Raising the Tobacco Age
¨Raising the legal minimum age for cigarette purchaser to 21 could gut our key young adult market” (Morris). His research is getting out the point that 18 year olds are still in high school and can distribute tobacco products to the younger generations. If the age for smoking was 21; not as many younger people would have access to tobacco. So there would be a smaller population of adolescents that use of tobacco.There may be no way to stop smoking for everyone, but it is possible to reduce the amount of tobacco users. If the age is higher to buy then, 18 year olds in highschool can’t buy and give to others. My solution is making identification more strict so there isn’t any getting away with a fake ID. Getting the whole country to agree to raising the age can keep adolescents from using it in other areas. Raising the smoking law could lower the age of high school smokers and eventually lower the rate all around.
In 2016, 4 million U.S middle school students were using tobacco products. In some cases half of that were using more than just one product of tobacco. About 2 in 100 students, 2.2%, high school and middle school were proven to have smoked in the last 30 days. With use of any type of tobacco, 20 in 100 students, 20.2%, were proven to …show more content…
Spreading information and awareness about the harmful effects of smoking can help warn the younger population. If the age range is higher than 18, there won't be an easy way for 18 year olds to give it to the kids that want it in there high school. Buying tobacco isn’t all that strict because you can easily miss something on the ID, or it could even be fake, showing 2 types of ID could be more of a guarantee of their age. A big factor to a solution is that if everyone changes the tobacco law to 21, because if it were only a few states it wouldn’t stop them from getting it anywhere
¨Raising the legal minimum age for cigarette purchaser to 21 could gut our key young adult market” (Morris). His research is getting out the point that 18 year olds are still in high school and can distribute tobacco products to the younger generations. If the age for smoking was 21; not as many younger people would have access to tobacco. So there would be a smaller population of adolescents that use of tobacco.There may be no way to stop smoking for everyone, but it is possible to reduce the amount of tobacco users. If the age is higher to buy then, 18 year olds in highschool can’t buy and give to others. My solution is making identification more strict so there isn’t any getting away with a fake ID. Getting the whole country to agree to raising the age can keep adolescents from using it in other areas. Raising the smoking law could lower the age of high school smokers and eventually lower the rate all around.
In 2016, 4 million U.S middle school students were using tobacco products. In some cases half of that were using more than just one product of tobacco. About 2 in 100 students, 2.2%, high school and middle school were proven to have smoked in the last 30 days. With use of any type of tobacco, 20 in 100 students, 20.2%, were proven to …show more content…
Spreading information and awareness about the harmful effects of smoking can help warn the younger population. If the age range is higher than 18, there won't be an easy way for 18 year olds to give it to the kids that want it in there high school. Buying tobacco isn’t all that strict because you can easily miss something on the ID, or it could even be fake, showing 2 types of ID could be more of a guarantee of their age. A big factor to a solution is that if everyone changes the tobacco law to 21, because if it were only a few states it wouldn’t stop them from getting it anywhere