I guess what I got most from this observation is just how lapse some laws can be when automation, machines, take over what used to be a human to human purchase. This feels as a kind of the reversal to how cigarettes purchasing had been.
For years people, anyone, who wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes could go to a cigarette machine, deposit their money and purchase a pack of smokes. I suppose if an adult saw a child or teen doing that, they could have tried to prevent that from happening, but I don’t think that occurred too often. Now, all cigarette purchases at stores happen at a sales counter, human to human, to prevent minors from buying them.
But Lottery tickets seem to be taking the reverse course. Like I say in the comic, for decades if you wanted to buy a legal, state lottery ticket you had to buy it at a lottery sales counter, human to human. Now though, with these lottery vending machines, it feels as if we’re going back to the cigarette vending machine days.
Weird.
