Posted on 05/05/2016 5:14:36 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — California is taking a big step toward getting tobacco out of the hands of teenagers.
It has raised the age at which cigarettes, e-cigarettes and chewing tobacco can be bought from 18 to 21. Hawaii is the only other state that has passed a similar law.
Lunch time at the District's Woodrow Wilson High School had teens flooding into Tenleytown.
A few were smoking, most were not. When asked about the law, teenager Mariah Auth, who has been smoking for three years said she thinks the law is a good idea. She's currently trying to kick the habit.
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In San Francisco they want to lower it to 16.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/supervisors-support-lowering-sf-voting-age-16/
“A lot of people from California are clueless in every way about the connection between shouldering responsibility and rights.
We chalk your weird position up to being from Calipornia.”
That’s such a nonsensical statement as to question your ablity to reason! Your remarks are simply an ad hominem attack on a large, diverse group of people that adds nothing to the current discussion. I guess you subscribe to the Barak Obama ldology of dividing the country up into warring factions. So now we have Blacks, Hispanics, LBGT’s and “Californians?”
Democrats are obsessed with deciding what is good or bad and controlling what people do - all for their own good of course.
Of course this on;ly applies to those lucky enough to win the abortion lottery and don’t end up being turned into spare parts in the liberal abortion mills.
The government does not like smoking. But they love the taxes it generates.
Another case of clear, political leadership from the left.
Well you know, an ad hominem attack on responsible young men in the military is going to garner an appropriate response.
My response was fully earned.
I note that in this exchange you (of your own personal volition) did not choose to weigh in on the side of our troops, and in so doing affirmed the inference that they are effectively children.
So continue to spew out whatever bovine excrement you got.
You will have fully earned what you are about to get.
Even if you didn’t bother to read the post I was responding to.
Military is exempt from the law. I hear this on the news this morning.
Correct, except for that old decrepit document, the US Constitution.
What happens at 24?
You’ve never understood what “correlation”?
Yes, you can join up at 17. But 18 is the age of majority in CA. So you can vote, drive, get married, have children, be tried as an adult and sit on a jury but you cannot smoke a Marlboro or have a beer even if you have done a tour in the sandbox. What is your position on this? Should we also limit their soda intake?
If you’re old enough to be in the military and have joined the service you should be able to drink and smoke. Period.
I expect the proposed marjuanana initiative out here will set that smoking age at 18. It’s about priorities.
“So continue to spew out whatever bovine excrement you got.”
I lost a family member in Vietnam, did you? BTW, in case you missed it, the discussion was about what constitutes the age of majority, not whether or not military service was patriotic. I fully support our military, but the politicians who get to use it, not so much. Sometimes, war is a necessary tool to preserve liberty. Virtually none of the wars we’ve been in since 1945, viewing them in hindsight were necessary for the presevation of our liberty. In the ME, GHWB went to the aid of the Kuwati’s while the Kuwati “leadership” all left the country while we used our blood and treasure to protect them in absentia. I take it you think that that was a good idea.
I have never understood the correlation “old enough to serve, old enough to vote.” They are two different things, and while I respect immensely anyone serving at any age, in my estimation serving in the military is insufficient in itself to substitute for total experience in all facets of life to make informed decisions about voting at that age. One also has to consider what percentage of all 18 year-olds are in fact in the service.
Now if an exception was made for 21 UNLESS one is in or has served in the military, I would be fine with that even though it would never fly.
As for the age of maturity in California, it was 21 back in the day, and I never supported the change, the same as voting. San Francisco wants to lower voting age to like 15 or 16. Where does it end?
That pesky Constitution can be changed, you know, so I assume you favor an amendment to lower voting age to 17, to allow all service members the franchise, and open up all political offices to 18?
Finally, having kids is not a real great standard for adulthood. All it takes is a ready erection and a fertile womb. 12 year-olds can do that. Shall they vote too?
Homosexual acts spread death and disease, yet the state encourages them.
Is California doing anything about getting pot out of the hands of teenagers?
Young folks already flaunt their disregard for various stupid lawslike the marijuana ban.
This will just increase the disregard of gubmint.
As if age limit ever stopped anybody. I started smoking at age of 13. My friends and I always found a way to get cigarettes, we were not nearly as resourceful as the kids today.
It’s just a “feel good” symbolic law that will have zero impact.
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