exploited by the capitalists, you should be old enough to buy something that helps you cope with it.

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There should be no minimum smoking age.

agreed, it should be banned entirely.

Because that worked out so well with alcohol and is working just fine with Cannabis, Psilocybin Mushrooms, LSD, Heroin, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, etc., right?

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There should be no minimum smoking age.

agreed, it should be banned entirely.

Thanks for knowing what is best for me!

Such a hero!

I also support a legal smoking and drinking age of 16, as well as 16 to buy weed.

Why 16? Wouldn't that be an incentive for High School students to start smoking tobacco? I at least think 18 + so they have the full adult mindset to inform them.

If you're old enough to have your labor exploited for profit, you're old enough to buy something to help you cope with it.

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Drinking age should be lowered to 18.

Or abolished outright.

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it should be noted that over 10% of deaths due to smoking are from secondhand smoke, so the "well i'm just hurting myself, who cares" argument is bullsht.

now, unless you have a different argument than "i have the ｆｒｅｅｄｏｍ to shove tar into my lungs at top speed and ｎｏｂｏｄｙ ｃａｎ ｓｔｏｐ ｍｅ ≧ʍ≦" i'll be leaving this thread

What about the argument that prohibiting drugs doesn't work, which I made on the last page and which you never responded to?

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it should be noted that over 10% of deaths due to smoking are from secondhand smoke, so the "well i'm just hurting myself, who cares" argument is bullsht.

now, unless you have a different argument than "i have the ｆｒｅｅｄｏｍ to shove tar into my lungs at top speed and ｎｏｂｏｄｙ ｃａｎ ｓｔｏｐ ｍｅ ≧ʍ≦" i'll be leaving this thread

What about the argument that prohibiting drugs doesn't work, which I made on the last page and which you never responded to?

didn't respond because it's apples vs oranges. it's worked pretty well for everything but alcohol and cannabis, and those are objectively an entirely different class of drug than tobacco.

Oh, so its working well in combating the heroin epidemic going on across the country right now? It worked well in addressing methamphetamine in the 2000s? It did a good job stopping crack and cocaine addiction in the 1980s?

A system that literally does nothing to stop the flow of drugs into the country (in which police forces, prison guards, and gangsters are all involved) and does not treat addiction is working 'pretty well'? One that incarcerates millions of non-violent offenders?