If A New Law Passes In Hawaii You Will Have To Be 100 Years Old By 2024 To Buy Cigarettes There

in #politics5 years ago

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Hawaii is looking to pass a new bill that they hope will eliminate smoking in the state by 2024 when you will have to be 100 years old to buy a pack of cigarettes. You will have to be 30 by 2020, 40 by 2021, 50 by 2022, 60 by 2023 then it will take a forty year leap to 100 in 2024.

The reason behind it was stated in the article as:

“We don’t allow people free access to opioids, for instance, or any prescription drugs,” said Creagan. “This is more lethal, more dangerous than any prescription drug, and it is more addicting. In my view, you are taking people who are enslaved from a horrific addiction, and freeing people from horrific enslavement.”

Well I guess that's all right for them as long as they have readily available the legal drug of alcohol, which also has that nasty habit of enslaving people to a horrific addiction but there will be no freeing those people from their horrific enslavement. Which by the way there's no free access to either just as there's no free access to cigarettes, killing yourself comes at a hefty price.

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They need new politicians. I think it's good to phase out smoking but that seems a bit extreme.

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