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t 30 and forty-eight per cent of public high school students had 31 tried electronic smoking devices. The 2019 Hawaii Youth Risk 32 Behavior Survey also indicates that eighteen per cent of middle 33 school students and thirty-one per cent of high school students I 1 I 34 currently vape. 35 36 The legislature further finds that in order to end this youth 37 vaping epidemic, the state must work in concert with youth, F 38 parents, and educational institutions, and laws must be changed 39 at all levels of government to establish reasonable restrictions ' I I 40 on the sale of and access to these addictive products. 1 41 • 1 42 Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to reauthorize the : 43 counties to enact restrictions of the sales of tobacco products, 44 including electronic smoking devices, by inserting a sunset date 4 45 into Act 206, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. 46 a 47 48 SECTION 2. Section §328J-11. 5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is 1 49 repealed. 3 50 51 [Statewide concern. (a) Sales of cigarettes, tobacco products, 52 and electronic smoking devices arc a statewide concern. It in 1 a 53 thc intcnt of thc legislature to regulate the .gale of s• 3 54 cigarcttcs, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices in 55 c uniform and exclusive manner. 1 56 (b) All local ordinances or regulations that regulate 57 the sale of cigarcttcs, tobacco products, and cicctronic smoking 58 devices arc preempted, and existing local laws and regulations a 59 conflicting with this chapter arc null and void. Y 60 (c) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to 61 limit a county's authority under section 328J 15. ] 62 1 63 SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and 1 64 stricken. 65 66 SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon approval. 9 ! 9 � 6 f