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Bill would ban cigarette sales to anyone under 100 in Hawaii
2019-02-06
[NYPOST] Cigarettes in Hawaii may soon go up in smoke ‐ thanks to a proposed bill that aims to bar sales of them to anyone under the age of 100.

"The legislature finds that the cigarette is considered the deadliest artifact in human history," states the bill, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Richard Creagan. "The cigarette is an unreasonably dangerous and defective product, killing half of its long-term users."

The bill adds that the Aloha State is "suffering from its own addiction to cigarettes in the form of the large sums of money that the State receives from state cigarette sales taxes, with the tax revenues recently reaching more than $100,000,000 per year."

Posted by:Fred

#11  Tourists will be excempt..terrific,...another black market like what happened in Canada.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2019-02-06 23:02  

#10  Wonder how this will play among asian tourists.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-02-06 14:42  

#9  What about worm dirt pouches and chew, as well as vapor? Did they close those loopholes, or are they too dense for that?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-02-06 13:42  

#8  Right, Steve, so somebody is just showing how virtuous they are.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-02-06 11:06  

#7  The elephant in the room is the tax revenues recently reaching more than $100,000,000 per year

No way are they going to give that up.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-02-06 10:34  

#6  way cheaper on the Rez
Posted by: 746   2019-02-06 10:30  

#5  All the time i was in NM, I was buying cigarettes on the Reservation.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-02-06 10:13  

#4  Not applicable to federal military reservations. I recall black market issues like this back in Europe circa 1970s.
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2019-02-06 08:05  

#3  Cigarettes are bad because they don't make people stupid or easier to manipulate fast enough. For that you need the ganja.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-02-06 07:45  

#2  They're competing with California who's crazier?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-02-06 03:03  

#1  Trying to kill a mouse without noticing the elephant volcano in the room.
Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365   2019-02-06 01:34  

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