Today's Poll: Should the legal limit to buy cigarettes be age 21?

If our young people are able to make up their minds to go fight for our country at age 18 then they should be able to smoke or drink beer if they want ! Not saying it's healthy to do that but they should have the right to do so if they want .

"Raising the legal age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21 would save hundreds of thousands of lives and substantially reduce the number of smokers in the United States, a new report finds."

Poppycock!

It doesn't matter where you set the minimum age to buy alcohol or tobacco products, someone old enough will always buy for those who are not old enough.

How many teenage kids do you see smoking today?

9-10 years ago the Suffolk County Legislature set their own age within the county for buying tobacco products to 19. It hasn't curbed smoking one bit in the 13-17 age group down there at all.

They should set the minimum age to 100 to buy tobacco products. We would have an healthier Society minus all the problems that this pox on humanity brings.

Karen. Just wanted to thank you for editing the last sentence of your comment. When I first read it, I ALMOST pointed out the (contradiction?) of your words, but I didn't. Even then, I assumed you actually meant what you have changed it to. So I said nothing. I figured, there's no sense in me catching 'flak' for being labeled as 'the word police'.

I fully agree with what you wrote. As for linking our armed forces & smoking, I'll tell you a short (true) story.
In 1969, I was in boot camp at Parris Island. They had allowed the 'smokers' to buy 1 carton of cigs the first week we were there. When we got back to the barracks that day, they confiscated all the cartons (labeled with our names), and told us THEY would decide when we would have 'earned' the privilage to have one. It was 5 weeks before they lit the 'smoking lamp'.
We were allowed to take 1 cig outside, stand at attention around the concrete washracks we used for scrubbing our clothing with scrub brushes (as THEY said back then, "Marines don't need no stinkin' laundromat"), and finally yelled out the window that the smoking lamp was lit.
Of the 20 or so out there, I don't think there was one who didn't almost pass out.
Little did we know, until we went back inside, that the 'non-smokers' were made to do pushups and 'bends & thrusts' all the time we were outside.
The next time the smoking lamp was lit, we gained probably an extra 10 or so 'smokers' - people who had never smoked in their lives. Surprisingly, the DI's actually let us give a cigarette to the 'new smokers'.
When we finally left 'the island', there was probably 8 packs of unsmoked cigarettes in each of our cartons, but we never got them. SOMEBODY was making out like bandits.