Do the Government has a right to set an age limit for smoking?
954109
I think so...considering the health effects of smoking. My guess is they set it at 18 because that's the age you are considered an adult and can make your own decisions about what you do to your body.
202317
Maximum compulsory age is 17.
983797
The government has created a number of propositions that it believes will curb smoking among teens. Some of these measures include prohibiting the sale of cigarette packs containing less than 19 cigarettes, and punishing vendors who sell cigarettes to teenagers under the age of 16 (which is the legal age to purchase cigarettes in France). These propositions will tentatively take effect on November 3, following cigarette tax hikes implemented by the French government since January. The extra taxes caused cigarette sales to decline by 7.7 percent in the first half of this year.
1072997
I Recently stopped smoking,it doesn't give me the right to tell you where you can or can not smoke. You have the right to enjoy yourself.
903970
Yes and no!! Yes because we know they are not REALLY concerned for our health!  No because,as smokers,we KNOW the tax we have to pay,but we CHOOSE to pay it!! So ask yourself,who are the real mugs?? I know I am! The budget is due shortly,yet another increase....................\nmoan......moan........moan!!!!!!\n      *********Just a note************\n As Alchohol levels reach record high, misuse among all age groups is estimated to cost the NHS pounds 1.7bn a year. !!!!\nSo smokers are NOT the only ones!!!!!! How many of you on here, condeming smokers, drink?????????? Hypocritical???????
1093359
Yes, the only thing you are not allowed to do at the age of 18 is drink.  You may join the armed forces, decide who is to be leader of the country, have sex with as many people as you want...but you can't have one beer.  Tell me how much sense that makes.
987157
It isn't going to happen because of the political clout they carry. \nHowever if an arbitrary age like 16 is made for the onset of driving rights, then the equitable thing to do would be to make 76 the maximum age.
605504
AFAIK, nationwide minimum age for possession is 18..you get a ticket for minor-in-possession of tobacco.
846545
As a former smoker, nurse, and former restaurant owner, NO.  That should be the right of the business owner.  \n\nOur county has a county-wide ban on smoking in restaurants (not bars) and of course in public places.  \n\nI like going into a restaurant and not smelling like smoke or having to breath second hand smoke.  But I had that choice before the ban too by eating at restaurants which were non-smoking.  Smokers can't smoke inside buildings, but they huddle together at the door and I have to walk through the cloud of smoke to get inside which I wouldn't have been exposed to before the county-wide smoking ban.\n\nSo NO.  That choice should be the business owner's choice and  the consumer's choice to vote with their feet.
1019689
In Canada, it WAS lowered to 14, the Government is looking to raise it back up again.  There are statutes that allow for 'within a certain number of years'  (for eg, a 15 year old with a 16 year old) \nI think it should be around 16, with 18 being the regular adulthood age.  I think it's silly that in the USA an 18 year old can join the military and potentially kill someone, but can't have a drink legally... now THAT is a weird one.
976461
I think it was a trick question to older people ...for instant one women voted no to both opinion, thinking that she was voting for people to have the right to smoke in certain areas.The wording in the question throwed them off. So yes , I think if they got a petition people would sign it. And yes some would sign it that don't smoke, 2 people I know told me that they didn't want anymore Rights taken away from them.
928423
if you were a child you broke the law you have now forfieted your right to fairness in this area.  if you were of consenting age then you have made the choice and you pay the consiquences.  either way the govt has ever right to charge you whatever they want for your decisions.  nobody makes you use nicotine... if it was something that you were required to do then yes.
444371
It is illegal to posess or use tobacco if you are under 18.
135168
No. Instead can provide some area of them as smoking prohibited and those who wish to move that area can go.
503735
Whether or not it's right, if you start trying to tell people what they can do around their children, you start taking away their personal rights, then when does it stop? Don't get me wrong-I HATE it when people smoke w/ their kids around--my parents did it & I have asthma, but when you start taking away rights from people because people think it's wrong, it opens the door for the government to start controlling everything!
44981
The law doesn't say it, the people who pass laws say it.  You being one of those people, you can always work to change it.\n\nWould you agree that there needs to be some legal age for those things?  I mean, do you feel like it should be legal for a 12 year old to buy and drink whiskey?  A nine year old to buy and smoke tobacco?  I assume you're okay with the idea that there needs to be some regulation on the ages for those things.\n\nIf your question has to do with the disparity between them, I'd agree with the other poster.  I can smoke a pack of cigarettes in ten minutes and get in my car and drive as safely as ever.  I can't drink a six-pack in ten minutes and go off and drive safely, so it makes sense to me that we'd sell alcohol to people who are older than 18.\n\nMaybe we should raise the smoking age? :)
750609
No.\nIn the same way that they can't buy cigs for someone older.\nOf course.