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Police State: NYC bans tobacco sales to anyone under age 21
11-19-2013, 08:19 PM
I had a high school kid who would have gone in with me on a cigarette scheme about two years ago but I didn't trust him enough to go through with it. I was going to order them for ~$35 a carton off the Internet and charge slightly below market price here. I would have made a killing!
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Police State: NYC bans tobacco sales to anyone under age 21
11-19-2013, 11:36 PM
Damn, that's fucked up. I'm willing to bet this law will stop exactly 0 people from smoking underage should they decide they want to smoke.
I remember going to Utah when I was 18 to snowboard. I tried buying a pack of smokes and they told me I had to be 19. I thought that was fucked up, but 21? At 18 you can die for your country, but now not only can you not drink, you can't smoke? So if we aren't old enough at 18 to make rational decisions for ourselves, how can you rationally make a decision to go die in Afghanistan? Sometimes the US just makes me shake my damn head and say, "what the fuck is going on?"
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Police State: NYC bans tobacco sales to anyone under age 21
11-20-2013, 12:48 AM
Morons, the lot of them. I didn't start heavy smoking until I was 21.
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11-20-2013, 12:51 AM
Exactly katatonic. Just like amersterdam locals smoke much less weed than Americans. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean people aren't going to do it, especially young people. In fact, they'll do it just to rebel.
Another good point about illegal activities and smuggling of liquor during prohibition. It gave the mob a fat bank roll. Shit, G's first thought was, "new way to make money." I was thinking the same thing. I was even thinking it when I found out cigs were $16 a pack in manhattan. This is the same reason I think ALL drugs should be legal. Why are we gonna let the cartels make all that money when we can be taxing it and pumping that money into our roads, education, etc. we could also ensure people were smoking and shooting up fucked up chemicals by controlling the quality. A weird world this is.
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Police State: NYC bans tobacco sales to anyone under age 21
11-20-2013, 01:15 AM
Are cigarettes really $16 a pack in Manhattan? Fuck, I'm in the wrong business. Time to fill up the car and head east.
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Police State: NYC bans tobacco sales to anyone under age 21
11-20-2013, 02:16 AM
I remember when I was in high school in California and the smoking age was 18. It was impossible to get cigarettes if you were a minor. The park was absolutely not filled with high school kids smoking cigarettes and cutting classes every single day.....or smoking weed for that matter...or having sex in the bathroom stalls...or beating the shit out of each other behind the building....etc.
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Police State: NYC bans tobacco sales to anyone under age 21
11-20-2013, 03:02 AM
Yeah, in manhattan, I paid between $14-16 a pack.
I grew up outside of Vegas, and in nevada, cops can't write you a ticket for smoking under age. At best they may be able to take your pack away, but I only saw it happen when kids were already busted for something else, like under age drinking. They would profile you though and try and stop you on the street to see if you had pot on you. I think nevada is one of the only states with this law. I heard something about jersey having it too. You can smoke under age, you just can't buy them. I remember when we'd make trips to cali, we were always cautious not to get one of the tabbaco tickets we had heard of. I remember feeling strange having to go hide in a descretely place with my cousin when we'd go smoke.