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Hawaii Smoke Free:: The Law Page 1 of 7 live, work, breathe You are here: Hawaii Smoke-Free Home > Hawaii Smoke-Free/The Law Home The Law The Law File a Complaint Hawaii's new smoke-free law will go into effect on November 16, 2006. For an overview of the law click here. To read the text of the full law click here. FAQ Business Center Report Title: - Benefits Smoking; Health; Secondhand Smoke - Toolkit Description: - Bars/ Restaurants Establishes a new chapter that protects the public health and welfare by prohibiting smoking in Signage places open to the public and places of employment, ensuring a consistent level of basic protections statewide from exposure to secondhand smoke. Repeals Chapter 328K, Hawaii Compliance Help Revised Statutes. Effective date November 16, 2006. (CDI) Helping People Quit THE SENATE S.B. NO. 3262 TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 S.D. 1 STATE OF HAWAII H.D. 1 C.D. 1 A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. The legislature finds that tobacco smoke is a major contributor to many health problems. Secondhand smoke causes heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease, and lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers. Thousands of premature deaths and illnesses in Hawaii are attributed to It annually. The legislature further finds that recent research demonstrates heightened health dangers to those exposed to secondhand smoke, since Hawaii passed a statewide anti-smoking statute seventeen years ago. In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory to persons with heart disease to avoid Indoor settings where smoking is allowed, which warrants increased protections in the workplace and for the public in general. The counties in Hawaii have adopted ordinances that offer varying levels of protection to workers and the public against secondhand smoke. The legislature acknowledges that a consistent level of basic protection from secondhand smoke is needed to protect Hawaii's citizens from the health dangers of secondhand smoke. The purpose of this Act is to protect the public health and welfare by prohibiting smoking in places open to the public and places of employment to ensure a consistent level of basic protections statewide from exposure to secondhand smoke. SECTION 2. The Hawaii Revised Statutes is amended by adding a new chapter to be appropriately designated and to read as follows: http://www.hawaiismokefree.com/the_Iaw.htmi 1/28/2008