The Smoking Age has been raised, And possibly the drinking age.
As everyone knows that in the UK it is illegal to buy cigarettes if your under 18, but its okay for you to smoke them when your 16.
If the goverment has that much of a problem with underage smoking, why don't they just stop producing them all together it would make more sence. But the goverment won't because they make too much money from the sale, honestly if the goverment was that concerned about people's health they would stop spending so much money on things we don't need and only benefits certain people they would have enough money to find cures and help organisations to fight diseases.
I myself is a smoke, I admit that its not the healthiest lifestyle ever but who is the goverment to say how we should live our lives. Look at the polliticians, they have their suits, their money and now their power. The power has gone to their heads and they are changing everything, its okay for them to change everything but we are the generation that has to suffer because at the end of the day, the people in parliment will die in 20 years leaving us their choices to live by.
The drinking age is being considered to be put up to 21 or 25. Why do they need to do that? Is it because a lot of young people are binge drinking, its their lives and if they want to drink they should be alowed to make that choice. But the goverment doesn't want to pay for their healthcare, at the age of 18 we have our rights to drink and smoke and vote. But now its being taken away from us because they think we are too imature to handle the consequences, the UK goverment doesn't see whats good and bad for us because they don't live our lives, they hide behind their bits of paper and make decisions that they will never have to follow themselves.
Instead choices are made for us because its what they think is right, next thing we will see it will only be a certain class of people who are alowed to vote.
I'm disgraced, honestly because of the way our generation is being treated because we don't want to live a life by what the goverment says.
( Please share you opinions and don;t give me the whole your so stupid because its my opinion. Please respect mine and I will respect yours)
If the goverment has that much of a problem with underage smoking, why don't they just stop producing them all together it would make more sence. But the goverment won't because they make too much money from the sale, honestly if the goverment was that concerned about people's health they would stop spending so much money on things we don't need and only benefits certain people they would have enough money to find cures and help organisations to fight diseases.
I myself is a smoke, I admit that its not the healthiest lifestyle ever but who is the goverment to say how we should live our lives. Look at the polliticians, they have their suits, their money and now their power. The power has gone to their heads and they are changing everything, its okay for them to change everything but we are the generation that has to suffer because at the end of the day, the people in parliment will die in 20 years leaving us their choices to live by.
The drinking age is being considered to be put up to 21 or 25. Why do they need to do that? Is it because a lot of young people are binge drinking, its their lives and if they want to drink they should be alowed to make that choice. But the goverment doesn't want to pay for their healthcare, at the age of 18 we have our rights to drink and smoke and vote. But now its being taken away from us because they think we are too imature to handle the consequences, the UK goverment doesn't see whats good and bad for us because they don't live our lives, they hide behind their bits of paper and make decisions that they will never have to follow themselves.
Instead choices are made for us because its what they think is right, next thing we will see it will only be a certain class of people who are alowed to vote.
I'm disgraced, honestly because of the way our generation is being treated because we don't want to live a life by what the goverment says.
( Please share you opinions and don;t give me the whole your so stupid because its my opinion. Please respect mine and I will respect yours)
I agree. I'm American and the drinking age here used to be 18(this was a while back, way before I was born), but then they raised it to 21. That doesn't stop anyone underage from drinking, if anything it makes them want to drink more because they feel like they are pulling something over on someone. And plenty of people under 18 smoke. I don't smoke because I can't stand the smell, but its more of a personal choice than anything. I really don't see any point in rasing it at all.
TragicCaseofMyReality, October 21st, 2007 at 11:33:27am
Even if they banned them, people would still make them and import them. It's not hard to make a cheap cig out of tabbaco and a peice of paper. It works, I've seen my friend do it. Either way, People will still be able top get it, So it's a waste of time trying to stop it anyway.
Tholomew Plague, October 5th, 2007 at 09:02:48am
Good they should raise it.
Idiot children.
just_call_me_dookie, October 5th, 2007 at 02:43:17am
If the goverment were that health prioritized they would just stop making the things that they want people to stop using. But they won't because they are making far too much money on it, they shouldn't have the right to dictate our lives even if it is an unhealthy option.
schooldropout, October 4th, 2007 at 10:58:14am
Wow, definitely a lot to think about. I agree to most of it.
Fashion Zombies!, October 4th, 2007 at 08:02:56am
Personally; I dont believe alcohol or mokes should be made to teenagers of ANY age. I may be a health nazi when it comes to that, believe me, I smoke and drink sometimes, But i still dont think we should be able to have them at all. and all places should show ID.
Tholomew Plague, October 3rd, 2007 at 09:19:31pm
The point in raising the smoking age is...
THERE ISN'T ONE!
There's girls in my year who've been smoking since they were 12. It's hardly gonna stop them. I agree with you 100%.
SummerBreakdown.x, October 3rd, 2007 at 08:53:05pm
Raising the ages of drinking and smoking isn't going to help, as long as people have older friends, and there will always be shops that sell the stuff without asking for ID.
I think the world is going crazy with this entire health-craze... Soon enough they'll find out that "ZOMGZ, BUTTER CAUSES CANCER. IF YOU'RE CLOSE TO A BUTTERFLY, YOU WILL DIE." or something like that. There's always going to be someone who will eat too much, take drugs, drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes...
Idk how much that helped xD
Kristmas_Tsanne, October 3rd, 2007 at 05:50:17pm
Thank you guys for your support, we are the ones who have to live by these choices the people who make them for us. Don't.
schooldropout, October 3rd, 2007 at 04:54:04pm
it is only going to start a riot, its not going to get anywhere. Alcohol is alcohol, they shouldnt be taking it away, if they are worried, then all they should be doing is education its people about alcohol, not taking it away.
Vegemite, October 3rd, 2007 at 02:29:11pm
I agree with some of this.
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brompton cocktail., October 2nd, 2007 at 09:32:23pm