21...that's the new age that people and legislators are going to start pushing for people to be able to buy tobacco products.
Heck, I can remember when you could go into a store/shop in just about anyplace in Texas at 14,15, even younger and the businessperson would sell you cigarettes, or chewing tobacco. They either thought it was for a parent or didn't care. A sale was a sale.
When I was in high school, there was a smoking area across the ditch at the high school I attended. High schoolers openly kept packs of Marlboros or Winstons on the desks or in their shirt pockets. No one cared. Heck, teachers smoked in the lounge.
Oh, the members of the House and Senate from Kentucky and Virginia and North Carolina will put up a fight, but sooner than you realize, you'll need to be 21 before you can buy tobacco.
I wonder if it will do any good? Or make youth want to smoke and dip even more? That forbidden fruit?
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