Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products
Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products
A Massachusetts town that adopted an unusual ordinance banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born in the 21st century is being looked at as a possible model for other cities and towns hoping to further clamp down on cigarettes and other tobacco products.
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Please for the love of God watch this before commenting some dumb shit about "it's my right to expose everyone around me to airborne toxic materials!"
yeah, being exposed to cigarette smoke is not ideal.
my issue with this law is that it feels immensely inconsistent: cars, and guns kill a huge amount of people per year. likely more than cigarettes, but i can't verify that rn. why not put some effort into those problems?
Cigarettes are responsible for about 480,000 deaths per year. Guns related deaths make up just over 48,000. And about 42,000 for vehicle related deaths.
Honestly, I'm quite surprised, I would've guessed that you were correct.
Edit: there is a huge difference though. Most cigarette smokers are self inflicted. As far as second hand smoke, if you can prove damages as a result of it I'm fairly certain you could sue. Enough of that would discourage people from smoking around others without consent. And smoking around your children should be child endangerment.
The things that should be legislated are it's effects on others, but you should be able to whatever you want to yourself.
surprising!! thanks for looking it up my internet is painfully spotty rn.
totally agree about legislation.
Well you can throw in the other 800,000 deaths a year caused by the breathing in of car exhaust and you won't be surprised any more. They kill more than just the pedestrians and other drivers.
As the other user pointed out, cigarettes kill far more Americans than cars or guns. Iâm with you on the gun thing. But the car safety stats are always increasing because we do in fact put a huge amount of effort into them - from seat belt laws to firewalls to airbags to automatic braking⊠thereâs too many to name. Now thereâs the recent move of making them bigger, harder to stop, and with reduced visibility, so we might see those gains flatten out in the next half decade or so.
Weâre also going to start to see a decline in cigarette related deaths as fewer and fewer are smoking them these days. Thereâs an intersection of public health messaging, government policies on age of access, taxes, and other efforts that are really starting to pay off. I think the e-cigarettes are also helping, but thatâs a whole discussion of its own.
So cigarette related deaths are still pretty high, but it will start to fall off. I canât remember the exact prediction but letâs just call it falling by half in the next decade. Cigarettes are deadly, but they take a long time to kill.
Smokers born in the 40s and 50s are the ones dying from things like cancer and heart disease today, and the replacement rate (new smokers versus loss from people quitting or dying) isnât working in tobaccoâs favor.
i was more referring to pedestrians.
Because then concern trolls like you will sealion about why we aren't doing anything about cigarettes instead?
Ever think that those two things kill so much more because anti-smoke laws have been working?
Prepare thy goalpost, because cigarettes kill about 10 times as many as either of the other things
jesus christ buddy go outside
Make smokig illegal in public (been done in many places) but legal in your own home, or at places FOR that purpose.
Like alcohol