The state of Illinois recently passed Tobacco 21, a law making it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to buy cigarettes, proving that intelligence has nothing to do with passing laws. Here are the some of the things that citizens ages 18, 19, and 20 are permitted to do:
1) They can enter into legally binding contracts.
2) They can marry without parental permission.
3)They can exercise their Constitutional right to vote
4) They can join the military
5) They can have the government shove a rifle into their arms and order them into a war zone to kill or be killed
6) They can be ordered to engage in a suicide military mission where they have their limbs blown off or maybe their lives brutally ended.
But in Illinois they can't walk into a goddamn convenience store and buy a pack of cigarettes. Only shortsighted morons could see the logic in such a law. We have seen the enemy, and the enemy is politics.
