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darklordoftech said:

I also want to add that the precedent is damgerous. If 18-20 aren’t adults on one thing, what’s to prevent 18-20 year olds from loosing other rights in the future? What if it leads to the 26th amendment getting repealed? What if the pipe-smoking characters in the OT and Marion Ravenwood get censored for “setting a bad example?”

Slippery slope. No one is taking voting rights away. Voting is an intrinsic right inherent in citizenship, not a vice.

And if you hadn’t noticed, smoking characters in entertainment are few and far between these days anyway. Society has gotten smarter, at least on this issue.

TV’s Frink said:
If an adult wants to kill him or herself with a vice like cigarettes, that’s not my business. It’s my business when they are puffing in my face, and since smoking has generally been outlawed in most places I would have to worry about it, I’m fine with the way things are right now.

This is what I’ve been trying to say. You’re an adult at 18 and you go off to Syria at 18.

darklordoftech said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:
Maybe he works for Big Cig?

Big Cig actually wants to raise the legal age in order to increase the “forbidden fruit” appeal. They have sponsored legislation to raise the smoking age many times and studies show that a higher smoking age makes more people smoke, not less.

That proves it, you definitely work for Big Cig.

You got any links to these studies? In the article I read about the CA legislation, the sponsor said “95 percent of smokers pick up the habit before turning 21.” I don’t know if this is true, but the reverse sounds implausible. The older we are, the more mature we are, and the less dumb choices we make.

darklordoftech said:

TV’s Frink said:
If an adult wants to kill him or herself with a vice like cigarettes, that’s not my business. It’s my business when they are puffing in my face, and since smoking has generally been outlawed in most places I would have to worry about it, I’m fine with the way things are right now.

This is what I’ve been trying to say. You’re an adult at 18 and you go off to Syria at 18.

The minimum military age is another entirely different matter, just like voting is. They are separate issues.

I’m conflicted on the the minimum military service age, for what it is worth. But there is a positive to our country for people being in the military. There is not a positive for smoking.

So you think 18 should be the legal drinking age?

As I said, I’m conflicted on the military age. If the argument is that all ages should align, I’d much rather raise the military age than lower the drinking age. The problem is that military participation is not high enough anymore, the military has enough trouble maintaining recruitment as it is without making it worse by raising the age.

If you’re 18 and you think it’s unfair you can kill/be killed but can’t drink or smoke, then don’t join the military.

Pre-adults not being able to smoke (or drink, now?) is still the very bottom of the barrel that holds the problems we face in this country.

Life isn’t fair.

Possessed said:

Wait, so you never thought Smoke was a projection made by R2?

Evidence:

Dek Rollins said:

^You mean this:

Somebody missed the joke.

He was.

Don’t dig your heels in, just admit you missed the joke and move on. I’ve done it plenty.

Ok fine. It looked to me like you were correcting Dom, not making another joke…so apparently I missed the joke.

I think this is clear evidence that people under 18 or over 60 shouldn’t be allowed to try making jokes or try reading jokes.

I’ll admit that TV’s Frink is pretty.

Possessed said:

I’ll admit that TV’s Frink is pretty.

https://youtu.be/Ih2ZKltAeQ4?t=73

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Listen you stupid cock suckers

Wait, what’s stupid? The cocks or the suckers of said cocks?

Test post.