The proposal was announced this morning by City Council speaker Christine Quinn and the NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley. The law would give NYC the highest legal smoking age. Four states — Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey and Utah — and a handful of scattered municipalities currently place that age at 19.
“By delaying our city’s young adults access to lethal tobacco products we’re decreasing the likelihood they ever start smoking,” Tweeted Quinn about the proposal. “By raising [the] smoking age limit to 21, no [high school] student will be able to purchase cigs & hand them to younger classmates.”
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you can get married, fight for your country, drive and the list goes on and on but you can't legally drink alcohol or smoke until you are 21? Something is wrong with this picture. Under 18, no rights. Over 18, no rights.
What a load..you can die for your country at eighteen
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