HONOLULU (KHON2) — Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi signed Invoice 1 into impact to ban the sale of natural cigarettes to these beneath the age of 21 years outdated.
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Officers mentioned the invoice was signed to shut the present Hawaii tobacco legal guidelines loopholes. Since natural cigarettes don’t include tobacco or nicotine, people beneath 21 had been in a position to buy the product.
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In line with stories, natural cigarettes are dangerous to at least one’s well being however makers market the product to be linked with well being advantages because of the inclusion of natural substances.
Natural cigarettes are yet one more insidious and dangerous product that makes use of misleading advertising and marketing to focus on our youngest residents. We’re proud to signal Invoice 1, and we are going to take decisive steps to guard the well being of our communities and our keiki each probability we get.
Mayor Rick Blangiardi
In line with Councilmember Tyler Dos Santos-Tam, the state has been engaged on making it more durable for younger individuals to buy many of those merchandise.
“Our neighborhood’s youth advocates are presently preventing for both statewide laws to remove the flavored tobacco merchandise that focus on our youth or a restoration of counties’ means to control tobacco merchandise in gentle of Honolulu’s lately handed Invoice 46 (2023). This measure additional reveals that the Metropolis and County of Honolulu is ready to move and implement legal guidelines that defend our youth,” defined Councilmember Matt Weyer.
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Reviews mentioned Invoice 1 requires indicators to be posted for companies that promote natural cigarettes and should notify clients of the brand new ban on gross sales for these beneath 21.
