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i know the polls are closed but, I can I will say Thomas you are right I did smoke some 20/30 years ago, I'm not a hater but people stress kill, so why do more to hurt yourselves, if you are going to blame anyone blame your parents, cause all you learn u learn it from your family and their family member. Think back the first teething, BBQ, gathering as a child what was there, smoke either from the BBQ grill, cigarettes, weed,something, we didn't start this and don't young people blame I'm 17/18 and can go to war but can't drink or smoke nor blame it on you not getting your taxes, 78% of the people who smoke are the ones getting federal aid you know who you are, food stamps etc, just say stop blaming others for the shit you're in
If your going to band it for 19 year olds, stop sell f tobacco on guam. Why do only us young ADULTS have to suffer? government is corrupt. what is this world coming threw? leave us smokers alone and get us our damn taxes before you approve this dumb bill
This bill is so stupid. I agree with all your comments. We are now legal at 18. The no alcohol until your 21 law i understand because some idiots drink and drive. but what is wrong with smoking? Everyone who smoked knows the consequences! It fine though really. do what you want leaders of guam. all you do is make guam more corrupt. instead of coming up with new bills, focus on getting us our tax. when my tax comes in i will make sure to buy a whole bunch of cartons of my marlboro. #19 and got to have my nicotine. I work, I have kids, im stressed most of the day. smoking a cigarette at the end of my day is a big stress reliever for me.
Increase to age 21 across the board,, ie drivers license and gun permit.
I believe it was Polly Bergen who on the "To Tell The Truth" show who said "if they are old enough to die for their country and vote, their old enough to do what they want." However, our rights have matured to a new definition: one person's freedom to do as he/she pleases ends where another person's freedom begins. Issues like smoking, drinking, and other behaviors I don 't care to mention should fall on the voting public to decide and not legislators who wear their morality on their sleeves.
We are going to have Senators pass a vote on another issue that has really no impact either way so they can say they are doing their jobs? I hear some say it's a health choice and that it should be banned from the island. So when are all those over weight people going to lose all their weight and start eating healthy? Are we going to ban candy and other foods next? There are far more people that have diabetes and are way over weight that have heart and serious health issues. Where is the law that says your too fat so you can't be seen in public or that your bad health habits are costing us millions, because you refuse to eat healthy or exercise? Police officers and firemen are way over weight. They all work for Guam Government why can't they change their bad habits first rather than passing a law that limits the choices of all? Changing the age for smoking will save some and the few that are saved will not reflect the numbers lost to all the other people with eating problems with respect to eating right and getting the proper exercise. What about all the drunk drivers on Guam? When is it going to be illegal to consume alcohol? When is there going to be a new law than bans alcohol all together? Sounds like discrimination and the splitting of the hair on your head!
Those who want to smoke cigarettes are going to smoke no matter what , give it a shot and pass the law . Legalize recreational marijuana instead or make it legal for medical marijuana to be grown at the patients home instead of forcing them to pay a high price for a herb they can grow at a fraction of the retail price . Why must the sick be punished financially ? What is this stupid compassionate marijuana law ?
I find it sad that our government has no trust in our youth to be able to make the right decisions for themselves. If your stance is that we are still kids and don't know any better, then by that same logic we shouldn't be able to be tried as adults in the court of law, or join the military, or get tattoos until 21. We've got to have freedom of choice at some point; whether we are ready for it or not is dependent upon the individual. I think this is just one step closer to the government practicing full control on its citizens. If the drinking/smoking age is 21, who's to say that it can't be raised again to 25? once again it's sad because it's the youth that repeatedly gets the short end of the stick; their rights are slowly being taken away by the older generations who drank and smoked at our age and still turned out fine (mostly), but wanna turn around and say that youth now aren't old enough to do the same. It's hypocrisy really. And besides, smoking is a dying trend among youths. I think prohibiting it til 21 will only make kids want to try it even more.
Why move it to 21 when 18 is the age of adulthood? When you are 18, you are able to work, pay for yourself, be charged for any crimes you commit, and are expected to be responsible for your choices. Smoking is one of them, at 18, someone should already know the consequences that the habit carries. I don't see how moving it to 21 will do anything other than limit their rights as an adult to chose their habits or lifestyle.
Go a step further, make smoking illegal for the entire island. Ban tobacco shipments into Guam. In the long run it will create a healthier society, less government expenses for healing the ignorantand self-serving ones. It would stop those insane ten minutes breaks while being doing your "job".
they can defend at 17, jvr2day, and the stumbling block is the tobacco that will take their lives before retirement! glad I stopped smoking after many years; unfortunately, most of my best friends continued and smoked to death benefitting the early caskets!
At 18 they can go and defend their country yet you put up stumbling blocks for them
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