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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: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 05 2019, @05:47PM (8 children)
At least in Hawaii, the assholes littering everywhere with their god-given entitlement to throw their cigarette butts (often with half the tobacco left) don't start major wildfires.
Instead, those butts just end up in the ocean, where the filters take their 5-10 years to degrade (according to Phillip Morris) polluting the reef and the fish.
Freedom ... At least pot people tend not to waste, and pollute a lot less.
(Score: 2) by slinches on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:11PM (3 children)
What's your point? It is already illegal to litter and start wildfires. If you have a problem with the lack of enforcement of those laws, so do I.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:19PM (2 children)
Hawaii is enforcing the littering law by making the filters illegal. A bit like plastic bags, straws, and bottles, but with a lot of lost tax revenue.
And you know that if politicians give up on established tax revenue, it must be that they have a significant problem they have to address.
(Score: 3, Informative) by slinches on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:34PM
Except they aren't making filters illegal, they are making cigarettes illegal which may or may not include a filter. It's a ban on the most popular form of tobacco product because of the health concern to the user and it is stated that way in the text of the bill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:20PM
so you admit they are dishonest cowards/thieves. good to know.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:39PM (3 children)
Littering actually harms the public.
Smoking on your own back porch, doesn't.
I say we regulate the first, not the second.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by dry on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:56PM
There's been talk of having a deposit on cigarette filters here. At least it would give the homeless a source of income.
The worst litter I see walking around my neighbourhood is Tim Horton's cups and McDonald's crap, as well as beer cans. 6 miles to the closest Timmies and stupid jerks have to throw them out their window.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 05 2019, @07:10PM (1 child)
Any smoking harms my insurance rates. We should make Big Tobacco pay medical expenses for all the lung cancers that are not caused by coal, household products, Big Agriculture and its suppliers, ikea, container ships, asbestos, and smog... Easy solution, really !
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:23PM
if it weren't for slaves like you people could have cheap and high quality private health care. insurance? what a bitch.