Here is a real reason many states and municipalities want to raise the age of purchasing tobacco and vaping to the age of 21. In areas where recreational marijuana is legal the minimum age to smoke legally is 21. To avoid confusion many place like my home state of Washington starting July 1st will require that purchases be at age 21. Recently the Anchorage Assembly have proposed raising the tobacco and vaping age to age 21. I will only support it in Anchorage if the rest of the state has already done it so people do not drive additional 40 miles to the Matanuska Susitna Borough to buy tobacco and vaping products between the ages of 19 and 21. A former assemblyman Dick Triani says they will not that is not so. You are willing to spend the money to purchase smokes or vaping devices legally they will. Addiction is very powerful thing just ask a recovering drug addict or alcoholic. Attend an AA or NA meeting you will find some assume stories of addiction.
