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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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