{"id":39420,"date":"2013-10-31T06:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/new-york-city-raises-the-cigarette-sale-age.html"},"modified":"2013-11-01T10:36:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:36:45","slug":"new-york-city-raises-the-cigarette-sale-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/new-york-city-raises-the-cigarette-sale-age.html","title":{"rendered":"New York City raises the cigarette sale age"},"content":{"rendered":"
NYC will raise the age at which people can buy cigarettes from 18 to 21.<\/p>\n

The only good thing about this is that it brings the age in line with the age of drinking. \u00a0But, c'mon, folks — if someone can enroll in the military and get married and take on a full-time job and vote for President and sign legal contracts … then I think we really need to leave the question of whether they ought to be smoking (or, for that matter, drinking) to them as well. \u00a0<\/p>\n

And, yes, that's all dangerous, with possible life-changing consequences\u00a0— but so are all those other things I mentioned. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I am no fan of smoking, by any means — but I can't cognitively justify this.<\/p><\/div>\n

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New York to raise cigarette sale age<\/a><\/p>\n

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NYC will raise the age at which people can buy cigarettes from 18 to 21. The only good thing about this is that it brings the age in line with the age of drinking. \u00a0But, c'mon, folks — if someone can enroll in the military and get married and take on a full-time job and … Continue reading “New York City raises the cigarette sale age”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,371,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-war-on-drugs","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30758,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/colorado-ballot-propositions-2012-amendment-24.html","url_meta":{"origin":39420,"position":0},"title":"Colorado Ballot Propositions 2012: Amendment 64","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Oct-12 10:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the one making all the national news: Legalized Marijuana. 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