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Late Wednesday, Brown signed the bill raising the age for tobacco use, including vaping, to 21, the Associated Press reports. He also vetoed a bill that would have asked voters to divert tobacco taxes to pay for the health expenses of those with tobacco-related ailments, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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California's Legal Smoking Age Set to Rise to 21
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Friday May 06 2016, @05:06PM
Just like the ever-increasing nuttiness about buzzed driving, abortion, guns, transgenderism, and a whole slew of other things, the right answer isn't "there ought to be a stronger law" but to tell these mortal crusaders and I-know-what's-good-for-you health Nazis to go pound sand. Freedom, if it means anything at all, is to be able to do what one pleases provided it does not harm others.
I don't agree with the age limits, if you are able to be drafted into the military, whether you are or not, you should be old enough to buy cigarettes or alcohol or participate in any other adult activity. That said, smokers have brought this upon themselves with their own poor behavior. Smoking in the presence of others certainly causes annoyance and physical irritation at best, and genuine harm in chronic situations. Not only that, there is the tendency of smokers to consider the whole world their ash tray. Any designated smoking area will be, unless cleaned up frequently, littered with cigarette butts even if ashtrays are provided. I remember a much ballyhooed sidewalk project in a city where I lived, the day they opened the new sidewalks I visited and was disgusted by the number of cigarette butts already littering the ground. Then of course you have the tossing of lit cigarettes from cars because they don't want to dirty their pristine ashtrays...