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posted by martyb on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-know-what-is-best-for-you dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2) by DrkShadow on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:39PM

    by DrkShadow (1404) on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:39PM (#796673)

    In fact, they should be -- especially if they're doing it 10 feet from an entry way and you can smell their crud 50 feet away.

    Some things it's acknowledged that a little bit of harm is acceptable in the case of a majority good. Everyone needs to drive (except, maybe, for the odd person who takes a bus -- which just externalizes the cost). To minimize it, cars' exhaust is subject to emissions standards, they're required to reside in designated areas, and they're moving to electric -- you can count on ICE's being essentially banned in the medium future, mostly for aspects of pollution.

    (Even so, I'd much rather stand within five feet of the exhaust of a car than within 20 feet of a smoker.)

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