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Raising smoking age to 21 (1 Viewer)

Raise the smoking age to 21

  • Yes

    Votes: 55 67.9%

  • No

    Votes: 26 32.1%
  • Total voters
    81
Chaka said:
I assume the poll refers to all tobacco products. Vaping needs to he massively regulated.
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Vaping probably just needs the same regs, and education, as regular smoking.  I've not paid enough attention to what specifically is the problem with it.  Whatever it is won't surprise me though.

You mean a foreign substance that's a substitute for tobacco is bad for you?  No. Way!

 
MAC_32 said:
Vaping probably just needs the same regs, and education, as regular smoking.  I've not paid enough attention to what specifically is the problem with it.  Whatever it is won't surprise me though.

You mean a foreign substance that's a substitute for tobacco is bad for you?  No. Way!
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Start with eliminating the flavored vapes that cater to children, make vape commercials on television illegal like cigarettes and forbid any and all advertising that even suggests that vaping is healthier than smoking.

 
Leroy Hoard said:
Unless of course they stay dumb. Then we are all screwed.
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There were dumb kids in your generation.  There were dumb kids in the ones prior.  And there will be more dumb kids in future ones.

Open access to everything for all and let them sort it all out, just like we all did.

 
Vaping is becoming a huge problem at my school. It’s almost odorless and so it’s hard to detect. We’ve had issues with seniors who are 18 buying them to sell to the younger kids.

 
MAC_32 said:
Smoking has decreased on its own.  It doesn't need intervention.  The invisible hand is doing work.  Leave it be.
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Smoking has not decreased on its own. Smoking has decreased because the government intervened by banning most advertisements, funding anti-smoking campaigns, and forcing tobacco companies to put warning labels on their packaging.

Oh, and the government already increased the smoking age to 18 in 1992.

 
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I support the right of a free adult to consume products which may be dangerous to him or her. On that principle, I oppose raising the smoking age past 18.

But the moment those dangerous activities impede on the environment of the rest of us, then I support the right to regulate the hell out of your actions.

 
smoking is horrible and losing buddies to the cancer it causes is even worse the whole damned cigarette industry can go to hell and they sure as hell deserve it bunch of cover up jerks in my opinion take that to the bank bromigos 

 
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Ilov80s said:
Ok why lower the smoking age?
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As others have said, I'm fine with the "dumb ones" or whatever you want to call the group weeding themselves out.

I just think in this proposed scenario, it's a little silly that we more highly value protecting kids health (in a society that has already done a great job of exposing the risks of smoking) than we do protecting the nation's health by letting kids who know very little about politics and who likely only have memory of a single president stored in their brain and very little life experience make monumental decisions for the direction of the future of the country, including themselves, which at that age I believe they can be a threat to their own future.

 
Chaka said:
:goodposting:   :lmao:

Although I admit I used to enjoy taking trips to Flavor Country.
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Tried it one time in my Navy days (boot camp).....YUCK.

480,000

Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.Nov 28, 2018

 
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[scooter] said:
I support the right of a free adult to consume products which may be dangerous to him or her. On that principle, I oppose raising the smoking age past 18.

But the moment those dangerous activities impede on the environment of the rest of us, then I support the right to regulate the hell out of your actions.
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Such as health insurance? And my state is fairly affordable in comparison to others.

 
brun said:
Once had a girl tell me I looked good with a cigarette. 
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I will confess there is something cool with how it looks lighting a cig and using it as a prop while you talk. And, the sharing  of a smoke looks like it would be a good bonding thing.

 
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