Current Event #11:

Raise smoking age to 21 and regulate e-cigs, pediatricians urge

This article is about how the age of buying and smoking cigarettes should be raised to 21 years old. Based on this article, many pediatricians believe that the age should be raised due to a shorter life span of those who do smoke. Given the research, it has been said that many teens are smoking when their brain is still developing, which can cause major consequences. These doctors believe that if the age of smoking is raised, that we would have a larger population and people, such as teens, would have a longer life span and be more knowledgeable since their brain cells are being fully developed.

In my opinion, I think that raising the age of buying cigarettes and smoking would be pointless. I agree that teens today are addicted to smoking while their brain is still developing, but they are still teens and will find ways to do what they want regardless of the rules/law. Many people, not just teens still smoke consistently. These people smoke these certain drugs because they favor the affect it has on them, so e-cigs wouldn't be doing these people any justice.

Raise age to buy tobacco to 21 pediatricians argue - CNN.com. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2015, from http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/health/raise-minimum-smoking-age/?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion&iref=obinsite