Question

“On Dec. 20, 2019, the President signed legislation amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and raising the federal minimum age of sale of tobacco products from 18 to 21 years. It is now illegal for a retailer to sell any tobacco product—including cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes—to anyone under 21.”

Perform research on the short-term and long-term effects that tobacco products have on teenagers and adults, the added compounds in tobacco products, the marketing methods tobacco companies have, along with if vaping is a healthy alternative to smoking.

After your research, address the following questions in your post:

• Do you agree with the federal government changing the law of the minimum age to purchase tobacco and tobacco related products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age?
• Does this law infringe on civil liberties and individual personal freedom?
• Is vaping a healthier alternative to smoking?  

Answer 1

Answer: According to the changed law, the tobacco can be purchased only if the person is 21 years old or more than that. This strategy is one of the most important methods to reduce the risk of the diseases caused by tobacco. At the early age such as 18, teenagers become addicted to the tobacco consumption. So, to reduce the chances of addiction, it is important to take steps. There are also other strategies that has been implemented such as increasing the tax on tobacco, banning flavoured tobacco etc. This will reduce the demand in the other people too.The teenagers are highly targeted by the tobacco industries and hence this also make children addicted at very early stage.

This law is enforced to reduce the risk and early addiction among teenagers. So, this is one of the beneficial law for the people and public health. Government is taking various initiative to prevent early addiction and minimize the disease Occurance.

Although many people know that smoking causes severe diseases and bad for health, still they smoke. The vaping and the cigarettes, both provide nicotine inhalation. They both are injurious to health. But there are few advantages of vaping over the cigarettes. Vaping is electronically active device which provide nicotine inhalation in vapour forms. So, the chances of air pollution reduces. The another advantage is that it contains only nicotine where as the cigarettes contains many other harmful chemicals and substance.