(New York) City Proposes Raising Minimum Age for Cigarette Purchases to 21

NY Times ^ | April 22, 2013 | Anemona Hartocollis

[djf]

What I don’t understand is how the city keeps getting away with it. Doesn’t anybody in Albany have a say?

Even though the ones in Albany might agree, seems to me state law would be controlling over local whims and daydreams...

[reformedliberal]

At what age can you vote in NY? At what age are you considered to no longer be a minor? At what age can you serve full active duty in the US Military in NY? At what age can you buy and sell property in NY? Just wondrin’....

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At what age can a trustafarian sit on a corporate BOD for a little walkin’ around money and even less work?

[ozzymandus]

I think not. And besides, nobody cared what happened in Germany until they invaded another country.

[Olog-hai]

NYC’s nonsense may yet invade its neighboring states via a sort of reverse California effect.