Raise the smoking age to 21

20 million Americans are still smoking. This proportion is much smaller than decades ago. However, it is still a disaster of public health. 18% of adults expose themselves and their families to the risk of serious, perfectly preventable health problems. Education program to change social attitude

In any case, the increase in smoking age is in the table. Earlier this year, Hawaii Governor David Igg signed a bill to raise the minimum smoking age to 21 years old. This law came into effect on January 1, 2016. Several cities and counties including New York City have increased the smoking age to 21 years old. The health problem is persuasive. Smoking is a major cause of preventable diseases such as early death and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, heart disease and many cancers. In the past few decades, smoking has declined seriously due to the strengthening of education and regulation. But will younger people become brighter as their age goes up? Let's think about both sides.

This is the subject of research by government funds issued by the Institute of Medical Research (IOM) recently and it is investigating the public health impact by raising the legal age of smoking from 18 years old to 21 years old. At the request of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the International Migration Organization (IOM) conducted a detailed mathematical simulation of the impact of the increase in smoking age to 19, 21 and 25 years of age. They said that if the age of smoking is 21 years old, "The number of premature deaths decreased by about 223,000 people, the number of lung cancer deaths decreased by 50,000 people, born between 2000 and 2019, the loss of life Will decrease by 4.2 million people. "

Advocates of stricter standards state that raising the legal age to 21 will save human life and lower state health costs. They say that adolescents of today are adults, according to a medical research institute report of 2015, predicting that smoking will decline by 12% at age 21. It also causes about 223,000 people to die prematurely

There are many support for this countermeasure. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one adult in 7 people currently supports raising the age of smoking to 21 years. Three quarters of former smokers support it - you expect it. However, 69% of existing smokers seem to be. This means that most people currently smoking actually do not think it should be so easy to get started. All of this seems like dunk to prevent smoking, but often it comes down to the argument that smoking such as drinking, voting, battle, etc. should be able to smoke if it leads to death. This usually comes from the type of large cigarette and liberal freedom, and they think that what limits more than adulthood is a landslide, or 18