If you're under 18 and collect three citations for smoking, you can't get a driver's license. As can be expected, Utah cops are also writing tickets when they catch little jack-mormons indulging in the sin of smoke. But in most of the states in this foul nation, cops have better things to do than chase teenaged smokers. This is likely to change. Kids, as usual, have no rights and few legal privileges.
Holdouts are rare.
A singular example is Wyoming, where the state Supreme Court is sticking to a 1992 ruling dealing with the seizure of driver's licenses from underage drinkers. In the rest of the country, justice for the sake of teen smokers and boozers is about as popular as child rape. As a proud smoker, I've got no problem with people puffing if that's what they like. But I'm no supporter of the tobacco industry, a dirty business that's among the top contributors to the grim mess known as American democracy. And there is clear evidence showing the cigarette corporations happily backed Florida's teen-smoking cops.