Yep, it's extremely easy for most kids to get ahold of tobacco or alcohol, should they desire to. Yet, somehow, not every kid is a smoking drunk. Legislating behavior though regulations like this never works. It comes down to personal responsibility and choices, (with the associated consequences), as it should.
I never even touched a coffin nail until I enlisted in the Air Force. CA has created a truly messed up scenario now; a young man can be drafted into the military and be expected to die for our country at 18, but it's illegal for him to smoke. WTH kind of twisted logic is that?!
Not only is all you say true but the eighteen year old who is too stupid to decide about tobacco is suddenly smart enough to chose the leaders of the country by the vote.