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Oregon has joined California, Hawaii, Maine, and New Jersey in raising the minimum age limit for purchasing tobacco and related products to 21:
Oregon is raising the minimum age for buying tobacco and e-cigarettes in the state to 21, bringing its regulations into line with sales of marijuana products.
The new law, signed by Governor Kate Brown on Wednesday and taking effect on Jan. 1, bans under-21s from buying tobacco products and vaping devices, and makes vendors liable for fines for under-age sales.
The current age limit in the state is 18.
Previously: California's Legal Smoking Age Set to Rise to 21
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You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the
Titanic had paying customers.
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Friday August 11 2017, @08:56PM (21 children)
In another decade you will be able to give your kids THC/CBD in gradeschool to keep them from bugging teachers, in two decades it will be a requirement. Really tough being a teacher you know?
Naturally tobacco will be banned and distribution will be warrant the death penalty (Oregon will have to reconsider the death penalty due to how bad tobacco really is)
The BS that goes on in Oregon these days is really draining.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @09:24PM (9 children)
The sky is falling the sky is falling!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @09:56PM (2 children)
No, I think Sulla may just be too old to cope with the 21st century.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Sulla on Friday August 11 2017, @10:14PM (1 child)
The city that I live in banned smoking in indoors/bars/outside bars/parks/etc a decade or so ago, and is now considering allowing pot smoking in bars/some other locations to be a choice left up to the business. Seems weird to me that pot is getting more and more legal in a time when tobacco is getting more and more illegal, I think we are not far off pot being more legal than tobacco in some places.
27 year old cigar smoker
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday August 12 2017, @03:42PM
Considering how much less harmful pot is than any other drug, including aspirin, pot SHOULD be more legal than tobacco, except for those under 21 whose mental development suffers from it.
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(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 11 2017, @10:06PM (5 children)
Well, I am a nicotine user. I heard that the FDA decided that cigarettes are all going to be lite from some point forward.
Maybe I'll become a regular pipe smoker again or go back to rolling my own cigarettes. I know I really need to just quit. I've got a vaporizer I use at home, and I've tried gradually decreasing the nicotine level in my vape over time, but I just can't get away from it. Tried patches. Tried cold turkey. Can't do it. The state I live in sucks, my job sucks, this sucks, that sucks, … I just need my nicotine.
What I want to know is how, with proposals such as these, do they intend to help people who are hopelessly addicted, such as myself, overcome their nicotine addiction without creating a huge black market. I'm guessing the answer, like with the alcohol prohibition experiment, is: we're the government and fuck you.
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Friday August 11 2017, @10:48PM (2 children)
Just move closer to the south border, you can still buy a lot of good stuff in Mexico.
Come to think of it, there might be a market for the drug lords to include full-strength tobacco in their wares, so maybe you could buy Mexican or Cuban cigars and cigarettes from the same dealer. :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @02:00AM
Awww how adorable, you through in a nice smiley in there to gloss over the horrendous things cartels do to keep shitheads like you supplied with your contraband. Enjoy the warm-place asshole ;-)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 12 2017, @03:18AM
you can still buy a lot of good stuff in Mexico.
Hey man, got some primo R-12 [eenews.net].
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday August 12 2017, @03:44PM
The generic Nicorette Minis I get at Walgreens work well. You get your nicotine without the cancer causing substances in tobacco.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday August 13 2017, @04:40AM
One of my co-workers at my third job (yes, I have three...) said she was able to quit smoking when her doctor got her on Bupropion (Wellbutrin) Ye Pfft! of All Knowledge describes it as an "atypical antidepressant" and more germanely as a norepinephrine/dopamine reuptake inhibitor and an antagonist of nicotinic receptors, which may explain its use as a smoking-cessation treatment.
Have you asked a doctor about this?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Friday August 11 2017, @10:07PM (10 children)
The BS that goes on in Oregon these days is really draining.
Other than not being able to pump my own gasoline, I like things here in Oregon. I am not really sure what all this draining BS could be. Care to elaborate?
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 11 2017, @11:04PM (4 children)
Why can't you pump your own gas?
And... Lucky you! There's days in the winter here in Canada (or there used to be before global warming) when it would be bitter, bitter cold and you'd be standing there freezing your a** off pumping gas.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @12:09AM (3 children)
In oregon you need a special license to pump gas or something. It's dumb.
(Score: 2) by tekk on Saturday August 12 2017, @01:53AM (2 children)
I'm not sure it's dumb. It kind of makes sense that you should be licensed in dispensing the carcinogenic explosive liquid.
...Then again, I spent a good chunk of my life in new jersey, the only other state where you aren't allowed to pump your own gas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @01:59PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Tuesday August 15 2017, @05:09PM
I have an electric lawn mower, you insensitive clod!
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @02:02AM
Also cannot pump my own gas in NJ. But I'm largely OK with it, and most likely would opt for full service if self-service was available. Then again I hope to have an electric car in the future, and if these stupid fucks make it that I cannot charge it at home because "MUH JEBS" I will kill someone.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday August 12 2017, @03:49PM (3 children)
Why would you want to pump your own gasoline?? I remember a time when self-service didn't exist. I miss it. Often some dweeb has gotten it on the pump handle and you can't get the stink to wash off. Back when I was young, an attendant would pump your gas, clean your windshield, air up your tires and check your oil. Now you have to do all that nasty shit yourself--and pay for the air you have to use in your tires yourself, to boot.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 12 2017, @05:11PM (2 children)
Back when I was young, an attendant would pump your gas, clean your windshield, air up your tires and check your oil.
And we got free gifts... Some of those things became real collectors items. Too bad I didn't keep any of them.
Anyway if they're going to raise the drinking/smoking age, we should demand they raise the age for military conscription also, to 22, so we can eliminate the college deferment for all those rich kids.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday August 13 2017, @05:19PM (1 child)
They ended the draft in the 1970s.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday August 13 2017, @06:32PM
It has been merely suspended, in '72. It's still on the books to call back at any time. I still had to register, maybe they don't have to now.
One of the reasons they lowered the voting/drinking age to begin with was because a fuss was raised about the conscription age back when civil rights was still a thing.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..