re: San Antonio becomes first city in Texas to raise legal age to buy tobacco to 21

Just another way to fine people. While doing nothing to prevent smoking.

These stupid liberal SJW snowflakes trying to tell people how to live their lives! Only in crazy California or yankee land would something like this happen!

-Texans of the OT

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Texans of the OT

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Texas is being overrun with outsiders. It will soon be a nanny state

Why not let people make their own choices with their life?

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So you'd prefer 18 as drinking age too?

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I would

i couldn't care less what you do.
i'm suggesting what would have worked for me in jest.

there's no fight left in this dog after the pit bull thread.










































pun intended.

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It should be the parents decision, there should be no drinking age.

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In Wisconsin it is. When I was a kid there was a bar on our lake that we'd stop by sometimes after fishing. I was in my mid/late teens and they'd serve me beer.

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"Wisconsin is the only state that allows parents or guardians to purchase alcohol for their children – regardless of whether that child is seven or 20 years old – at bars and restaurants."

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(after reading the rest of the article I pulled this quote from, there are apparently other states that allow that as well, so Wisconsin is NOT the only one).

But of course many parents are terrible, so we need to ensure those kids are protected.

It's only a problem when Republicans are pushing them

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smoke, drink, drive, vote and enter the military,

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And gamble.

It was 18 when I was in high school, and then they raised it to 21, but everyone who was already able to gamble was grandfathered in