Raising cigarette-buying age to 21 a new strategy in fighting addiction

[nicnik]

A new study written up in tobacco Control, with some bizarre reasoning. Rahm Emanuel moves quickly to protect the public from press reports of his scandals, by embracing this ambitious idiocy.

Raising cigarette-buying age to 21 a new strategy in fighting addiction

Researchers said 21 as a minimum age would be particularly effective because young people who are unable to buy tobacco are most likely to get the products from friends and peers. It is less likely a 21-year-old would be in the same social circles as high school or middle school students, and thus able to provide cigarettes, according to the report.

Another nudge in the direction of the black market for smoking, smokeless, and vaping.

 

[DC2]

It's almost as if none of "them" even have a brain.
Of course, this kind of garbage wouldn't even fly if the public had one.

So yeah, ummm, yeah.
:shrug:

 

[zoiDman]

Rahm Emanuel is an Embarrassment to the Election Process.

 

[BackDoc]

I'm sure he was Selected, not Elected..........yes, he's a psycho

 

[zoiDman]

I'm sure he was Selected, not Elected...

I'm sure Many of the Fine Folks who hail from Chicago wish he was.

Because it is Much Easier to remove an Appointed Official than it is to Remove an Elected One.

BTW - This was published today in The Atlantic.

Can Rahm Emanuel Survive in Office? Advice From a Mayor Who Did

 

[EBates]

Oh definitely I agree. As it is a well known fact that once reaching 21 folks would never become a pusher to Chillums wishing to obtain contraband items.
OMG! Folks actually voted this guy into office?

 

[Lessifer]

Come on guys, I mean, this is obviously why underage drinking is non existent.

 

[sofarsogood]

Raising the smoking age is a reaction to ecigs, not to smoking. They want ecigs banned entirely while cigarettes are available as always. If ecigs should be banned then cigarettes can also be banned. Why aren't they calling for banning both?

 

[Lessifer]

Raising the smoking age is a reaction to ecigs, not to smoking. They want ecigs banned entirely while cigarettes are available as always. If ecigs should be banned then cigarettes can also be banned. Why aren't they calling for banning both?

Because aside from the taxes collected, there is an entire industry around cigarettes, multiple if you count their health effects. No politician wants to kill an entire established industry composed of billion dollar corporations. A fledgling industry mostly composed of small businesses is a completely different story.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Come on guys, I mean, this is obviously why underage drinking is non existent.

Absolutely and why we do not have any illegal drugs problem.

 

[Yiana]

Isn't there a huge black market in Chicago just for cigarettes because of the obscene costs? Yeah, this action is really going to work.

 

[BackDoc]

More money for the Chicago Gangsters/politicians.............But not to worry, Rahm is on the job...........and answering EBates question "who voted this guy in office?"........the same imbecilic socialists who voted in our commander in chief..............TWICE........

 

[DrMA]

Because current age-prohibition has been so effective that only 90% of smokers start before the restricted age (currently 18). Therefore, raising the age to 21 should change that number to about 99%, that is starting to smoke before the age at which it's legal to buy. Yes, a very effective policy.

 

[Lessifer]

Because current age-prohibition has been so effective that only 90% of smokers start before the restricted age (currently 18). Therefore, raising the age to 21 should change that number to about 99%, that is starting to smoke before the age at which it's legal to buy. Yes, a very effective policy.

Well, if underage smoking continues to decline, people might start thinking that tobacco use might not be such a big problem, and then where will all the funding go? What better way to bring those under age use numbers back up than to broaden the definition of "underage?"

 

[choochoogranny]

Think our gov. has already started redefining "underage", Lessifer, under the ObamaCare Program. Believe 26 is the cutoff age to be included in parents insurance coverage?

 

[Lessifer]

Think our gov. has already started redefining "underage", Lessifer, under the ObamaCare Program. Believe 26 is the cutoff age to be included in parents insurance coverage?

True, although that one somewhat makes sense. Socially we have been pushing back the age of adulthood for a very long time. We say you're an adult at 18, but we hardly blink if a 20 year old college student does something childish, or if a 28 year old still lives at home with her parents.

That's not really what my comment was about though. I was strictly talking about the numbers game.

 

[choochoogranny]

Yes. How to inflate a particularly group to achieve the needed numbers to fit an agenda.

 

[BackDoc]

Exactly Choochgranny, the Scientific/research term for it is "curve fitting"

 

[choochoogranny]

Where is HE? I need to find HIM, BackDoc. I can't fly a plane.

 

[BackDoc]

Where is HE? I need to find HIM, BackDoc. I can't fly a plane.

...........To the best of my knowledge, somewhere north of Colorado