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20. Because we enable them by practically begging them to be anti-choice, which some here love

Thu Oct 31, 2013, 03:06 AM

Oct 2013

We want someone to control what others can and cannot do (except on one issue - outside of that issue we run to the leader who promises to force other people to make the choices our 'god' tells us to. Have to save them sinners from their wicked ways).

Some like to live in fear - like the rw of Muslims after 9/11. Take away freedoms to protect us, make us safe, please mr bush and others in government save me from those not like me.

The only difference between some on the left and right when it comes to freedoms? Are which choices they are most anti-about...all the while both sides yelling they are most pro-choice.

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NY City Council Votes to Raise Cigarette Purchase Age to 21 [View all] Hissyspit Oct 2013 OP

So when are they going to raise the legal age for buying.... Rebellious Republican Oct 2013 #1

Beyond Messed Up billhicks76 Oct 2013 #2

+1 eom Purveyor Oct 2013 #3

Laws like this are used by the Tea Baggers to whip up the sheep warrant46 Oct 2013 #5

The age for alcohol consumption has been 21 for going on 30 years now? alphafemale Oct 2013 #8

Because kids follow age limit laws SnakeEyes Oct 2013 #10

Yeah...that people will ignore it so why bother argument. alphafemale Oct 2013 #16

Telling an 18-year-old Marine who's just finished boot-camp that he can't legally smoke or indepat Oct 2013 #11

It's NYC. Guns are not ok. At least not for the average citizen. JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2013 #13

I think 18 yr olds can drink on base. alphafemale Oct 2013 #15

It used to be; they changed it in the early 1990s jmowreader Oct 2013 #17

I was in the navy in the late 60s, the legal age was whatever it was where you were stationed. olddad56 Oct 2013 #26

From 1982 to sometime between 1986 and 1992 it was far different jmowreader Oct 2013 #27

Nanny State billhicks76 Nov 2013 #28

Age limits on drugs are an interesting topic. True Blue Door Oct 2013 #4

You nailed it billhicks76 Nov 2013 #29

good gopiscrap Oct 2013 #6

And add ten bucks to the tax per pack. Cigarettes, like the lottery, are a curse on the poor. nt onehandle Oct 2013 #7

So poor people can't choose to live as the please? nt SnakeEyes Oct 2013 #9

so poor people should be treated like kids? bossy22 Oct 2013 #14

And smokers cost society less, not more. Bozvotros Oct 2013 #19

Those studies never calculate in second hand smoke damage and lost productivity. onehandle Oct 2013 #23

Cigarettes have a purpose SnakeEyes Nov 2013 #32

This will create jobs hollowdweller Oct 2013 #12

Why is this type of thing the only thing that politicians can do? Bozvotros Oct 2013 #18

Because we enable them by practically begging them to be anti-choice, which some here love The Straight Story Oct 2013 #20

great post n/t Psephos Oct 2013 #21

At 18, you're old enough to get sentenced to the death penalty. Hell, in some cases, 14 is old Nanjing to Seoul Oct 2013 #22

I remember when the age to buy smokes was 16.....We had smoking areas at our High School Burma Jones Oct 2013 #24

My Dad used to send me up to the corner store to buy cigarettes for him when I was 11 years old alcibiades_mystery Oct 2013 #25

PATH trains to Jersey City are already full of people looking to shop with lower sales tax KamaAina Nov 2013 #30

Till about 10 years ago, Pennsylvania banned Cigarettes buying by minors, then defined minor at 21. happyslug Nov 2013 #31

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