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Hawaii is considering a bill that bans cigarette sales to anyone under 100
(CNN) "The legislature finds that the cigarette is considered the deadliest artifact in human history."
So begins the text of a new bill introduced in Hawaii's State House, calling for a phased ban on cigarette sales in the state by 2024.
Hawaii has some of the most restrictive cigarette laws in the nation. In 2016, it became the first state to raise the age to buy cigarettes to 21. Now, its new bill calls for raising the cigarette-buying age to 30 by next year, up to 40, 50 and 60 in each subsequent year, and up to 100 by 2024.That would effectively clear Hawaii's store shelves of cigarettes, although tourists could still bring them in.
And curiously, Hawaii would offer its centenarians the chance to buy cigarettes near the end of their life -- if they could find them.
Can't we instead simply restrict kids under 100 to designated smoking areas?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:30AM (8 children)
What can you expect? Trample on a minority so that their group can appear all virtuous about themselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:34AM
End stage free market capitalism.
(Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:38AM (6 children)
Just like the way those Democrats have been suppressing minorities in the Deep South.
Oh, wait. That's Republicans, isn't it?
Yes, yes it is.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Captival on Tuesday February 05 2019, @03:03AM (5 children)
You haven't kept up on your news lately. The only politician who's actually wearing KKK robes anymore is Virginia Governor Northrup (D), and his sex offender Vice Governor (D). Neither has resigned as of yet.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @03:18AM (2 children)
I haven't figured this one out yet and why there is such an uproar (by all the snowflakes? butthurts?) The picture was taken around 1983, not that long ago. The 'Get the next click of outrage!' news media has portrayed it as the guy was at a real KKK rally or something.
But actually, if you look at the picture and the context of the others, it seems to be from a Halloween or dressup party, two guys(s) as a pair in their costumes, one as a smiley black guy in a loud musician costume, and the other guy a KKK costume hanging right next to him in a pose almost embracing, it is an interesting pair, and kind of cute, sort of like those 'pimps and hookers' costume balls or 'Pirates and Prisoners'..etc.
Is this country so sensitive that this even matters at all? Its a freaking dress up party?! [and if it is such a big deal, why no outrage everytime I hear the word 'nigga' daily in some rap song on those rap radio stations?]
P.S. this is how those dytopian radical islamic countries got the way they were..by too many butthurts along the way and trying to accomodate them all..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @05:25AM
Because it is funny to point out the lefts own insanity. I like seeing them justify this guy when they say that braiding your hair is racist cultural apropriation.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 05 2019, @05:18PM
If I had done that, my reaction to the media going apeshit would have been : "Yup, as a teenager I did a stupid insensitive thing 35 years ago. Sorry that it offended people, and I recommend that young people today learn and not do the same. Now, we understand that dumb teens grow into responsible adults. Back to our regular agenda, now, shall we?"
Like so many politicians before him, it's not what he did that bothers me, it's how he doesn't just own it, explain he was dumb, and move on.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @01:43PM
He didn't even keep up on his history. Democrats were the party of the KKK.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:11PM
I did a little digging about Virginia Governor Northrup (D), and as far as I can determine:
1: He seems to be a Democrat of convenience only. He voted Republican until he wanted to get into politics. Then he became a Democrat. You guys still need more political parties.
2: Who is criticizing his racist past? Oh, yes. It's the left. (Or what passes for the left in the US).