TIL: the smoking age was raised to 21
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You can die for your government, but they won't let you buy cigarettes or beer.
Amazing.
Like most disgusting vices, if you don't pick this garbage up until later in life, you tend not to pick it up at all.
I'm very libertarian on most things, but goddamnit will I put on my brown shirt and baby stomping boots to enforce the utter destruction of drugs and alcohol consumption in the world. Stop getting drunk and high, you fuckwads.
Alcohol for chemistry and medicine only. Tobacco plant extracts for medicine only. Cannabinoid extracts for medicine only. So on and so forth.
Authoritarian prohibition and violent enforcement only leads to Barbara Streisand effects and illegal underground profiteers. Increasing the availabillity of drugs and alcohol, and even worse criminal stuff. Child sex trafficking wouldn't be as much of a thing if actual prostitution was legal.
What will rememedy the matter is education.Parental, State, and Private. Facts and consequences being made known to the general public. So they'll decide themselves that they shouldn't be doing it.