*DEBATE* Should the age of being allowed to buy cigarettes be raised from 16 to 18

[omgabear]

Even if it was would be abide by it?

[Aimseh]

I think it should definatly be moved up to the age 18. Although some people enjoy smoking they may aswell try and stop now because it is getting banned next summer in all public places so they are going to have stay in all the time. If some people stay in all the time then they are letting a cigarette rule their life. Also people are still teenagers when they smoke so i think it should definatly be moved up. Smoking is worse than drinking alcohol and you aren't allowed to do that until you are 18 and then they let something that is worse than alcohol at the age limit of 16. I don't think it's right.

[FlyingJesus]

It's not worse than drinking.. the health risks may be higher in the long run, but when people smoke they don't become dangerously aggressive or uncontrollable. So far the only reasons to push up the age are to do with health or personal preference, and the latter shouldn't come into reasoning when you're talking about something that will affect an entire country. The reasons not to far outweigh this, as most people agree that people will still smoke whatever the legal age of purchase (which is what the debate is about, not the legal age of smoking), and so far no-one's come up with anything to counter the argument about commerce and economy, it's just different people saying the same things over and over.

[Jordan3]

No it shouldn't, I don't need any evidence, I just have a question, why raise it?

[GJay]

Should the age of being allowed to buy cigarettes be raised from 16 to 18

YES! It should be banned altogether tho

[Krusty]

It should just be banned altogether..
Or at least in public places..
Smoking = killing your self over a period of time
Gun to the head = Quicker, Cheaper

[Proof!]

There's no point in raising it because, there going to ban smoking in public places.So no point really lol And plus people who really are 16 cant buy because they dont look 16 lmao unless they can look it off..

[FlyingJesus]

It would probably help if people read the topic before just posting "YES BAN IT COMPLETELY".

[Bimbybecca]

I'm 19. I've been smoking since I was 14. There would be no point in raising the age to buy ciggerettes because underage people would still get them, in fact by raising the age **** would seem even more 'rebelious' and you'd probably get more rebels trying it out.

I really wish I had never smoked my first ciggerette, but I did and now I'm hooked. The government should'nt be making silly laws about ciggerttes that will go nowhere they should ban smoking all together (but they obviously won't because they'll loose far too much money).

When I was 14 I was dating a 16 year old guy who would buy **** for me, I had no problem getting ciggerttes and niether do millions of other teenagers, I'll be honest with you, the only reason I started smoking was to look 'cool', now I realise that it's very anti-social and it's now cool in the slightest.

Smoking has absolutely no good points, unfortunately by the time I learnt my lesson it was far too late. I don't want this to happen to anybody else. I propose that smoking should be banned, raising the age limit will do nothing (you have to be 18 to buy alcohol, does that stop any 13 year olds?)

I'm gonna leave you with a shocking fact. Nicotine is more dangerous than heroin. This is 100% true.
You can buy a gram of herion on the streets and inject it, you won't die (please don't try this). A ciggerette contains 0.9mg of nicotine, if you were to inject yourself with one gram of nicotine you would die instantly, please take my word for this and don't try it.
The thing I don't understand is why the government has banned heroin when nicotine is far worse for you (btw i dont think heroin should be legalised!). As I said before the government won't ban ciggerettes because they'll loose too much tax, however they need to think about how much money they'll save on the NHS, which currently spends billions on smokers.

[FlyingJesus]

On the subject of nicotine poison, apparently if you get pure nicotine (in liquid form), it takes just one tiny drop to kill a fully grown man. Yummy.

+rep for taking both/all viewpoints into perspective and getting a good argument in ^_^