It's now illegal to sell tobacco products to people under 21

[Daserop]

I didn't know this was happening.

https://www.wndu.com/content/news/566498521.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...-fda-raises-age-buy-tobacco-18-21/2753807001/

 

[Rabbuk]

Looks like enforcement starts middle of next year though

 

[cyclonespiker33]

This is kind of interesting for people that are 18 now that were able to legally purchase them before but can no longer legally purchase them for three years.

 

[gocy444]

It blows my mind that young people still pick up smoking with all the anti smoking ads that are out there. Smells like crap, expensive and destroys your body.

 

[mj4cy]

This is kind of interesting for people that are 18 now that were able to legally purchase them before but can no longer legally purchase them for three years.

Haven't looked into it, but sometimes in these cases they have a "grandfathered in" type clause.

 

[CascadeClone]

This is kind of interesting for people that are 18 now that were able to legally purchase them before but can no longer legally purchase them for three years.

I believe my dad was in the same boat when they raised the drinking age from 18 to 21. IIRC they were grandfathered in, so there were 19 yo who could drink even tho the law was 21. Of course, it was all good after 3 years....

 

[Rabbuk]

I believe my dad was in the same boat when they raised the drinking age from 18 to 21. IIRC they were grandfathered in, so there were 19 yo who could drink even tho the law was 21. Of course, it was all good after 3 years....

This happened to my dad as well. I think you're right.

 

[ClonesFTW]

No more cigars on prom night I guess.

 

[SCyclone]

It blows my mind that young people still pick up smoking with all the anti smoking ads that are out there. Smells like crap, expensive and destroys your body.

I smoked for 25+ years. Quit when they told me I had cancer, caused by tobacco. Best thing that ever happened to me.

Now? I see people standing outside smoking, all types of weather, looking like outcasts of society. I hate being around smokers, my clothing and hair stinks and the smell makes me nauseous.

Hard to believe that in 1946 three out of every four adult males in the U.S. smoked cigarettes. Can you imagine what restaurants must have been like then? Movie theaters? Bars? Yikes.

 

[STATE12]

I believe my dad was in the same boat when they raised the drinking age from 18 to 21. IIRC they were grandfathered in, so there were 19 yo who could drink even tho the law was 21. Of course, it was all good after 3 years....

That's kind of interesting as I think about it more...

Age raised I assume to protect 18-21 year olds from themselves and making poor decisions.

Obviously other things get grandfathered in all of the time (first that comes to mind is construction/home building, you don't have to update your home with every new change in code that comes out). Frequent construction changes would be costly to homeowners to be required every time (cost being the result from each change). But the fix for tobacco is...you just can't buy it anymore (no major cost or other influence I can think of like other things to be grandfathered in).

So it's a hazard for those soon to enter that age range but not to the ones currently in it (just because you are currently in it)...

 

[Mr Janny]

It blows my mind that young people still pick up smoking with all the anti smoking ads that are out there. Smells like crap, expensive and destroys your body.

I smoked for over a decade. I don't know about anyone else, but for me it started as rebellion I suppose. Drinking and smoking in high school was fun because you weren't supposed to do it. Nobody was under the illusion that it wasn't bad for you or that it wasn't addictive. People still did it anyway. I suspect that's still true for a lot of people who start smoking. But, at least for me, even though I knew it was addictive, I didn't know what addiction really was because I'd never felt it before. I remember having this moment of clarity once, when I came to the realization that "I NEED this now" and it scared the crap out of me. But I still smoked for another 10 years after that.

I watched my father succumb to alcoholism, and I would say that's clearly more destructive than nicotine, but smoking is very very difficult to get away from.

I'm fine with laws like this, because with as easy as it is to get hooked, any kind of deterrent to keep a few more people from starting is okay in my book.

 

[theshadow]

This is just a knee-jerk reaction to vaping.

Either you're an adult at 18 (military, voting), or you're not (alcohol, tobacco). Can't keep moving the goalposts.

 

[chuckd4735]

There are quite a few municipalities across the country that were already doing this. The wave it the KC area a few years ago, and most of the cities down there made it illegal to purchase until you were 21 (however, I believe you could still possess at 18). Here is the website: https://tobacco21.org/

 

[CoachHines3]

jeez whats next prostitution to 21 too?

 

[Drew0311]

So dumb. I mean I don't smoke or use the products. However, if they are going to move everything to 21 they need to move the right to join our military to 21. Basically by saying you can join our military and fight but you are not old enough to smoke, drink, or chew.

 

[Shawker]

I think any steps toward reducing smoking is a good thing. My first two years in college you could still smoke in bars and my clothes would just reek of smoke but I didn't really think anything of it because that's just how it was. Now I catch a whiff of one cigarette walking down the sidewalk and I find it repulsive.

 

[isuno1fan]

This is smart.

should do the same for energy drinks.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I smoked for 25+ years. Quit when they told me I had cancer, caused by tobacco. Best thing that ever happened to me.

Now? I see people standing outside smoking, all types of weather, looking like outcasts of society. I hate being around smokers, my clothing and hair stinks and the smell makes me nauseous.

Hard to believe that in 1946 three out of every four adult males in the U.S. smoked cigarettes. Can you imagine what restaurants must have been like then? Movie theaters? Bars? Yikes.

I quit 23 years ago. I don't miss it at all now. I'm surprised there are states where you can still smoke in bars.
About 4 years ago I was at a Denny's in West Virginia and it was like going back in time 30 years where you asked for no smoking and they just walked you through the smoke to the back of the restaurant.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

I believe my dad was in the same boat when they raised the drinking age from 18 to 21. IIRC they were grandfathered in, so there were 19 yo who could drink even tho the law was 21. Of course, it was all good after 3 years....

The drinking limit was raised from 18 to 19, and then 19 to 21. If you were born 1959 or before, you were allowed to drink when you hit 18. If you were born Jan. 1960, or later, the age was 19. My brother was born in Oct. of 59, so he could legally drink in high school after hitting 18, some of his classmates born in 60, had to wait a whole another year, till they could legally purchase alcohol.

I had to wait until I was 19 to drink, not sure when the law was passed to move it up to 21.

 

[Dr.bannedman]

The drinking limit was raised from 18 to 19, and then 19 to 21. If you were born 1959 or before, you were allowed to drink when you hit 18. If you were born Jan. 1960, or later, the age was 19. My brother was born in Oct. of 59, so he could legally drink in high school after hitting 18, some of his classmates born in 60, had to wait a whole another year, till they could legally purchase alcohol.

I had to wait until I was 19 to drink, not sure when the law was passed to move it up to 21.

oh so you are a boomer.