{"id":82,"date":"2005-11-03T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/journal\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-04-27T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:19:00","slug":"smoking-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/smoking-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to propose a federal regulation:  make it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone born in 1990 or later.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The <a title=\"Synar Amendment\" href=\"http:\/\/prevention.samhsa.gov\/tobacco\/\">current regulation<\/a> will keep those 15 year-olds in line for a couple years until the states can get their act together with the new rule.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, certain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipmorrisusa.com\/\" ref=\"nofollow\">evil<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reynoldsamerican.com\/\" ref=\"nofollow\">companies<\/a> would use their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanlungs.com\/education\/features\/lobbyists.html\">powerful lobbyists<\/a> to prevent such legislation.  And this proposal goes against the popular philosophy that considers all freedoms to be equally important.  (I wonder if a smoking libertarian sees the irony in &#8220;give me liberty or give me death&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh well.  It makes me feel slightly better to propose it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to propose a federal regulation: make it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone born in 1990 or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}