DarkSoulFood

Why should I care?

Everyone who has ever smoked as a kid knows the issue is forbidden fruit and changing the legal age limit doesn't stop the appeal.

No more than banning fruity flavors will do anything because cigarettes tasted like shit before we had ecigarettes and we still had a problem with teens wanting to smoke them.

The extension of the age limit makes it harder for a young person to sustain the habit. It was easy to bum cigarettes off cooks when I was a 16 year old dishwasher. The hard part was when it turned into a pack a day habit and I had to find people to buy them for me in volume until I turned 18. It'll be even more of a pain in the ass to keep that up until 21.

It will be a good thing and you seem to be making a lot of assumptions on what they didn't do to create an overly nefarious narrative.

Asking hard questions of stories like this is actually a civic responsibility, to be honest. His tone might have been direct, but everything he asked was on point.

The OP admitted in another response that he used McConnell's name to attract attention, even though it's a bi-partisan bill.

Everyone is using rage to get views and it's fueling the division. There was a lot about this article that needed to be called out and I'm glad people have.