Chris Christie signs controversial bill to change smoking age in New Jersey — e-cigs also affected

Researchers at the Cato Institute, a pro-liberty think tank, have said raising the smoking age doesn’t significantly reduce youth smoking rates, because the factors most important to determining whether a person will become a smoker or not have little to do with smoking laws.

“Very few teens buy cigarettes at a retail outlet; the overwhelming majority (95 percent) get their tobacco from friends or family,” wrote Patrick Basham and John Luik for the Cato Institute and New York Post. “So, the retail accessibility of tobacco is largely irrelevant to their decision to smoke.”

“There’s an easy way to check this: If easier retail access to tobacco were a cause of increased smoking, then you’d expect to find less youth smoking where access to tobacco was more tightly controlled — but the real-world evidence says otherwise,” they added. “The widespread restrictions on accessibility in California, for example, have largely failed to shift youth smoking levels.”

Even if raising the tobacco age to 21 does substantially smoking rates in New Jersey, the decision to raise the age at which people can purchase electronic cigarettes, which don’t contain any tobacco and have been proven effective at helping people to quit smoking tobacco, seems contradictory to the stated purpose of the legislation.

Vendors caught selling cigarettes or electronic smoking devices to people under the age of 21 could be fined as much as $1,000 per violation.

Article Appeared @http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/07/23/chris-christie-signs-controversial-bill-to-change-smoking-age-in-new-jersey-e-cigs-also-affected/

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