Whether he encourages towns and/or states to raise their ages or expresses a desire to raise the federal age, would this help him, hurt him, or not make a difference? Would the media or voters care?
Whether he encourages towns and/or states to raise their ages or expresses a desire to raise the federal age, would this help him, hurt him, or not make a difference? Would the media or voters care?
Why would he?Whether he encourages towns and/or states to raise their ages or expresses a desire to raise the federal age, would this help him, hurt him, or not make a difference? Would the media or voters care?
Wait you can smoke at 18 but not drink?Wut
Some thousands don't die.
Isn't that worth it?
Short answer: No. The black market in cigarettes has been and still is really trivial - even with extremely high taxation, it never has become anything of note. The younger people start smoking, the higher the eventual death rate.Or would thousands more die due to the black market tobacco trade to the under 21s? I don't drink, smoke or do drugs but I still think drug prohibitions don't really work.
with tens of thousands of people going to jail.Some thousands don't die.
Isn't that worth it?
with tens of thousands of people going to jail.
I support if you're old enough to vote old enough to join the Army you're old enough to drink and smoke
Death of Eric Garner there are a lot of people that have gone to jail for selling cigarettes you fail to see the stupidity in the US justice system in the 90s they like throwing people in jail.Come on, no one goes to jail, they just can't get addicted earlier.
As my father used to say, "Being an adult doesn't give you the right to be stupid."
Short answer: No. The black market in cigarettes has been and still is really trivial - even with extremely high taxation, it never has become anything of note. The younger people start smoking, the higher the eventual death rate.
Raising the minimum age isn't prohibition, it's just reducing the number of people who will die from said drug, whether it's tobacco, or teenagers getting loaded on beer and driving, etc.
A short quote from the CDC:
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.
Death of Eric Garner there are a lot of people that have gone to jail for selling cigarettes you fail to see the stupidity in the US justice system in the 90s they like throwing people in jail.
and sorry dude Freedom of Choice trumps anything your father said prohibition for the most part always leads to more crime.
The black market in cigarettes doesn't include a population where the smoking age is 21. This could well change things.
That really wasn't on the political radar at that time. Somewhere between 25% and 30% of the population were smokers, many restaurants and workplaces still allowed smoking, and it was still much more acceptable by the general population. Some states, like Louisiana and New Mexico, had just introduced a minimum age for smoking less than 5 years earlier. It was an idea that only started gaining any political traction in the mid-2010s, and I think it was first implemented in 2016 (Hawaii and California).
Bill Clinton wouldn't support it unless it was already a broadly popular policy, so you'd need a much earlier POD to make smoking less acceptable to the general population.
That said, I personally would vote against anyone (including my current governor and representative in the House of Delegates) who implements that. If we as a society say that 18 is the age of adulthood, then they should enjoy the same personal autonomy as any other adult, including sexual autonomy, gun ownership, drinking, gambling, smoking, voting, serving in the military, signing their own contracts, etc. If we as a society want to make 21 the age of adulthood, then we should repeal the 26th Amendment.
I agree.I tend to agree, if we say someone 18 is an adult then they are an adult all the way.
Some thousands don't die.
Isn't that worth it?