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Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak (www.bbc.com)

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[–] arabiclearner@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hell, there's a minimum age for running for president for chryssake and it's well past any definition of adulthood.

Yeah and it results in super out of touch people becoming president.

[–] LemmeAtEm@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Definitely. And not just "out of touch," it's part of the reason why we have an ancient ghoul openly talking about how he has no empathy for the plight of younger people in that office right now.