Smoking 21

From the BBC: 
"New York to raise cigarette sale age"

New York City Council has voted to raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21.

New York will now become by far the most populous place in the US to impose such a high age limit, the Associated Press reports. The new age limit includes electronic vapour cigarettes. Across the US there is a minimum age for smoking of 18. Some states have raised the limit to 19 and at least two other towns have raised it to 21.  Critics of the measure have argued that young people may turn to the black market for cigarettes. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who supported the bill, has 30 days to sign it into law. The measure would then come into effect after 180 days. A plan by Mr Bloomberg to make shops keep cigarettes out of public view was shelved earlier this year.

^ NYC seems to be moving backwards instead of forwards and becoming the laughing-stock of the country with all their new laws (the ones they try to pass, the ones that pass and the ones that pass and get struck down by the courts.) 18 year olds are legally considered adults everywhere in the US and so they should be able to buy cigarettes and alcohol. If the age of maturity was moved to 21 in the country then I could see these laws being legal, but since it is 18 I don't see how the Federal Government (for alcohol) or the State/local Governments can have it at 21. ^

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24752995