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Because Christmas gifts of stupid shit are a grand holiday tradition!
Included as part of a massive government spending bill largely concerned with defense spending, this comes largely in response to a manufactured crisis of nefarious vape-pens corrupting the youth of today and making them into deviants who loiter in parking lots and play their music too loud among other evil deeds of similar horrific consequences.
Personally I'm of the mind that the age of majority should actually mean something and the ages for any of these 'adult' activities as denoted (smoking, drinking, signing contracts, enlisting in the military, etc.) should--and even further in any just system must--be the same, and because of a US Amendment putting the voting age at 18, that's where these affairs should be set--at the very least on the federal level.
What say other folks? Am I all kooky? Does someone want to justify this? Other folks out there in different countries that handle things differently for better or worse?
US raises legal age to buy cigarettes, vapes to 21
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a sweeping spending bill into law, including a provision that prohibits the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21.
www.cnn.com
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a sweeping spending bill into law, including a measure that prohibits the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21.
Included as part of a massive government spending bill largely concerned with defense spending, this comes largely in response to a manufactured crisis of nefarious vape-pens corrupting the youth of today and making them into deviants who loiter in parking lots and play their music too loud among other evil deeds of similar horrific consequences.
Personally I'm of the mind that the age of majority should actually mean something and the ages for any of these 'adult' activities as denoted (smoking, drinking, signing contracts, enlisting in the military, etc.) should--and even further in any just system must--be the same, and because of a US Amendment putting the voting age at 18, that's where these affairs should be set--at the very least on the federal level.
What say other folks? Am I all kooky? Does someone want to justify this? Other folks out there in different countries that handle things differently for better or worse?