[LetsRok]

Exactly. Possesion of cigarettes by minors should be illegal. Any adult who sees a child with a cigarette should have the authority to confiscate them immediately.

[Phantom Lord]

Liberals are always whining and complaining that we need to raise cigarette taxes "for the children" because the higher price would cause less to start smoking.

I wonder how much more effective a $50 fine for possesion and a $100 fine for attempted purchase would be than a $1.00 increase in the price of a pack.

Especially if you increased fines per incident, and after 3 incidents start tacking on long hours of community service.

Like I said, the activity would probably not be greatly reduced. But the activity in public would almost immediatly halt. Who here has not seen a roving gang of 20 15 year olds puffing away at the mall entrance?