21 is the new 18???

[RogueBallBoy]

So I check half wheel pretty regularly, and I've noticed that more often than not the latest news involves towns raising their minimum age for tobacco purchases to 21. These regulations usually involve controlling ejuice and flavored cigars as well. It gets me thinking; like how is this relevant to anyone's life? Who stays up worrying about 20 year Olds buying butts? Or grape swishers? Meanwhile these same towns are busy licensing marijuana dispensaries. I begrudge nobody their bud, but sometimes this just seems silly. Tobacco is not a health food, I get that, but it seems to be everybody's whipping boy these days.

[Tobias Lutz]

I've never been cool with arming young men and women to go kill and/or be killed in our defense, yet not allowing them to drink when they come back home. This is just plain stupid, IMO.

[NewYorker]

I've never been cool with arming young men and women to go kill and/or be killed in our defense, yet not allowing them to drink when they come back home. This is just plain stupid, IMO.

I completely agree with you on this!

[RogueBallBoy]

I've never been cool with arming young men and women to go kill and/or be killed in our defense, yet not allowing them to drink when they come back home. This is just plain stupid, IMO.

Exactly! You can legally buy a gun, and borrow half a million dollars to mortgage a house, get married and have children, but you are not old enough to buy a Padron???

[AlanS]

Bill it's not smoke it's idiot repellant!

[Lynn]

Ive been watching this all my life, and thank god it's not my problem anymore...its the political corrects problem now and Im enjoying watching them go nuts. they are finally so far gone they are penalizing each others kids for the joy of inflecting some control over some others......

[Ropey]

Economics trumps freedom, every time.

[TCBSmokes]

My Masters on the brain is showing. I thought this thread would be about Jordan Spieth's win at age 21, and 1st of 18 majors to go. lol.

[TCBSmokes]

The drinking age in MA, and elsewhere, is 21, and I can't imagine there is none of that going on at the colleges except for possibly of-age seniors. With the extension to tobacco, the fake id business is just going to proliferate even more. And sadly, those who do imbibe, and get caught, will technically be criminals.

I just wonder if people who actually do wait 'til age 21 to have their very first drink (or tobacco product), then go overboard with their new found liberty, or actually have gained the maturity to not overindulge, or even not try anything then at all.

[TCBSmokes]

So I check half wheel pretty regularly, and I've noticed that more often than not the latest news involves towns raising their minimum age for tobacco purchases to 21. These regulations usually involve controlling ejuice and flavored cigars as well. It gets me thinking; like how is this relevant to anyone's life? Who stays up worrying about 20 year Olds buying butts? Or grape swishers? Meanwhile these same towns are busy licensing marijuana dispensaries. I begrudge nobody their bud, but sometimes this just seems silly. Tobacco is not a health food, I get that, but it seems to be everybody's whipping boy these days.

Well, of course they always have a "valid" reason. And for this it's because 18 yr. olds may still buy cigars (and beer) for minors, whereas 21 yr. olds are less likely to do so. And I agree, so much better we become a zombie nation with the other stuff. Odd indeed.