An unlikely bill is that only people over 100 can buy cigarettes

February 5, 2019

"It's more lethal, more dangerous than any prescription drug, and it's more addictive," said the lawmaker who pushed the initiative.

In Hawaii a project to gradually increase the minimum age for the purchase of centenary tobacco by 2024.

The man wants to raise the age of purchase to 30 by 2020, 40 in 2021, 50 in 2022 and 60 in 2023. Finally, by 2024, Anyone wishing to buy a pack of cigarettes must be at least 100 years old.

Richard Creagan, is the Democratic legislator who intends to turn the Central Pacific volcanic archipelago into the first US state to virtually ban the sale of the product that he considers "The most lethal invention of humanity".

He smoked an electronic cigarette, exploded and died

"We have a group that is highly dependent, I see it as enslaved by a ridiculous and terrible industry that has enslaved them by designing a very addictive cigarette even knowing that it's deadly, and that's it", he told the newspaper Hawaii Tribune the parliamentarian, who is a doctor by profession.

On the other hand, Michael Siegel, Professor of School of Science, Boston University, said about the controversial project: "Because smoking rates are becoming very low, we can start thinking about what I call the definitive strategy, that is to say we are at the point where we can take the habit of just smoking a story".

Further increase in the price of cigarettes

according to United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of smokers decreased from 20.9% in 2005 to 15.5% in 2016, the last year for which national data are available.

"It's more deadly, more dangerous than any prescription drug, and it's more addictive"he claimed Creagan, who admitted to having consumed cigarettes while training as a doctor, to stay awake during long periods of study.