The USFG and state and local government should increase the punishment to age restriction violators.

now first i would like to start with your "8th amendment argument." As you have previously stated the 8th amendment states that there should be no cruel and unusually punishments. well if you look into the status Quo this is used all the time and the 8th amendment is often ignored. Recently on news there was a disclosure of a tape containing Water boarding by the CIA destroyed. then we look towards Abu Ghraib and realize that there was also torture there. For the past twenty years or so we have been looking towards gitmo and Screemin TOURTURE. have we done anything NO. NOw if you look to http://www.slate.com... you see the Gov't impliment of a tourter program. It is NECICARY to find important information. now we ask ourself sould we stop tourture at a whole because it is un moral. Or should we pick up the ideas of utilitarianism and understand the the path justifies the outcome. that the suffering of one may be owtweight by the gains for many people. so i say what the Heck why should wer ban tourture so one 2000 kids get scars but the nation then has no more smokers after say 30 years. but not only the greater good of many but of that one as well. if you take a moment and talk to those who have been smoking since the age of 13-18 and are now say 50 you will understand. take my dad for insistence he is now 51 and has een smoking since the age of 13. Well im sure it was a great consversation starer and freind maker 38 years ago but now he is on an artificial breather. Look towards others... they have to have there voice box removed. all these things. dieing young. not able to live to see grandchildren. Now lets impliment our plan. Who knows maybe they live to seee great grand children, and hey...maybe they now have a great conversation stater "oh those burns were from WW2... not reallly i used to smoke but now i dont. and i am thankful." one more thing here is a little "Government 101". That thing called an addmendment it can be Addmended to be removed from the constitution. Ha there goes oyour dumn admendment argument ... "and this concludes our govenment 101 class today... please open you books to pg89 where we can talk about utalitarianism and the glory of MArx and his followers." I honestly believe that horse is long dead so i will stop beating it (for now). Now lets look at you child abuse=Solvency defecate /ALT. Causality. I can see were you come up w/ your argument about child abuse. But honestly 1.) it could be implemented by any one. not necessarily parents. But honestly can you claim theye will intern start smoking if this happens? you have to see that the once who get this punishment have allready smoked so there goes that but lets talk more aout it. Yeah im a teanager and i understand the whole "rebelion" idea but that kindove ends when you realize if you keep doing this same thing you keep getting the stick and not the carrot. "cant prove three cigarettes arg." you have to see we can.. "we have our ways." no but seriasly there are medical ways of telling the approximated number of cigerettes smoked. Oh i like that "put that in your pipe and smoke it cute." it should be changed put that in your pipe smoke it and later maybe 30-60 years if your lucky you can end up dying of some painful disorder such as cancer, of other disorders. now, im not here to condemn anyone over the age of 18 who smokes. Who knows maybe when i am over the age of 18 and they have made a way to cause cigerettes to be less damaging maybe i will smoke.