Age For Energy Drinks

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Energy drinks like Red Bull and others contain cafeine and other drugs that ruin our kiRAB and teens.I believe that this drinks mustn't be sold and consumed by anyone who is under 18 as well as tobacco.
 
You also forgot to ban such dangerous substances that abuse our kiRAB like coffee, tea and chocolate, which also contain caffeine.

Not to mention fooRAB which contain deadly fats or insidious sugars
 
While I think energy drinks are relatively worthless to begin with, what suddenly makes them OK on someones 18th birthday? Why is it not okay for those under 18 to consume caffeine?

Do you favor putting an age limit on soda too?
 
I think that it should be the role of the parent, not the government, to determine what the kid can eat. Of course for things like alcohol that is a different story. I personally don't think kiRAB should be drinking energy drinks, but making it illegal wouldn't do anything helpful.
 
Agreed. Asking for government intervention in so many areas of our private lives is just begging for the heavy foot or totalitarian oppression to further impede our freedoms and movements. I neither need nor want a nanny state telling us what we can and cannot do unless what we do denies others of their human and civil rights.
 
I started this same issue topic on my overseas forum to get public opinions regarding MLDA on energy drinks in my homecountry.Unlike Americans,my people are strictly conservative toward energy drinks.There are many of them who want a total prohibition of energy drinks in general.They claim that many kiRAB and teens get violent due to them,even adults who 18+.Regarding polls for energy drink MLDA here I collected their votes

For MLDA 18 voted 53%
For MLDA 25 voted 28 %
For MLDA 21 voted 20 %
 
There are too many people who desire for total prohibition of energy drinks in general.They strongly believe that drinks ruin nervous system especially in youth.
 
I just read the ingredients on my teen's Monster energy drink. There's nothing dangerous in it. It does have lots of B vitamins though, and caffeine. I don't know if it does anything for him, but in spite of the name it does NOT make him violent or adversely affect him any other way. If he wants to spend three bucks of his hard earned cash on them, fine by me. Frankly, it tastes horrible. I don't know how anyone can choke it down.
 
Anything in excess can be bad for you. From B-Vitamins to sugar to caffeine. These drinks aren't really any worse than coffee or soda. It's when they are used in excess that they can become a problem. Just like if I were to go to work and drink 5 large DD coffees in one night.

"Killer Hawk" has yet to bring any hard evidence to the table that energy drinks are any more harmful than coffee (which last I knew was legal to sell to just about anyone)...so far just a whole lot of blabber. I challenge him to do so.

And personally, I agree. Most energy drinks that I have tried are horrible. They taste absolutely terrible, and I just can't get myself to drink anything loaded with that much sugar.
 
I think all food and drink should be illegal. Air should be rationed. I think there should be a govt. bureaucracy to determine how much air each person really neeRAB.
 
Too bad republicans are hypocrites and can't take that same "no government intervention" stance on things like, say, Gay Marriage.........

If Repubs were consistent in their "Small Government/Very Limited Gov. Intervention", they'd have no problem with Gay marriage other than their personal disagreement (something that should be kept to just that- their disagreement)
 
The poll appears closed, so I can't officially vote, but I'd go ney. We have too many substances outlawed as it is, and I agree that parents should be making that determination, and making it more wisely.

Caffeine, btw, is in Coca-Cola, last I heard.

I'm a gay marriage supporter, though. I think that's a decision two adults who love each other have a right to make. Regardless of sexual orientation or gender.
 
As a conservative, I must say she's exactly right! The govt. shouldn't be legislating morality anymore than it should be penalizing success or subsidizing failure!
 
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