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, f , f i 1 REVISED: I 1ST DRAFT DATE: I ii i . B . NO• i i 4 3 A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS. 1 I` i BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII: 1 a 1 f 2 SECTION 1. The legislature finds that tobacco use remains the 8 3 leading cause of preventable death in the United States and in 4 Hawaii. Recent years have brought a precipitous increase in t ' 5 consumer sales of electronic smoking devices, sometimes called 6 "vapes", and one inhalation of these products can contain many f 7 times more nicotine than a conventional cigarette. Electronic £ 1 8 smoking devices have played a major role in increased rates of ; 1 9 youth nicotine addiction, which had been previously on the 10 decline. a 11 s 12 This increased youth tobacco prompted Hawaii to adopt laws to 13 increase the smoking age to 21 years old, and treat electronic a 14 cigarettes in the same manner as the state treats conventional 1 15 cigarettes for purposes of clean indoor air laws. The state and I 16 the County of Hawaii, County of Maui, and City and County of 17 Honolulu have also adoptedsmokingincluding a p policies to ban - 4 18 electronic cigarette use - at state and county beaches and i 19 parks. k 20 21 In 2018, in order to ensure uniform regulations on tobacco 22 sales, the legislature passed Act 206, which, in part, declared t 23 the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking x 24 devices a matter of statewide concern, and nullified any 25 existing local ordinances or policies that restricted the 'sale . 26 of these products. However, the legislature finds that since the 27 Act' s passage, youth tobacco use has continued to increase to 0 28 epidemic levels. According to the 2019 Hawaii Youth Risk s 29 Behavior Survey, thirty-one per cent of middle school students s i F F F i f