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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
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« on: April 27, 2015, 04:36:27 PM »

The problem with the alcohol comparison is alcohol is fun and tobacco isn't. If underage just drink illegally (not like getting alcohol is difficult) instead of smoking.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
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« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2015, 07:56:11 AM »

So then working class people who don't smoke don't have a true "working class life"?
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
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Posts: 113,070
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2015, 08:44:26 AM »

The majority of smokers are working class. Every increase in cigarette taxes and every step toward making the product harder and harder to get is a step toward the further criminalization of working class life.

I think you're viewing the issue to narrowly, if anything these types of laws help working class people. As much as smoking may define 'working class life'

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What the hell? There are hordes of working class people who don't smoke. Probably a majority based on smoking rates in general actually.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
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Posts: 113,070
Ukraine


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« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2015, 11:05:43 AM »
« Edited: April 28, 2015, 11:07:35 AM by I left my heart in the back of the cab »

I agree the drinking age should be 18 but tobacco isn't a good substitute. When I was under 21 it just made me MORE mad I could use a finksing disgusting drug that wasn't even remotely fun but not fun things like marijuana and alcohol. Underage drinking is so much cooler and more fun than smoking at any age.

Do the fun things like marijuana and alcohol and just completely ignore the disgusting trash that is tobacco, regardless of legality.
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