21 is the new 18???

[Engineer99]

It's all about imagery and the perception that an entity that goes after tobacco is somehow more compassionate and more worthy of your money and votes than another entity the allows adults the freedom to make their own choices. They're just looking out for you and the kids right? That's a big thing here in California that can persuade the populace to actually vote to raise taxes, because if you don't, the Kids will suffer and there'll be on police on the streets, etc...

It doesn't even compute to these people that want to control your every decision in life, that a person of a certain age is legally capable of so many things the privilege of adulthood brings, but cannot partake in other far less consequential things somebody 366 days older can....

[allusred]

It's all about imagery and the perception that an entity that goes after tobacco is somehow more compassionate and more worthy of your money and votes than another entity the allows adults the freedom to make their own choices. They're just looking out for you and the kids right? That's a big thing here in California that can persuade the populace to actually vote to raise taxes, because if you don't, the Kids will suffer and there'll be on police on the streets, etc...

It doesn't even compute to these people that want to control your every decision in life, that a person of a certain age is legally capable of so many things the privilege of adulthood brings, but cannot partake in other far less consequential things somebody 366 days older can....

So right. When young death's something that happens to others,the oldies. So perhaps caution is indicated when drinking AND driving. But tobacco? Whem fourteen, I could buy cigarettes over the counter at Midtown Drugs anytime.Hell,it was a Drug Store.After a couple of packs of Chesterfields or sweet Caporal,I quit cigarettes for good. Never a problem when I started smoking cigars daily three years later.Once into Cigars have just kept on keepin on these sixty three years.

[droy1958]

I imagine sugar and caffeine to be next on the list to regulate.....