California raises smoking age from 18 to 21

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Text Drivers are Killers

Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
We need to also raise the driving age to 21. Smokers hurt only themselves but psycho drivers kill and maim other people.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-smoking-bills-20160504-story.html

may 6 2016 Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed a pack of bills that will raise the smoking age in California from 18 to 21, restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and expand no-smoking areas at public schools.

The tobacco industry has threatened to seek a referendum vote to overturn the bills increasing the smoking age and restricting e-cigarettes. That threat led lawmakers to employ procedural tricks to make it harder to qualify a referendum.

The governor’s action was criticized Wednesday by the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Assn., which represents makers of electronic cigarettes and said it would work with voters to educate them about the industry.

After some lawmakers objected that 18-year-olds can join the military but would be banned from smoking, Hernandez changed his bill to exempt people in active military service.
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True Conservatives™ must prove their right-wing credentials by resisting blatant and unconstitutional government overreach.

Therefore, you must compel your children to smoke, and force them to drive while drunk and texting, without seat belts.

It's the only way to show Obama how much you love the Constitution.
 
Sock said:
True Conservatives™ must prove their right-wing credentials by resisting blatant and unconstitutional government overreach.

Therefore, you must compel your children to smoke, and force them to drive while drunk and texting, without seat belts.

It's the only way to show Obama how much you love the Constitution.
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You are the dumbest person in the universes.

You don't know squat about the Constitution or what is a true conservative.
 
Democrats will jail you for smoking tobacco but make smoking weed legal.....go figure.....
 
Legion Troll said:
True Conservatives™ must prove their right-wing credentials by resisting blatant and unconstitutional government overreach.

Therefore, you must compel your children to smoke, and force them to drive while drunk and texting, without seat belts.

It's the only way to show Obama how much you love the Constitution.
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They will?


I'll understand if you don't know.

Poor Trollo.
 
Legion Troll said:
True Conservatives™ must prove their right-wing credentials by resisting blatant and unconstitutional government overreach.

Therefore, you must compel your children to smoke, and force them to drive while drunk and texting, without seat belts.

It's the only way to show Obama how much you love the Constitution.
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Is kissing Obama's ass how you show you love him?
 
I don't think that changing the age from 18 to 21 will make a huge difference with smoking in my opinion. I think the best way to keep teenagers and other people my age from smoking is to help continuing educating them on the bad things that it can do to your body, how addition works and how it compares to other things in your life that can give you a good perspective, peer pressure from your friends not to smoke, and parents, teachers, and coaches that you may look up to that set a good example. If someone wants to smoke they will find a way to smoke and so the age change I don't think will help tremendously, but most people start smoking in my opinion because their friends do.
 
After some lawmakers objected that 18-year-olds can join the military but would be banned from smoking, Hernandez changed his bill to exempt people in active military service
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smoke 'em if you got them, unless you're not GI Joe?
If you are old enough to join the military you're old enough to smoke....but you actually have to be in uniform?

A better idea is to raise the smoking age to 45 - in 20 years you'll get cancer, but then you can go on Medicare, and taxpayers will pay for it.

Or how about just making it illegal and then no one will smoke? :palm:
 
Should the government regulate sexual contact with minors?

Is that an example of intrusive government overreach?

Discuss.
 
Norah Beth said:
I don't think that changing the age from 18 to 21 will make a huge difference with smoking in my opinion. I think the best way to keep teenagers and other people my age from smoking is to help continuing educating them on the bad things that it can do to your body, how addition works and how it compares to other things in your life that can give you a good perspective, peer pressure from your friends not to smoke, and parents, teachers, and coaches that you may look up to that set a good example. If someone wants to smoke they will find a way to smoke and so the age change I don't think will help tremendously, but most people start smoking in my opinion because their friends do.
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that's entirely too logical..what's wrong with you?
 
I laugh when self-proclaimed advocates of states rights get up in arms because the elected representatives of a state enacted a regulation that the elected governor of that state signed into law.

It's especially hilarious when they don't even live in that state.
 
Legion Troll said:
Because if someone breaks a law, there shouldn't be one, because laws don't prevent the crime?
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because laws to prevent smoking, drinking. gambling, prostitution do not prevent them..
Except gambling on lottery tix -which is righteous because the state makes money off of it.
 
Norah Beth said:
think the best way to keep teenagers and other people my age from smoking is to help continuing educating them on the bad things that it can do to your body, how addition works and how it compares to other things in your life that can give you a good perspective, peer pressure from your friends not to smoke, and parents, teachers, and coaches that you may look up to that set a good example.
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You think teaching basic arithmetic will curb smoking?
 
Legion Troll said:
I laugh when self-proclaimed advocates of states rights get up in arms because the elected representatives of a state enacted a regulation that the elected governor of that state signed into law.

It's especially hilarious when they don't even live in that state.
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I'm not up in arms about it, California can do what they want. I was just giving my personal opinion on the topic. I don't think changing the age will help that much.
 
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