Because of secondary smoke. If you drink or gamble, that does not affect people around you.

Smoking always does.

Well, that’s just an added bonus. Killing two birds with one stone and all.

I’m not saying I’m against the ban - I actually am for it. I’m just saying that if it was good enough for older people to make an informed decision, why are we denying only the younger ones that right.

If we truly wanted to fix things, we should ban it for everybody. Not at some arbitrary age cut-off.

Last I checked, secondary smoke does not respect age limits.

Not only games. Goes for all electronics as well.

Sick of supporting your ‘old phones’? You’re required by law to disclose all binary blobs as source code to let somebody else pick it up the slack.

Feeling like bricking old Kindles? Fine, but users must be able to install alternative OS on your old device.

Not providing software updates for your TV anymore after you removed features? That’s your right, but so is the right of the effing device owner to install something else on it.

And it’s not just consumer electronics. (caugh John Deere caugh).

It’s the same reason that Age Gating is popping up all over the world.

It’s because fuck young people, that’s why. I got mine, I don’t care about you.