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We don't send them. They volunteer. And 99.9% of them will never see combat.
They still have to sign up for the draft.
We don't send them. They volunteer. And 99.9% of them will never see combat.
The problem there is, people politically supportive of smoking bans and high taxes love to claim the entire bill for treating those conditions across society as the costs of smoking even though many people who do not smoke will develop heart disease and lung cancer and the majority of costs are born by private insurance and not the public. So the reality is, tobacco taxes for a state legislature are free money. Just like the lottery, the Feds are covering the welfare benefits while the benificiaries are spending their disposable income on lottery tickets
They still have to sign up for the draft.
That sets a dangerous precedent, IMO. It's already bad enough that sin taxes are always foisted upon the politically weak. Who's next? Will it be something that you or I do*? I hate sin taxes as a general concept, but they would be easier for me to accept if the proceeds stayed wholly with the "sin". To me, additional insurance costs probably has more legitimate merit, but it's still a form of sin tax.
*- I do not smoke, never have, but I do believe that we treat smokers unnecessarily shabbily and with a great deal of inequality.
Even in the event of a draft (which, today, would only happen if our existence as a nation was threatened), 99.9% will never see combat.
People need to spare us the "sent to war" line. For 999 out of 1000 enlistees, that's a stateside or REMF job.
I don't see why the government hasn't figured out that age restriction laws on goods and services don't work. Raise your hand if you drank alcohol before you were 21.
We don't want kids in the bar. Maybe you do, but we don't.
Being drafted is being drafted.
They will just drink elsewhere. Age restriction laws on alcohol have never worked.
I don't see why the government hasn't figured out that age restriction laws on goods and services don't work. Raise your hand if you drank alcohol before you were 21.
What part of "we don't want kids in the bar" did you not understand?
18 is no longer a kid.
What part of "we don't want kids in the bar" did you not understand?
How old are you? They sure are to me.
So you just don't want drinking in the bar, but you're not bothered by them drinking other places?
In almost all states the age of majority is eighteen.
Sounds like an argument for prohibition. The cost is too high.When we will pay for their oxygen tanks and 30k to 50k a month for lung cancer treatments, I find it hard to believe that on balance smokers are treated shabbily.
If they're 18, they can vote. If they don't like the law, they can advocate against it, before or after it is passed.Oregon Senate approves raising legal tobacco age to 21
Just stupid, why should legal adults not be permitted to purchase a legal product? Why not just ban the retail sale of tobacco period if smoking is so bad?
If they're 18, they can vote. If they don't like the law, they can advocate against it, before or after it is passed.
Tobacco should be outlawed; it's an addictive carcinogen, after all. However, there are still too many smokers in the US for that to happen. It's better to chip away at it. Death by a thousand cuts.
If they're 18, they can vote. If they don't like the law, they can advocate against it, before or after it is passed.
Tobacco should be outlawed; it's an addictive carcinogen, after all. However, there are still too many smokers in the US for that to happen. It's better to chip away at it. Death by a thousand cuts.
Oregon Senate approves raising legal tobacco age to 21
Just stupid, why should legal adults not be permitted to purchase a legal product? Why not just ban the retail sale of tobacco period if smoking is so bad?
You mean at least you're keeping them out of regulated establishments where it is illegal to overserve where there's cameras and security measures and there's people who can summon emergency services for someone who's had too much?Did you manage to lose the context established by your claim? I can understand dropping other people's context, but your own made seconds ago? What the hell. They're gonna drink other places. There's no stopping that. But let's at least keep them out of adult drinking establishments.
You mean at least you're keeping them out of regulated establishments where it is illegal to overserve where there's cameras and security measures and there's people who can summon emergency services for someone who's had too much?
Being drafted is being drafted.