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Age of sale?
BillieTheBot
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Given that the age for buying fireworks is going up there are a couple of other things I think they should change at the same time.
Fireworks are dangerous, yes, but the public should still be able to buy them, although maybe not those really massive ones. The age of sale should be 18 and anyone found with them in public under 18 should be subject to arrest.
Tobacco sales should go up to 18 as well, and there should be a law banning under 18's smoking in public too.
And lastly the lottery should be 18 as well, it’s gambling! You can’t go into a casino at 16 so why should you be able to buy scratch cards. Its stupid.
That and prostitution should be made totally legal as well.
Fireworks are dangerous, yes, but the public should still be able to buy them, although maybe not those really massive ones. The age of sale should be 18 and anyone found with them in public under 18 should be subject to arrest.
Tobacco sales should go up to 18 as well, and there should be a law banning under 18's smoking in public too.
And lastly the lottery should be 18 as well, it’s gambling! You can’t go into a casino at 16 so why should you be able to buy scratch cards. Its stupid.
That and prostitution should be made totally legal as well.
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Cigarettes would be glamorised by the ban, and within weeks you would see every last kid in the housing estate smoking in public to show his 'creed'.
Make it twice as expensive instead... that'll show the little brats!
As for the smoking ban, yeah, you might be right, but I do think they shouldnt be sold to under 18's.
That and parents who smoke should be generally verbaly abused in the street untill they give up.
Do you take the same stance on drugs?
Yeah - if they're any good he usually does them!
But yes, I do take the same stance with drugs, to my mind what you do to yourself is one issue. What you do when you have a kid is TOTALY different. The biggest factor in whether someone smokes or not is if they have a parent/sibling which smokes.
I think its down to the individual, 99% will try it, with some it sticks with others it doesn't.
I wasnt saying that because you have a parent you are definately going to be a smoker, I just saying that one of if not the biggest factor in someone becoming a smoker is a parent or sibling who smokes.
I did test purchases for fireworks a while ago, and most places had signs saying 21 on them. Im not sure if that was shop policies or the law though.
When I say a while I mean about 5 years ago.