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> Laws discriminating on age should be repelled everywhere.

I'd disagree.

I think its a good thing that countries have minimum driving ages, minimum drinking ages, minimum age of consent for sex and minimum ages where people can vote and enter into contracts.

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This was not adding a minimum age to smoking, it was enforcing a permanent ban on people born after 2008 from ever purchasing tobacco products.

> This was not adding a minimum age to smoking, it was enforcing a permanent ban on people born after 2008 from ever purchasing tobacco products.

sure, fully agree with you but that has nothing to do with the comment I was replying to.

It has everything to do with the comment you replied, you just chose to purposefully ignore the obvious point.

I quoted the comment i replied to.

I was responding to this blanket comment.

> Laws discriminating on age should be repelled everywhere.

I disagree with that and gave various examples as to why I consider that to be a bad idea.

I stand by the comment as do many other people based on the upvotes.

You changed the context from rules that apply to people born after a certain year, to rules applied to everyone regardless of year.

I could be born in 2008 or 2007 either way I need to be 16. But I could be born in 2007 and buy smokes.

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