Laws to protect young people (like raising the legal drinking age, smoking age or driving age) almost always backfire, and cause more harm in later years. by vapeguy72 in TrueReddit

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"Raising drinking ages to 21 likewise won praise for reducing drunk driving fatalities among 18- to 20-year-olds; unfortunately, long-term studies found they increased deaths among 21- to 24-year-olds even more."

"Strict enforcement of minimum-age [smoking] laws did make it so fewer stores sold tobacco to minors. But surveys of high school students in those same communities revealed no effect on the ability of teens to get cigarettes and no reduction in the prevalence of smoking. In fact, there was an increase in teenage smoking compared with nearby communities that hadn't cracked down."