Buying Tobacco Underage

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With the new law just passed, I a 20 year old, am no longer able to continue enjoying an occasional cigar. Thank you, Caesar.

I’m really tempted to just walk into my usual tobacco shop and and pick one up like I normally do. I don’t know if I’d get carded or not, but I’m convinced that this is not a sin. Or if so, hardly venial. Please convince me otherwise. The only think that I think would be bad would be making the seller break law by selling the cigar to me. Maybe the fact that last week, I was able to do this without any chance of sin compared to the situation today is what is making it difficult for me to see how bad this might or might not be. Thoughts? Does God even care? Am I seriously going to be held accountable for breaking such a stupid civil law?
 
To be honest, I don’t even know because the ink is so fresh on the books. I’d think it’s just 21 to buy. But if a 20 year old can receive a sentence for having being in possession of Alcohol underage, I don’t see why they couldn’t for tobacco products.

I’m having so much trouble seeing how one day something is completely fine, and the next jt causes me to offend God. It’s crazy.
 
Why don’t you just do what people used to do and roll your own?
 
I don’t see why not. Just roll tobacco up in a tobacco leaf.
 
We are bound to obey just laws. There is nothing unjust about trying to reduce tobacco dependency. You will be 21 within a year, in the span of a lifetime, this is simply a minor inconvenience (no pun intended 🙂 )
 
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With the new law just passed, I a 20 year old, am no longer able to continue enjoying an occasional cigar.
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That is the law.

When I was young the drinking age was 19 and then went to 21. So I was of legal drinking age for a year, then not legal again for a year before turning 21.

It is what it is. I lived, so will you.
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Please convince me otherwise.
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It is illegal for the shop owner to sell to an under 21 person, and you put him in jeopardy of fines by such arrogant “I am above the law” behavior.

Follow the law. The Church asks us to be obedient to the law, and doing illegal things is wrong.
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Am I seriously going to be held accountable for breaking such a stupid civil law?
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Yes.
 
Yeah, the OP should look this one up. Every article I’ve seen says that it’s now illegal to purchase tobacco under 21, but does not mention that it’s illegal to smoke under 21.
 
Indeed, it is not legal for the OP to buy tobacco, and possibly as well to possess or smoke it, and far be it from me to suggest that he do these things prior to the age of 21.

I was merely addressing the side topic of whether it is possible to “roll your own” cigar.
 
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With the new law just passed, I a 20 year old, am no longer able to continue enjoying an occasional cigar. Thank you, Caesar.

I’m really tempted to just walk into my usual tobacco shop and and pick one up like I normally do. I don’t know if I’d get carded or not, but I’m convinced that this is not a sin. Or if so, hardly venial. Please convince me otherwise. The only think that I think would be bad would be making the seller break law by selling the cigar to me. Maybe the fact that last week, I was able to do this without any chance of sin compared to the situation today is what is making it difficult for me to see how bad this might or might not be. Thoughts? Does God even care? Am I seriously going to be held accountable for breaking such a stupid civil law?
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Knowingly violating the law is breaking the Fourth Commandment, unless the law is prohibiting you from living in accord with God’s will such as preventing you from engaging in worship or forcing you to do something that is against God’s law. Not only that, but by knowingly breaking the law, you are by your actions showing that Christians are lawbreakers and thus profane God’s name to those who look to you as an ambassador of your faith, and encouraging others to show disrespect and disdain to the earthly authorities that God has ordained to govern over us. So yes, you will be held accountable for breaking the civil law, even statutes you deem to be “stupid.”
 
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I was merely addressing the side topic of whether it is possible to “roll your own” cigar.
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It’s possible but requires a great level of skill.

Cheap gas station cigars will have an outer leaf wrapper while the inside is filled with clipped cigar tobacco. Whereas Premium Cigars are hand rolled.
 
Yes. All I know about rolling cigars is from two YouTube videos I watched this morning. It’s an art. It’s not something I would try, even if I smoked.
 
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I’m lazy, I’d rather smoke my pipe. Pipe tobacco is so much cheaper than cigars too!
 
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I’m really tempted to just walk into my usual tobacco shop and and pick one up like I normally do. I don’t know if I’d get carded or not, but I’m convinced that this is not a sin. Or if so, hardly venial. Please convince me otherwise. T
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I purchased cigs for my Dad when I was 9 … and then one time - even for myself…

I never thought about it in terms of sin.

However, since it’s pressing on your mind, and since you’re allowing “venial” sin,
then you shouldn’t do it… for the sake of raising the level of Venial since you’re now
contemplating committing said sin anyway in more or less full knowledge according to your belief…

IN MY OPINION, in any case, I’d suggest that you don’t bother to involve in Tobacco…

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I was reading some articles. I guess that underage tobacco possession can be considered a crime. Although, I find it very unlikely that police will be bothering folks over this.
 
The guys I work with smoke like chimneys. I tried a cigarette and gagged 🤢

Those things are awful…
 
I dont know about sin.

But I know that for the last 15 years of my grandmother’s life she had wet macular degeneration. The doctor said the 60 years of smoking played a big part in it. Basically, her retinas were leaking blood, causing a bulge, which would have made her go blind. To combat this, they put springs in her eyes and injected medicine directly into her eyeballs. Every 4 to 6 weeks. She said she could see the needle approaching, feel it touch her cornea, hear it crunch when it penetrated, and saw the needle enter her vision “backwards”. She also said it felt like literally torture. The docs said some people just don’t respond to anesthetic during these procedures.

She quit smoking immediately after diagnosis. Perhaps this trouble you’re having is a blessing in disguise?
 
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In the past - young people got into smoking b/c in their minds - it made them appear older…

Today? Vaping? Peer Pressure? Same-Same…

As with cigs/nicotine/addiction - it’s unheathy AND your money goes up in smoke! 😜
 
Okay, okay. I’m convinced. I guess I’ll just have to wait until I’m 21 to buy Tobacco again. I’ll just offer it up. My 21st is on Mardi Gras day, so being from Southern Louisiana, it’s gonna be a pretty good day for me. God bless. Thank y’all for all yalls answers.
 
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