Local ecig child possession laws starting to appear

[sofarsogood]

http://halfwheel.com/grandview-heig...acco-purchase-and-consumption-age-to-21/96242

Just in the past few days I'm noticing reports of a few local governments making possession of ecigs by minors a misdemeanor. Similar tobacco possession laws have existing for many years and are rarely if ever enforced. What I expect is the police will enforce bans on ecig possession but not on tobacco. Time will tell.

 

[nicnik]

Another ban for under 21.

So a 20-year-old with PTSD from serving in Afghanistan, who is married, with a 18-month-old child, and vaping in an attempt to quit smoking, will be threatend with this:

The changes, which also include electronic cigarettes and liquid nicotine, make it a misdemeanor for a person under 21 years of age to be in possession of them, a penalty which carries up to a $100 fine and 20 hours of community service.

 

[choochoogranny]

Under the Affordable Care Act, one can be considered a minor until age 26. I guess the gov. can select in what circumstance you are an adult.

 

[Kent C]

Another ban for under 21.

So a 20-year-old with PTSD from serving in Afghanistan, who is married, with a 18-month-old child, and vaping in an attempt to quit smoking, will be threatend with this:

1000+ likes for that viewpoint!

 

[Kent C]

Under the Affordable Care Act, one can be considered a minor until age 26. I guess the gov. can select in what circumstance you are an adult.

"Yes we can!" (and no, I'm not part of it :- )

 

[DrMA]

Another ban for under 21.

So a 20-year-old with PTSD from serving in Afghanistan, who is married, with a 18-month-old child, and vaping in an attempt to quit smoking, will be threatend with this:

Outstanding post! Really, just brilliant!

 

[caramel]

Another ban for under 21.

So a 20-year-old with PTSD from serving in Afghanistan, who is married, with a 18-month-old child, and vaping in an attempt to quit smoking, will be threatend with this:

Make it 3 years in jail until "concerned parents" finally understand what "thinkofthechildren" arguments are all about.

Would sacrifice a couple generations but after that no one would dare to mention it ever again (unless they have a death wish that is).

 

[Rickb119]

Under the Affordable Care Act, one can be considered a minor until age 26. I guess the gov. can select in what circumstance you are an adult.

In the eyes of the government, we are all helpless ignorant children who need to be taken care of and told what to do, or not do.

 

[stevegmu]

These are never enforced. Maybe if a hooligan is blowing clouds at a cops face...

 

[sofarsogood]

They say they want to protect children. They are lying hypocrits. Of course nobody should give anything to a kid their parents might not approve. That's been the common law for thousands of years and you can take that to court if there's good cause. In the mean time parents should be the ones deciding if their kids can possess ECs off school property. That too is common sense.

Getting aggressive about the protect-the-kids angle sets up the rock and the hard place. They want to be more aggressive about keeping kids away from ecigs than about keeping kids away from tobacco. When it gets to that the moral high ground is somewhere in the high Hymalayas. From up there you can roast them. Bring 'em on.

 

[EBates]

So, the question in my mind would be 'how many kids are being prosecuted for possession of cigarettes or liquor currently'?
I see this as just another BS law that worthless politicians dream up.

 

[motordude]

We all know teenagers follow all the rules!

 

[sofarsogood]

In my teenage years I could buy cigs anywhere but I mostly smoked out of site of adults. I carried my cigarettes into school but never smoked there or allowed them to be detected. If you had asked me then I would have said it's legal for kids to buy and use tobacco. That probably was not true but that's how little attention was paid to the issue.

If we really want kids to quit smoking why not enforce the possession laws? If we aren't willing to do that there is no justification for posession laws related to ecigs. Having said that I think school principles should be able to say kids can't carry their ecigs on to school grounds. Schools should have the widest discretion about what kids can wear or bring to school.