{"id":2864,"date":"2015-01-25T00:59:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2015-01-25T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T00:59:11","slug":"washington-attorney-general-proposes-raising-smoking-age-to-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2864","title":{"rendered":"Washington attorney general proposes raising smoking age to 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/18-year-old-smoker.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2865\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=2865\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/18-year-old-smoker.jpg?fit=194%2C259&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"194,259\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"18-year-old smoker\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/18-year-old-smoker.jpg?fit=194%2C259&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2865 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/18-year-old-smoker.jpg?resize=194%2C259&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"18-year-old smoker\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/18-year-old-smoker.jpg?w=194&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/18-year-old-smoker.jpg?resize=75%2C100&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/18-year-old-smoker.jpg?resize=150%2C200&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an issue where I tend to split off from a lot of anti-tobacco advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/01\/washington-state-attorney-general-seeks-to-raise-smoking-age-to-21\/comments\/#disqus\">announced a bill <\/a>last week to raise the smoking age in Washington from 18 to 21. It&#8217;s an effort I can&#8217;t totally get behind for several reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, when do most kids start smoking? Virtually no kids actually start smoking when they turn 18. Most kids start smoking at 14 or 15 or even younger. So, I have to question if such a law would get much accomplished in stopping kids from smoking. Most kids have already been smoking for at least three or four years by the time they turn 18. Putting off the legal age for buying cigarettes another three years isn&#8217;t going to change that.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I have a Libertarian enough streak that I buy the argument that at 18 kids can vote, join the military and go to prison for committing a crime. They can do anything except buy alcohol or weed &#8212; and I have a \u00a0Socialist enough streak to see the logic behind laws trying to keep alcohol away from 18- and 19-year-olds, because 18-year-olds aren&#8217;t smart enough yet to know when they&#8217;ve had too much to drive, etc. (Like everyone over 21 is, but you see my point.).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m all for keeping kids from cigarettes, but the best tactic is education, and spending resources on educating kids on why tobacco is bad, rather than\u00a0spending resources trying to enforce a new law.\u00a0 I&#8217;m for common-sense solutions that I think will actually accomplish something, and I don&#8217;t see the common sense in raising the smoking age to 21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an issue where I tend to split off from a lot of anti-tobacco advocates. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced a bill last week to raise the smoking age in Washington from 18 to 21. It&#8217;s an effort I can&#8217;t totally get behind for several reasons. First of all, when do most kids &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washington attorney general proposes raising smoking age to 21<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66,426,425],"tags":[188,427],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teen-smoking","category-washington","category-youth-smoking","tag-teen-smoking-2","tag-washington"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/college-kids-smoking.jpg?fit=276%2C183&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-Kc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3305,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3305","url_meta":{"origin":2864,"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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