The end of his Op-Ed in the Union Leader caught more of my attention than the dribble he had IN the Op-Ed (emphasis mine):
Dr. Seth Emont lives in Walpole, manages the Tobacco Cessation Program at Cheshire Medical Center and leads the Cheshire Coalition for Tobacco Free Communities.
The beginning was “Time to protect children with a statewide tobacco 21 policy” and the statistical dribble was in between.
Missing was the common knowledge that if you don’t know that smoking is bad for you at this point, as the Government has been putting down the hammer on it since the mid-1960s (that would be 50 years for y’all in Rio Linda), well, that’s on you. However, that’s the play that Dr. Emont decided to take and Karen us all to death again in telling us that children should be allowed to smoke and want to bring the force of Government into play to make it so that children up to the age of 21 can’t smoke.
Yes, he effectively said it – even if you are of the age of majority, you are still a child. Further, you are unable to make a rational decision that HE agrees with until you reach age 21 years + a day. Then go ahead, light it up because NOW you are finally an adult in his eyes. What a condescending attitude.
Like many, he’s using children as political pawns. If he was REALLY courageous and speaking to what I think is his heart of hearts, his message SHOULD be:
Make tobacco use ILLEGAL for EVERYONE. NOW!
Anything else is virtue-signaling.
