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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
On smoking, time frame late 70's. My best friend and I started smoking. My dad caught us. Not only did we not get in trouble, he called the nearest 7-11 and told the manager that he held a lot of parties and would be sending us girls for cigarettes. The manager said ok but we couldn't pick up any beer.
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If memory serves me correctly, I think in Texas in the early and mid 1970s the law was tobacco could only be sold to 16 and older. But I think most of the store just ignored that law. I never saw any kid get carded or turned down. Perhaps if a small child tried to buy them, but not teenagers.
I turned 18 in 1976. By that year the laws lowering the drinking age were long in place so we could buy alcoholic beverages. So all through HS it was easy to find someone in school who was 18 and could buy it for you. We thought that was so cool back then, but now 4 decades later I see how incredibly stupid that was! I'm glad they raised it back up to 21.