Texas raises the legal smoking age

[tfurrh]

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/08/20/texas-raised-legal-smoking-age/

Texans will soon have to wait until their 21st birthday to buy tobacco and nicotine products products — with the exception of young military members.

Sen. Joan Huffman, a Republican from Houston, said she crafted Senate Bill 21, which takes effect Sept. 1, hoping that it would keep cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and tobacco products out of public schools by creating more “social distance” between younger students and students old enough to purchase them. In Texas, nearly 12% of high school students smoke cigarettes, and 19% use e-cigarettes, according to data from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

"If we can have [kids] leave high school tobacco and nicotine free, that's a huge win," said Jennifer Cofer, director of the End Tobacco Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

The original bill didn't exempt military members, but that changed after some Republican resistance in both the House and Senate. More than 12,500 active-duty troops ages 18 to 20 live in Texas, according to The Dallas Morning News.

[TheCount]

Because no one ever smokes or drinks before it's legal for them to do so.

[dannno]

In Texas, nearly 12% of high school students smoke cigarettes, and 19% use e-cigarettes, according to data from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

Uh, ya, those two intersect.. the kids who smoke cigs also vape, but they can vape at school in the bathrooms or wherever without being detected as easily, then they can smoke cigs if they want when there is less of a chance of getting caught.

It's not like 31% of high school kids are using nicotine.. it's still 19%, which is about what it has always been.

https://i.huffpost.com/gen/2754572/thumbs/o-TEEN-SMOKING-RATES-570.jpg

The graph above is for cigarettes. Their usage has fallen off of a cliff since vaping has become more popular, and that is a good thing.

[Stratovarious]

At 18 , you're an adult, but not really and adult, they can hang you but they don't want you to smoke.....

They should raise the age our govt can send them off to die in MIC wars, to 35, replace them with Senators,
Senator's sons and daughters, Congress etc.....only when they are all mia and dead should we allow
them to send ours.

[dannno]

They should raise the age our govt can send them off to die in MIC wars, to 35, replace them with Senators,
Senators sons and daughters, Congress etc.....only when they are all mia and dead should we allow
them to send ours.


Texans will soon have to wait until their 21st birthday to buy tobacco and nicotine products products — with the exception of young military members.


They tried to neuter that argument.

[Anti Globalist]

Guess Texans don't care about freedom as much as they say they do. No matter. People under 21 will just get someone old enough to buy cigarettes for them.

[oyarde]

Sounds like the Indian Territory might get increasing tobacco sales .

[Schifference]

PAF could perform civil disobedience and set up shop on a busy corner selling loosies. Might even get some illegal alien immigrants that work for him to sell them for him. Have workers every 5 or so blocks. The kind that work for free market wages.

[Anti Federalist]

Make Tobacco Legal Again

[Schifference]

Make Tobacco Legal Again

Only legal to die from gluttony.

[Anti Globalist]

Sounds like the Indian Territory might get increasing tobacco sales .
Then this is a perfect opportunity for you to make some profit.

[tfurrh]

Because no one ever smokes or drinks before it's legal for them to do so.

Americans don't really have ceremonies for coming of age like a quinceañera or bar mitzvah, but where I'm from, when you turned 18, you went to the gas station and bought a scratch-off, magazine, and a pack of smokes.

I don't understand Texas sometimes. They just inadvertently legalized cannabis, and then do something like this.

[Anti Federalist]

I don't understand Texas sometimes. They just inadvertently legalized cannabis, and then do something like this.

Baffling...inhaling the smoke from this minuscule speck of smoldering, ground up, plant matter is cool, progressive, and cures more ailments than Carter's Pills.

Inhaling the smoke from this minuscule speck of smoldering, ground up, plant matter makes you worse than Hitler.