I am quite surprised that young people smoke, given the wide spread news along with the KNOWN health consequences (unlike people who smoked during years gone by when it was not known that smoking was dangerous to one's health).
Howsoever, you are going to smoke anyway, so suggesting you quit is probably something you do not want to hear.
Nonetheless, if 21 years of age is how old you have to be to purchase cigarettes, then you cannot buy any. I am not quite sure if you smoke a cigarette, you would be arrested as the police probably will not waste their resources. Howsoever, merchants who sell cigs to minors will be arrested and possibly lose their license to sell them. So, if you are going to smoke, you will have to have someone else buy them for you. Get ready to buy a carton at a time because no one wants to be bothered every day to go and buy your cigarettes for the next three years until you are 21, when you can buy them yourself.
Better yet, you should quit. My mom was diagnosed with cancer from cigs the day after she turned 49. The doctors gave her four to six weeks to live. She died in five weeks.
The best thing you could ever do for your self is to quit smoking. I have seen so many people die from lung cancer, they often can't eat because they can't eat and breath at the same time. Breathing takes all their engery. Please consider quilting for your future self and your future family..
You could move. But a better idea would be to check to specifics of the law. There may be no law against people under 21 smoking, just a law against the sale of cigarettes to people under 21.
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The only loophole is doing it illegally.
I am quite surprised that young people smoke, given the wide spread news along with the KNOWN health consequences (unlike people who smoked during years gone by when it was not known that smoking was dangerous to one's health).
Howsoever, you are going to smoke anyway, so suggesting you quit is probably something you do not want to hear.
Nonetheless, if 21 years of age is how old you have to be to purchase cigarettes, then you cannot buy any. I am not quite sure if you smoke a cigarette, you would be arrested as the police probably will not waste their resources. Howsoever, merchants who sell cigs to minors will be arrested and possibly lose their license to sell them. So, if you are going to smoke, you will have to have someone else buy them for you. Get ready to buy a carton at a time because no one wants to be bothered every day to go and buy your cigarettes for the next three years until you are 21, when you can buy them yourself.
Better yet, you should quit. My mom was diagnosed with cancer from cigs the day after she turned 49. The doctors gave her four to six weeks to live. She died in five weeks.
The best thing you could ever do for your self is to quit smoking. I have seen so many people die from lung cancer, they often can't eat because they can't eat and breath at the same time. Breathing takes all their engery. Please consider quilting for your future self and your future family..
No. You can fly back to Florida to smoke. You can live in Hawaii and smoke in Florida.
You are ALWAYS subject to the laws where you ARE, not where you are from.
The closest to a loophole is you can smoke anywhere that the legal age is not more than your current age.
No loopholes. Every state has its own law - they're all like different countries. You're in Hawaii, Hawaiian law applies.
You can't buy them or possess them in public is my understanding.
Just have someone buy for you. But, you should not smoke at any age.
You could move. But a better idea would be to check to specifics of the law. There may be no law against people under 21 smoking, just a law against the sale of cigarettes to people under 21.
it wouldnt hurt to quit srnoking, this way you wont get cancer later