Won’t that cut into their revenue? The feds make more on a pack of cigarettes than do the manufacturers...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to introduce legislation raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21 from 18, a move that public-health advocates and tobacco companies hope would curb the use of e-cigarettes among youths.
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Don’t our Congress vermin have anything BETTER to do than find new ways to restrict people’s rights?
Legalize pot, illegalize cigarettes, Dems are insane
Buy a patch, gum, e-cigs...They created all these secondary markets and collect ridiculous taxes associated with these products.
And soon we'll all be able to buy marijuana...and they'll collect mucho taxes on that, too.
They don't give a sh** about your health...they make money on that, too.
So, they’ll need ID to smoke.
But anyone can vote.
Sooner or later, folks, we’re going to have to take this up with congresscritters.
Behind the shed.
No smokes until 21 but smart enough to vote at 16?
I get your point, but allowing those people to be in monogomous married relationships prevents spreading disease. It’s the closet gay congressmen that meet in bathroom stalls at the airport when their wives are out of town that we need to worry about ha
It is ironic, though. To murder an unborn child? Do they also have to be 21?
Are you an adult or a child at 18? If we let people vote at 18 we’ve made the call that they are adults, thus ALL benefits and responsibilities of adulthood should be demanded. We don’t need a helicopter government for helicopter children.
If booze, smokes and guns are 21.
Voting should be too.
E cigarettes, the gateway drug to...water vapor.9
So this is the important work that he’s doing instead of trying to get our insane government spending and open borders under control. What a freakin joke. This is exactly the type of thing that should be left to the states.
This has nothing to do with health and everything to do with the time honored needs for money and control.
CS Lewis had it right about dogooders. They will torment us ceaselessly.
“More than a dozen states have passed or enacted laws raising the minimum age to 21 and others are considering doing so. Sen. McConnell’s announcement Thursday follows the introduction earlier this month of similar bills in the House.“
If states are already doing it, then that is even less reason for the federal government to get involved.
Do any of these bozos really think this is what the Founders had in mind when they granted Congress the power to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes?”
Seeing crap like this come from Republicans makes me sick.
Why is big government so incredibly concerned about tobacco use on one hand, and turning such a massive blind eye to the national epidemic of opiods and illegal drugs flowing across the southern border? Gee, what could it be?
Can’t buy cigs until 21
but can join army, shoot and blow up stuff,
makes a lot of sense....
They’ll get the cigs just as they do the booze and weed.
Did politicians forget when they were teenagers?
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