Kids Too Young to Smoke by Marielle Bardon

Senate votes to raise tobacco age to 19 - April 15, 2009 - 2:17 p.m. CDT
Copyright 2009, The Associated Press

The Texas Senate is trying to make a law that kids 18 and under will not be able to buy cigarettes anymore. They voted 25 to 5 to raise the smoking age to 19 today. I still think that the youngest you should be to smoke is 21. I don't even think you should be able to smoke. My grandpa died because of lung cancer. He stopped smoking, but it was too late, so he died when I was 2 1/2 years old.

I'm happy that they are raising the age to 19 because usually there's only 17 and 18-year-olds in 12th grade. I hope less and less kids start smoking because they might end up like my grandpa.