A Hawaii state lawmaker has introduced a bill intended to effectively ban cigarette sales statewide.
State House member Rep. Richard Creagan’s (D) bill would raise the minimum smoking age incrementally each year to 30 in 2020, 40 in 2021, 50 in 2022, 60 in 2023 and 100 in 2024.
The current legal smoking age in Hawaii is 21.
Creagan told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald that he thinks the state is “obliged to protect the public’s health” through stricter regulations on cigarettes.
“We essentially have a group who are heavily addicted — in my view, enslaved by a ridiculously bad industry — which has enslaved them by designing a cigarette that is highly addictive, knowing that it highly lethal,” he said. “And, it is.”
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Creagan, a physician and a former smoker, also supports legalization of marijuana, according to the paper.
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