04-19-2019, 12:37 AM
(04-19-2019, 12:31 AM)Kyng Wrote:I agree that 18 should be the age of majority, but because they keep on raising things to 21, 18 is losing all actual meaning.(04-19-2019, 12:25 AM)Lurker101 Wrote:True, but I'm personally not in favour of changing the age of majority to 21, and I don't think "protecting 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds from tobacco (and maintaining the current protections against them drinking alcohol)" is a good enough reason to raise the age of majority.(04-19-2019, 12:21 AM)Kyng Wrote: It turns out it's not just the UK looking at this. Over in the USA, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has introduced a bill to raise the legal smoking age to 21:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47982024
While I can certainly see the sense in bringing the smoking age into like with the drinking age, I'd personally prefer for the drinking age to be lowered to 18 instead, as I stated previously.
As I said before if they want to do that, they just need to change the age of majority to 21. Other wise we are telling people "You can fight and die for the country, you can vote for your leaders, you can sign up for crippling debt (both student loans, credit cards, and other loans) but we don't trust you to drink or smoke".
By the time people reach age 18, I think they should be well-informed enough to be able to decide for themselves whether to drink alcohol and smoke tobacco. (And, if they aren't well-informed enough, then the education on such matters needs to be improved - rather than just raising the age, which I see as a sticking plaster rather than an actual solution)
In the US you can't legally own a handgun or be a cop until 21 (Assuming the state allows it), you can't legally drink (outside of some state's exceptions) until 21, now in some states and even cities you can't smoke until 21, some states in the US the age of majority is actually 19 (Alabama and Nebraska).
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