{"id":1935,"date":"2014-02-22T20:15:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2014-06-26T05:51:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T05:51:10","slug":"colorado-utah-consider-raising-the-age-for-buying-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"Colorado, Utah consider raising the age for buying cigarettes to 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/teen-smoking.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1940\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=1940\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/teen-smoking.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"teen smoking\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/teen-smoking.jpg?fit=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1940\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/teen-smoking.jpg?resize=275%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"teen smoking\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting, <a href=\"http:\/\/kdvr.com\/2014\/02\/20\/colorado-legislators-consider-bill-to-raise-age-for-buying-cigarettes\/\">Colorado,<\/a>\u00a0the state that legalized recreational pot is considering raising the legal age for buying tobacco products to 21. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/a4dc33daf9294cf9bff67bcc730b7df0\/UT-XGR--Utah-Smoking-Age\">Utah<\/a> is considering similar legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kdvr.com\/2014\/02\/20\/colorado-legislators-consider-bill-to-raise-age-for-buying-cigarettes\/#ooid=llMGpyazru3x1xOQYmbjj_NOiovo7plu\">Report on Colorado bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, don&#8217;t have a strong opinion on this. I see the logic behind making 21 the legal age for alcohol, because too many 18- and 19-year-olds are still too stupid to know how to use alcohol responsibly &#8212; <em>supposedly,<\/em> a certain percentage of those dumb kids will be smarter at 21 to know not to get plastered and drive, etc. Supposedly. But, since tobacco isn&#8217;t really an intoxicant, that argument doesn&#8217;t wash.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose you could make the argument that most kids by the time they are 21 know better to even get started with cigarette smoking, but most kids get started anyway when they&#8217;re 15 or 16. Perhaps those kids who are just smoking a handful of cigarettes a day, start buying their own packs at 18, and by the time they&#8217;re 20, they&#8217;re addicted to the nicotine. Perhaps, a certain percentage of those kids never get addicted to begin with because by 21, they&#8217;re smart enough to know cigarettes are stupid. I mean, very, very few people actually start smoking after the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, lobbyists representing mini marts and convenience stores are opposing both bills. I&#8217;m not a <em>total<\/em> socialist weasel, but I can&#8217;t feel too much sympathy for retailers on this one. Hey, really, you want to keep making money selling cigs to 18-year-olds? Raising the price of beer by 5 cents and gasoline by 1 cent per gallon ought to make up for the lost revenues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting, Colorado,\u00a0the state that legalized recreational pot is considering raising the legal age for buying tobacco products to 21. Utah is considering similar legislation. Report on Colorado bill Honestly, don&#8217;t have a strong opinion on this. I see the logic behind making 21 the legal age for alcohol, because too many 18- and 19-year-olds are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colorado, Utah consider raising the age for buying cigarettes to 21<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[57,66],"tags":[230,188,231],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smoking-2","category-teen-smoking","tag-colorado","tag-teen-smoking-2","tag-utah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/teen-smoking.jpg?fit=275%2C183&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-vd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3305,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3305","url_meta":{"origin":1935,"position":0},"title":"California moves toward raising smoking age to 21","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"June 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"California is the latest state that is seriously considering raising the smoking age from 18 to 21. 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