It's now illegal to sell tobacco products to people under 21
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It went from 19 to 21. I made the cut off because a bunch of state legislators got busted at a strip bar in Mingo causing basically nothing getting accomplished the entire session and the age increase was pushed back a year.
I turned 19 in October of 85. The raise to 21 kicked in July 1 of 86 I believe.
I think you should pass a test to have children.
If what you're trying to develop is discipline and gain a greater sense of service over self then yes. Your results may vary.
It is but it's not practical to make people wait that long so they settled on 21 I guess. I should have said that's the age that doctors agree our brain might be developed enough to drink.
The issue is it's a slow killer and non-smokers end up subsidizing their healthcare.
This country is going to hell. What’s next? Am I gonna need a drivers license to use my toaster?
I felt the same way as this up til about 5 years ago. Went with my son on an 8th grad DC trip and I was amazed how many of the parents could not go without drinking during the trip. It was a 24 hr bus ride and first thing that over 1/2 the parents did after getting off the bus was find a grocery or liquor store. These moms/dads were drinking hard also. Every night even when they were told to stop so the kids wouldn’t see it so much.
I started noticing these people when I was in convenience stores or the grocery store at the same time. Always had a case or handle in their cart at checkout.
I was legal to drink turning 18 in Feb of 1978. In June of 78 they raised legal age to 19. Sometime in 79 they raised it to 21. So I had highschool classmates that weren't legal for almost 4 years after I was.
I'm not really sure what I feel is right one way or the other. But what I do say is we need to decide what is an adult and what isnt. Either you are an adult at 18 or you are an adult at 21 or some other age. Which my feeling if they made it a standard age for all things, it would need to be something in the middle, maybe 20?
At some point telling men they are adults and can be drafted or join and die for their country but can't drink a beer or have a smoke, seems wrong.
I have no problem changing it one way or the other, but I think we need to make a consistent age and make all things involving adulthood that age.
In the same respect, with equality, at what point do women have to start registering with selective service like men do? I can see arguments both ways, and myself, being a man, but also having both as children it is an interesting debate.
At some point telling men they are adults and can be drafted or join and die for their country but can't drink a beer or have a smoke, seems wrong.
I have no problem changing it one way or the other, but I think we need to make a consistent age and make all things involving adulthood that age.
In the same respect, with equality, at what point do women have to start registering with selective service like men do? I can see arguments both ways, and myself, being a man, but also having both as children it is an interesting debate.
actually doctors now think our brains aren’t fully developed until 25.
