Raising the age limit to 21 for tobacco purchase and use

[gatordad3]

Not that I smoke cigs, chew tobacco, dip, and smoke cigars, but raising the age limit to purchase and use to tobacco products? I guess minors going out buying e cigs is getting somewhat out of control.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/20/sen...l-to-raise-the-federal-smoking-age-to-21.html
Oh, and the libtards want to lower the voting age from 18 to 16?
I've noticed in several work places years ago they've made weak attempts at taking away designated smoking areas to encourage people to quit smoking, even prohibiting them from smoking in the parking lot. They still walk off the property to smoke, especially smoke in the pouring rain with umbrellas.

 

[nail1988]

Not that I smoke cigs, chew tobacco, dip, and smoke cigars, but raising the age limit to purchase and use to tobacco products? I guess minors going out buying e cigs is getting somewhat out of control.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/20/sen...l-to-raise-the-federal-smoking-age-to-21.html
Oh, and the libtards want to lower the voting age from 18 to 16?
I've noticed in several work places years ago they've made weak attempts at taking away designated smoking areas to encourage people to quit smoking, even prohibiting them from smoking in the parking lot. They still walk off the property to smoke, especially smoke in the pouring rain with umbrellas.

How long will before the leftist start handing out packs of squares like they do condoms and syringes?

 

[gatordad3]

How long will before the leftist start handing out packs of squares like they do condoms and syringes?

They do that in California, right?

 

[sadgator]

Anybody who still smokes (or vapes) anything other than Marijuana is an imbecile.

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

About 4 years ago, the Kiowa brothers stopped offering me a cigar at my annual visit to the Kiowa Medicine Lodge. I sure am grateful. One never turns down a smoke when an Indian offers.

My father taught me to never go near the Indians without a clean shave.

 

[Dr. Curmudgeon]

Anybody who still smokes (or vapes) anything other than Marijuana is an imbecile.

Smoking dope is the intelligent way to smoke??

 

[GhostOfMatchesMalone]

Smoking dope is the intelligent way to smoke??

Have never understood why libs are obsessed with marijuana. Although it does help explain where most of their ideas come from.

 

[Dr. Curmudgeon]

Have never understood why libs are obsessed with marijuana. Although it does help explain where most of their ideas come from.

True...I guarantee Miss OC was stoned when she concocted that zany GND.

 

[Dr. Curmudgeon]

I smoked more weed before I got out of high school than all the time since then. Haven’t touched it since about six months after I got of college.

A number of my high-school dope smoking buddies ended up in jail/prison and/or dead by suicide/homicide. Of course, not everyone who smokes weed ends up in the gutter, but just about everyone that did started out with weed.

I’ve seen the devastation of drug abuse first hand, and I cringe at the thought of legalized marijuana.

I have arrested drug smugglers and pushers (for most of my life). They are always adding a little more to weed to hook their customers even more and make them have to increase usage to get a high. It's a road straight to hell for many that can't overcome addictions.

 

[gatordad3]

Mitch McConnell is up for re-election in 2020. It will be interesting to see how this plays out with Kentucky voters. The tobacco lobby isn’t as powerful as it used to be, so I presume McConnell has made a political calculation to gain some street cred with fellow senators, the media, etc.

I can attest that tobacco has a strong presence in my home state. Until about 1985, my younger brothers senior year, my high school had a designated area for students to smoke. Ky continues to have among the lowest cigarette taxes in the country, and my home county is across the river from Illinois. On the Ky side, there are five or six tobacco shops within two miles of the bridge. On the Illinois side (home of one of the highest cigarette taxes in the nation), there are several prominent signs warning people that bootlegging cigarettes from Ky is a violation of state law.

I used to be a social smoker, but have only smoked 4-5 times in the past 25 years. Definitely a bad habit.

Good luck to Mitch, since he's a senator in one of the states that produces the most tobacco products.