Smoking Age 16?

I heard some kids today complaining that the smoking/chewing age should be lowered to 16. If there old enough to drive then they are old enough to smoke. I'm not some big time pro smoker, but I think smoking is no worse than eating a value meal at McDonalds.

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There is no legal smoking age as far as I know. You have to be a certain age to buy tobacco products, and its illegal to sell/ buy for minors, but if you just give the stuff to them, its ok.

And honestly, why is smoking even still legal?

sporx wrote:

I think smoking is nasty.

amen, pretty much all my friends smoke and ive been offered cigarettes before, i always say no because they dont realize what its doing to them, i do. plus, i like not having random coughing fits

choopie911 wrote:

There is no legal smoking age as far as I know. You have to be a certain age to buy tobacco products, and its illegal to sell/ buy for minors, but if you just give the stuff to them, its ok.

And honestly, why is smoking even still legal?

Individual liberty. I'm utterly opposed to smoking, and I think it should be illegal to smoke in public or around your kids- but if you want to subejct your self to it it is neither my place nor the government's to tell you you can't. I disagree with a lot of laws and conventions on these grounds.

That being said, our health care system and/or taxes need to be amended to accommodate smoking related diseases. I think they should calculate the cost per annum to the public healthcare system of smoking, and assess that as a tax on cigarettes- divide the total cost by the total number of packs of cigarettes sold, and apply the tax that way, on top of the taxes that are already there.

I will defend a person's right to smoke in their own privacy, but I reject my forcibly-assumed-through-taxes responsibility to pay for their healthcare when it bites them in the ass.

"Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation."

-FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011.

Yup, he actually said that.

I do enjoy the occasional cigarette.

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Panda Man wrote:

Well I think, since I'm old enough to Elect a president, and go Die for my Country I should be allowed to go to a Bar, but thats not going to happen.

amen

NASA and the Americans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to develop a pen that would write in space.....The Russians used a pencil.

Smoking is cool.

Smoking is dumb.

Smoking gets you girls, fast cars and big bags of cash.

people still call stuff hip?