Bill could raise smoking age to 21
Connecticut residents must wait until the age of 21 to buy alcohol, and they may soon face the same wait for cigarettes.
The Connecticut General Assembly’s Public Health Committee is considering a bill that would increase the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 — making the state the first in the country to adopt such a standard. The legislation, lauded by anti-smoking activists but publicly criticized by at least one tobacco company, was proposed by a Connecticut teenager this week and has already received support from the co-chair of the state’s Public Health...
i think this is just totally great!
this is a statement that is very remarkable. yet, that people choose to risk there lives with smoking. At any given minute there will be men, woman, CHILDREN dieing from smoking.If th smoking age is raised to 21, i am sure that there would be less smokers!
How would raising the age to 21 to anything? The people who smoke at 18 are doing nothing wrong and now will be going to their older brothers and sisters friends and family members to go and purchase cigs for them. No matter what age it goes up to, there will always be people going to the shop for their underage friends or family members. There waisting their time!!
I agree with this totally im for the same thing and i am also writting a persassive speech about this subject i know that if the age is rasied to 21 it will cut smokers down by half i suppose if you are interested in this please email mwe so we can make a difference billyr121@aol.com
well i totally agree for raising the age for smokers up to 21...its a great idea and lessw people would have health problems...
Raising the smoking age will not do anything. People have the ability to chose to smoke or not smoke. This ability to chose is what makes us Americans. Also, people will always find ways to get what they want. If this law is enacted, it will not discourage young smokers, but make them go to extremes to get what they desire.
WTF is woung with this gov't lets focus on more important issues.
this is crazy.. 18, 19, and 20 year olds who smoke are doing nothing wrong right now....and if they change the smoking age to 21, then alot of people will be selling illagaly to people under 21...it will also hurt the economy...this age thing will not cut the number of how many people smoke...they will still smoke... i know i will...and it is not to be a rebel, it is because i enjoy it, and am not addicted, i smoke maybe only a little less than a pack a week... i can understand you should limit how much a person under 21 can smoke.. but taking it away completely is like stopping cold turkey...and it just wont work...
thats is stupid they should just leave it the way it is its not like it hurts anybody anyways