The State of California has now decided that you have to be 21 before you can smoke cigarettes or even e-cigarettes.  They are also banning cigarette machines entirely, except for adult only locales.  I actually don’t mind this change.   One of the things I like about California is the anti-smoking laws.  It is nice to be in a state where you can safely go out to eat without have to endure second hand smoke from inconsiderate smokers.  In addition, I know too many people who died at an early age because they couldn’t or wouldn’t stop smoking.  The problem is that the same people who are passing this regulation are seriously considering legalizing marijuana.  I have tried to come up with some explanation for the logic behind this obvious contradiction when a vision came to me after I was bumped into by a sixty year old hippy looking guy wearing a “Feel the Bern” hat.  The people passing these laws are all Democrats.  They don’t want people to smoke, because that increases the cost of health care. This is the same logic that made some of them try to ban McDonald’s Happy Meals.   But, while marijuana is obviously at least as dangerous as tobacco, this guy reminded me of an importance difference between tobacco and marijuana.  Someone who smokes marijuana is far more likely to vote for a Democrat.  Suddenly it all makes sense, if liberal Democrats are actually capable of logical thinking in the first place.

TDM