Studies in Hawaii prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to children … 100 years

The state of Hawaii (United States) is planning to ban the sale of tobacco cigarettes to anyone under the age of 100, a limit that would be reached after the increase in the minimum age so that they can be compared progressively.

Under this measure, it would be necessary to have 30 years to cigarette buyers in 2020, then the minimum age would rise to 40 years in 2021, 50 years in 2022, 60 years in 2023 and finally 100 years in 2024, reported several local media.

Cynthia Thielen, Republican Congressman, one of the promoters of this legislative project, badured the newspaper today The Washington Post who is aware that the measure "will have a difficult course" but is "a first firm step what to take. "

Everything to "keep Aloha's state residents safe and sound," justified the representative.

The project is bipartisan and continues the state of Hawaii's attempts to prevent access to tobacco, the latter having already become the first territory of the United States. prohibit sale under 21 years old. In the bill, cigarettes are considered "the most deadly artifacts in the history of humanity. "

The Democratic Representative Richard Creagan, another actor of this reform, baderted that "there is a population group that strongly addictedenslaved by a ridiculously bad industry, which enslaved them by designing a cigarette that creates a strong dependence, knowing that it is very deadly "

"The state is obliged to protect public health," he said in a statement collected by a local television channel.

The measure, however, this would not apply to electronic cigarettes, whose consumption has increased significantly in recent years, no chewing tobacco.