NY proposes upping age to 21 to buy real cigs.

[Rocketpunk]

Heard about it today on NPR.

I wish I could remember the guy they soundbited, but he said something like, "If we can up the legal age limit from 18 to 21 to buy cigarettes, we can save a whole generation from kids being addicted to the world's most dangerous drug."

Well, technically, nicotine is a drug, and it is probably the world's most addictive substance, but it's most definitely not "the world's most dangerous" drug.

I wonder if this will affect the vaping community. Moral situations and such.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/nyregion/new-york-proposes-raising-minimum-age-for-cigarette-purchases.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[RosaJ]

Really?

 

[tw39515]

how did that large soda law do, lol

 

[boshans]

It's already 19, like ... do they want not even college kids to smoke? You can't buy a pack in high school anymore unless you got left back twice or something, I don't see what increasing the age to 21 would do at all, it is stupid. But whatever this is only for the city, not the whole state, so whatever.

 

[Kopfstimmen]

Look at it this way - at least you can still be convicted as an adult before you're 21.

 

[MoonLit_Water]

I use to go to the store at 13 years old and buy cigs, no one ever batted an eye. but that was new jersey and it was the 70's

 

[Covert24]

Just like outlawing or regulating anything, there will always be ways to get them. They could up the legal age to 50 and there would still be a slew of kids smoking. Doesn't matter what you regulate, people will find a way. Its human nature. Plus, who wants real cigs when you can vape Blu-Bacco by MBV which tastes like blueberry pancakes? Blueberry pancakes > Rat Poison every day of the week

 

[Rocketpunk]

We used to BMX to the laundry mat to buy cigs from the cig vending machine. And this was 1988-1991.

 

[Butters78]

I used to bmx like the guys in the 1980's hit RAD!

 

[Rocketpunk]

Eric, you're guaranteed to deliver an awesome reply!

But you ain't a true 80's child unless you can remember that sweet, sweet, all-metallic bedroom from Gleaming the Cube.

I used to bmx like the guys in the 1980's hit RAD!

 

[Butters78]

Lol bro I just mentioned gleaming the cube to my wife earlier tonight she was watching some Christian Slater movie when I got home from work.

 

[BostLabs]

BMX? Man those things can't hold a candle to my old WildCat.

Man I feel so old. LOL!

 

[Butters78]

Bostlabs don't feel old bro people turn those into lowrider bikes now.

 

[SilentEcho13]

Ouch. Better up the minimum age to join to armed forces to 21 too. Can't expose "kids" under 21 to violence.

 

[Rocketpunk]

Very good point, SilentEcho.