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Teen vaping is a problem, but this seems like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Tobacco and nicotine products should take a similar approach to alcohol and increase the age to 21. This would help get the products out of high schools like it did for alcohol.

Removing e-cigs can hurt people that use them to get off cigarettes.

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1) many states have already raised the vaping and smoking age to 21,

2) I don't know a single human being who drinks who did not drink in high school. Same applies to smoking and vaping.

> 2)

Maybe I'm just a lame nerd, but I didn't drink in high school.

Same. Also holds true for many friends of mine.

I did, but now as an adult (early 30s) I wonder how we even got our hands on it. I guess we knew some sketchy characters and people with fake IDs, but there's no I would risk a charge providing alcohol to minors as an adult, and I wouldn't have provided alcohol to high-schoolers when I was 21, either.

I didn't realize that the laws were changed somewhat recently. For your other point I certainly would have drank a lot more in HS if I was able to buy it myself or had friends that could.

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