RE: Laws regarding seatbelts and cigarettes
July 18, 2018 at 3:21 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2018 at 3:26 pm by Brian37.)
(July 18, 2018 at 2:54 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: I really wish there was some level of consistency in the way the government makes laws regarding seatbelts and cigarettes. Currently seatbelts are mandatory while it's legal to buy/sell cigarettes.
Either:
1) Allow us to make poor decisions that may end up killing us by removing all laws that require one to wear a seatbelt and permitting people to freely buy/sell cigarettes
OR
2) Forbid us from making poor life/death decisions by requiring people to wear seatbelts and banning the sale of cigarettes.
Why is there a double standard with respect to these 2 issues?
Rand Paul fan? If so, been there done that.
1. Seatbelts mandated? Why? Because even if you don't give a shit about your own life, if you get hurt everyone's car insurance and medical insurance goes up.
Smoking? At what age? I started when I was 13, hate to tell you but back then, the tobacco companies WERE marketing to kids and especially minorities in poor communities.
Cowboys and Camels are hero images. Candy cigarettes were aimed at kids. The trend with alcohol now is to give beer and liquor colors and flavors aimed at youth too.
Now in Australia you can buy both booze and smokes STILL, but what they don't do is put adult products in the same store that a kid would be allowed in, not even beer.
