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

[Reseller]

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

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Please do not comment with "yeah it should" or "No it shouldnt" please make relevent points and point of views aswell as evidence to back up your post. Thanks

Nope because i wont be ableto buy mine then!

[Leuven]

I say yes.

People are saying that smoking should be abnned. I agree with them. So I think that if we increase the age limit on smoking we will probably be stopping some young smokers ruining their lives.

[sarey]

I think it should be raised to 18, like alcohol, but anyway, the age of smoking is too low, and if you begin smoking at a low age, 1. the risk of having cancer is more high & 2. It becomes addictive. But if the law changes for the age of smoking, sometimes those who are addicted wont be able to stop.. hence: 'addicted'.
And ive seen my friend smoke and she was 12! She wasnt addicted, so i helped her stop, but it just proves that not very many people take the smoking law very serious..

[DJ Dut Chat]

Kids don't do it because they want it. I think a reason maybe that its against the law. if you raise it. even more will start..

don't shoot me. just an idea :eusa_danc

[Tristan]

I think they should raise it. Even people of 13/14 are smoking in our school. ;l

[Heart Break Kid]

whats the point people that are under 16 and smoke are already addicted to it theyll just find more ways of stealing ciggerettes

[Halting]

Smoking should be banned it public spaces.

Very True. Lowering the age would mean more people purchasing cigarettes. More money for the goverment but I don't want to breeve in other peoples smoke. I don't want to breeve in the thousands of chemicals which are killing them.

Every Cigarette takes approximately 6 minutes of your life.
24/25 People who smoke die of heart attacks and Cancer
1/25 People who smoke die of age.

Can't you see your killing yourself?! The only real reason why you can purchase the drug in everyday supermarkets is because the goverment owns thousands of money from it!

No to lowering the age.

[FlyingJesus]

Every Cigarette takes approximately 6 minutes of your life.
24/25 People who smoke die of heart attacks and Cancer
1/25 People who smoke die of age.

24 of 25 smokers die of heart attacks/cancer? I don't know where you get that idea from, it's certainly a load of absolute dung. Also, the question was about raising the age of legal purchase, not lowering it.

Bear in mind people, that there is no law whatsoever concerning the age a person is allowed to smoke, the law only covers buying the product.

[Halting]

We got told that 'dung' from connexions 2 years ago.

[Fiddle-Sticks]

In Ireland it already is. Just hasent effected anyone. 16 year olds look 18 anyway! My sister is 16, she would be able to get them, no questions asked.