Hawaii votes to ban cigarettes for those under 21

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These policies are bad enough as they are, but this is the first one to add criminal penalties for legal adults possessing cigarettes. Horrible.

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The government should have the right to ban harmful substances, and I would have no issue with a ban on tobacco products except from the "criminalizing these substances does more harm than good" perspective that is the same issue I have with the drug war.

The government should NOT have the right to strip the right to buy products from legal adults in the name of "for your own good". It's the retroactive exclusion of people from their rights that is the issue here, not the substance. I feel the same way about drinking laws, but at least there it can be argued there's a public safety issue.