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darklordoftech said:

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darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

Meh.

Just curious, but why respond if you don’t care?

Why post it if you aren’t under 21? Why do you care?

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TV’s Frink said:

darklordoftech said:

Possessed said:

darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

Meh.

Just curious, but why respond if you don’t care?

Why post it if you aren’t under 21? Why do you care?

Because I care about things that affect others.

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At least you said affect instead of effect.

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darklordoftech said:

TV’s Frink said:

darklordoftech said:

Possessed said:

darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

Meh.

Just curious, but why respond if you don’t care?

Why post it if you aren’t under 21? Why do you care?

Because I care about things that affect others.

Well it’s good you have your priorities straight. Of all the problems in the world, teens not getting to smoke should definitely be at the top of all our lists.

If this is actually a troll post, it’s a masterstroke. I don’t remember you every saying anything entertaining, so it would seriously be one of the better troll posts I can remember. Bravo?

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TV’s Frink said:

darklordoftech said:

TV’s Frink said:

darklordoftech said:

Possessed said:

darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

Meh.

Just curious, but why respond if you don’t care?

Why post it if you aren’t under 21? Why do you care?

Because I care about things that affect others.

Well it’s good you have your priorities straight. Of all the problems in the world, teens not getting to smoke should definitely be at the top of all our lists.

If this is actually a troll post, it’s a masterstroke. I don’t remember you every saying anything entertaining, so it would seriously be one of the better troll posts I can remember. Bravo?

What one’s prirorities should he is completely subjective. I’m also aware that we don’t have the best history together, so I’m going to assume that if someone else made the exact same post, you wouldn’t have cared, let alone suspect trolling.

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darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

From age 14-17 I chose all of my friends based on whether or not they were 18, making them old enough to by me cigarettes. Don’t let those crooks at the capital ruin it for the current generations.

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moviefreakedmind said:

darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

From age 14-17 I chose all of my friends based on whether or not they were 18, making them old enough to by me cigarettes. Don’t let those crooks at the capital ruin it for the current generations.

However, the “forbidden fruit” effect means that the more people you forbid from doing something, the more of those people do it. More people stop drinking on their 21st birthday than start. The drinking age is 21 because of drunk driving, and there’s no such thing as smoked driving. Also of interest is that the states where the smoking age is 19 still want to raise it to 21. Did you have any 19-year-old or 20-year-old friends?

Somewhat related is that when I was 14-17, my parents forbade me from having any friends so I immersed myslef in the Star Wars universe to give myself hope. The destruction of the Sith at the end of ROTJ to me symbolized the possibility that I would one day break free from my parents and have friends, so I became passionate about the Sith never returning, hence Frink’s grudge against me.

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darklordoftech said:

moviefreakedmind said:

darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

From age 14-17 I chose all of my friends based on whether or not they were 18, making them old enough to by me cigarettes. Don’t let those crooks at the capital ruin it for the current generations.

When I was 14-17 I didn’t have any friends so I immersed myslef in the Star Wars universe to give myself hope. The destruction of the Sith at the end of ROTJ to me symbolized the possibility that I would one day have friends, so I became passionate about the Sith never returning, hence Frink’s grudge against me.

I also had no friends. I immersed myself in sex, drugs, and rock and roll though; you made a better decision than me 😉

I just realized that I spelled “buy” without a ‘u’, how embarrassing!

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moviefreakedmind said:

darklordoftech said:

moviefreakedmind said:

darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

From age 14-17 I chose all of my friends based on whether or not they were 18, making them old enough to by me cigarettes. Don’t let those crooks at the capital ruin it for the current generations.

When I was 14-17 I didn’t have any friends so I immersed myslef in the Star Wars universe to give myself hope. The destruction of the Sith at the end of ROTJ to me symbolized the possibility that I would one day have friends, so I became passionate about the Sith never returning, hence Frink’s grudge against me.

I also had no friends. I immersed myself in sex, drugs, and rock and roll though; you made a better decision than me 😉

I just realized that I spelled “buy” without a ‘u’, how embarrassing!

I edited my post after you responded to it. I wouldn’t have been interested in sex, drugs, and rock and roll if I had friends. I just wanted friends to play video games and see movies with.

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Giving all 18-20 yr olds the right to smoke is one of the dumbest crusades I’ve ever heard of, and I would say the same no matter if it came from you or Jay or my wife or Obama or Harrison Ford or my boss or the Stay-Puft Man or anyone else you can think of.

I don’t care about your feelings about the Sith, I cared that you made every single issue and post about it.

Q: What was your favorite thing about R2D2?
A: HE WASN’T A DAMN SITH!!!

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

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darklordoftech said:

TV’s Frink said:

darklordoftech said:

TV’s Frink said:

darklordoftech said:

Possessed said:

darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

Meh.

Just curious, but why respond if you don’t care?

Why post it if you aren’t under 21? Why do you care?

Because I care about things that affect others.

Well it’s good you have your priorities straight. Of all the problems in the world, teens not getting to smoke should definitely be at the top of all our lists.

If this is actually a troll post, it’s a masterstroke. I don’t remember you every saying anything entertaining, so it would seriously be one of the better troll posts I can remember. Bravo?

What one’s prirorities should he is completely subjective.

I want to come back to this. Your priorities, while completely whacked-out, are your own. But by writing government representatives about it (or saying we should) you’re suggesting it should be everyone’s priority, and that’s completely insane.

Unless, once again, you aren’t serious. I still haven’t seen any evidence to suggest that, however.

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I guess it depends on how much you love cigs.

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darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

If I had absolute power, I would ban smoking entirely.

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8 years of constantly hearing about how Obamacare and gun control are the end of our democracy, how illegal immigrants are the cause of unemployment and crime, and how ISIS is going to wipe us out make it hard to tell which issues are actually important.

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HansiG said:

darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

If I had absolute power, I would ban smoking entirely.

I actually agree with this.

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darklordoftech said:

8 years of constantly hearing about how Obamacare and gun control are the end of our democracy, how illegal immigrants are the cause of unemployment and crime, and how ISIS is going to wipe us out make it hard to tell which issues are actually important.

Not if you use your brain.

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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?”

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Dek Rollins said:

HansiG said:

darklordoftech said:

We cannot allow the smoking age to go up to 21! It’s an assault on the right of 18-20 year olds to decide what to do with their own bodies! Write to your municipal, county, state, and federal representatives about this!

If I had absolute power, I would ban smoking entirely.

I actually agree with this.

I want to agree, but at the same time it’s not really the principle America was founded on. 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.

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TV’s Frink 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.