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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 edIII on Tuesday February 05 2019, @08:19PM
Bull-fucking-shit.
You're talking about a behavior that spreads known carcinogens (CANCER). Fuck the smokers up the ass with a 100ft telephone pole, sideways. Last week I saw something I'd NEVER seen before, and that was some asshole that was smoking in public in his truck, take his cigg and throw it in the back. The rest of my life, those fucking assholes throw the butts on the ground. It's a goddamned menace and a disaster for the environment. The existing restrictions are wholly ineffective. They're the most entitled fucking children on the planet. They will smoke outside within 20ft of a building and not give a fuck, nor do they give a fuck where they throw the used butts. I can't escape those bitches either, the smoke is everywhere in my city, and the only thing that makes me feel better, is that it is highly likely they will die horribly. Good.
I like your libertarian attitudes and freedom of choice, as long as that freedom of choice includes ZERO PERCENT of the public spaces. You can't smoke within 1000ft of a building, 5000ft of a school or playground, and zero smoking in, or around, public buildings. That's not enough because they RUIN the hiking trails and outdoor spaces we try to enjoy. Nothing ruins my day faster than smelling cigg smoke. If Chuckles McFuckFace has to have a cigg, then he go to the fucking parking garage and get in his/her car to smoke. Or smoke at home. You shouldn't even be allowed to smoke outside in a parking lot, or especially directly outside the arrivals area at an airport. Those selfish sons of bitches expose the rest of us to possible cancer because they can't wait till they get home, or to a smoking room.
None of it makes any goddamn fucking sense, because you have vaping now. When I smoked MJ in public, I went out of my way to find the most remote areas so that nobody would be put out. Do smokers do the same? Fuck no. Now, both MJ and tobacco smokers can use vapes that are far, far, far less intrusive in outside public spaces.
No. Hawaii is doing a wonderful thing and fuck every smoker everywhere up the ass with a cattle prod. Repeatedly. American concepts of freedom do NOT mean to me that I get to spew carcinogens in public, or around people. There is ZERO redeeming features of those nasty fucking pieces of of literal shit those assholes put in their mouths.
Fuck smokers.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.