Should the smoking aged be raised from 18 to 21

A recent PublicMind poll of Garden State residents conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University further reinforces the need to maintain the current minimum legal drinking age. So should smoking, eating unhealthy food, and climbing ladders. This has increased at an exponential rate since I have been in the field.

In the long run, all non-tobacco ingredients should be restricted, leaving tobacco manufacturers free to mix only different styles of tobacco leaves or stems.

I just dropped my 18 year old off for her first year of college. If anything it needs to go up. If you punish the masses for the mistakes of a few you don't solve the problem.

I currently live in Germany and the legal age here is Drunk driving, in particular, is far too common a hazard to allow the underage this needless license. Indeed, places that raised age restrictions have witnessed a decline in smoking prevalence among their youth.

Not to mention the fact that it is blatant age discrimination. Anything that might harm us should be banned. Steve Hughes, editor-in-chief of The Bolton Newssaid: These three factors can help mitigate the reduced enjoyment from smoking that some low-income people facing an increased tobacco tax might experience.

Thus, it would only make sense that the legal drinking age, should this be the larger of the two issues, should be raised to It may also help reduce bing drinking at house parties if they had a public place to hang out and most 18 year old don't have enough excess cash to get loaded at a bar.

What is more, drinking and driving is strongly correlated with youth. Also known as "plain packaging", this requirement removes all branding elements colour, image, trademarks, logos and text and allows only the brand name in a standardised font, size and location on the pack.

Each year, smoking kills more than six million people, a tenth of them the innocent victims of second-hand smoke. Throw in the extensive training involved, and you get a very different experience than allowing a young adult to imbibe a bottle of Jim Beam and, potentially, engage in a host of deleterious acts.

The problem would spread as well. If we can teach our children respect for alcohol and drinking responsibly, then there would be no problem with allowing drinking at.

Image caption The legal age for buying cigarettes was raised from 16 to 18 in Teenage smoking rates in England have dropped since the legal age for buying cigarettes rose from 16 to The legal smoking age should be raised to 21 to cut the profits of "big tobacco", mining billionaire and anti-cancer campaigner Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest says.

The Eliminate Cancer Initiative (ECI. Jun 15,  · The smoking age raised to Discussion in 'The Okie Corral' started by Folsom_Prison, Jun 15, Thread Tools. Thread Tools. Print; Page 1 of 2 Current cigarette smoking was higher among persons aged 18–24 years, 25–44 years, and 45–64 years than among those aged 65 years and older.

THE legal age for buying tobacco is to be raised from 16 to 18, the Government announced yesterday. Public Health Minister Caroline Flint said the new law would come into effect from October 1.

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fatalities for young people ages 18 to 20 since the drinking age was raised to 21 in the ’s. age has reduced traffic fatalities involving drivers aged 18 to 20 years old by 13 percent nationwide.

The only issue I have with their study on how the change in age >21 drinking law resulted in less alcohol related incidents on the road is that they should really be focusing on the age group and not the whole picture.

Should the smoking aged be raised from 18 to 21