Can't Smoke, Can't Drink, What Can You Do, Chicago 18-Year-Olds?

Poor, 18-year-olds in Chicago.

It's becoming so that it's not even worth being 18 in Chicago. It might as well be a lame age like 14 or 19, and not 16, 21 or 25 (car rental spree, woo-hoo!).

Starting July 1, 18-year-olds can no longer buy cigarettes or other tobacco products in Chicago; the legal age has been raised to 21. Sure, you can travel outside the city limits or bum smokes off your 21-year-old friends. But that's not the point. It's the principle. Being 18 in Chicago shouldn't be adulthood with training wheels.

Take hear, 18-year-olds: There are still some privileges and vices available to you in the big city. Here's a quick list of what you can legally do:

• Buy and collect winnings from a lottery ticket
• Buy pornography
• Go to most strip clubs
• Work at a strip club
• Apply for a loan (so you can buy the lottery tickets and pornography)
• Get a hotel room
• Change your name
• Skydive and bungee jump
• Rent your own apartment or buy a home
• Donate blood (what's more fun than helping others?)

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