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Mr. Balsis: At this time, I'd also like to ask the petitionee that would be Dru <br /> Kanuha. If you wouldn't mind coming forward. Have a seat. <br /> Mr. Balsis: Please correct me if I'm wrong counsel the purpose of this session <br /> right now is to review the petition to see if we want to go further <br /> with regards to informal or formal hearing. Whether or not we're <br /> going to let it go at this time. So I just wanted to make sure that <br /> everybody understands that. At this point and time I liked to ask. <br /> Mr. Henricks: Before we proceed, I'd like to recuse myself from this particular <br /> petition. I don't know if everyone here knows, but Mr. Kanuha <br /> knows my son works work directly under Mr. Kanuha. At this <br /> time, I feel like I would be disqualified to hear this particular <br /> petition because of that reason. Since they do work close together <br /> I'd want to recuse myself from this. Thank You. <br /> Mr. Balsis: Yes. You are excused. We still have a majority, we still have <br /> three people here so we'll continue with hearing of the petition. <br /> Mr. Balsis: Mr. Revell. I'm gonna give you the floor to discuss your petition. <br /> Mr. Revell: Can everyone hear me? Thanks for having this session today. <br /> Before I get into the meat and potatoes of the whole situation here, <br /> I want to explain why I'm here. Some people may say, oh he's a <br /> retailer, he's only concerned about tobacco and he's part of big <br /> tobacco. I'm a mom and pop store. I'm a local boy who grew up <br /> here on the Big Island. My uncle's a judge, Shinichi Kimura and <br /> you guys may know him. My family are the Kimura's and there're <br /> from here. Three years ago, I watched my dad die from cigarettes <br /> and I own tobacco stores. All my life I seen him smoke. A big <br /> thing of this thing that my whole argument here is concerning the <br /> E-Cigs not the tobacco. Seeing your hero die right in front of you <br /> is really hard and I have a product that I've been selling since 2009 <br /> it's called electronic cigarettes. I don't know if any of you are <br /> familiar with how they work, but every day I sell one I save a life. <br /> You know the facts, there's two sides of the argument E-Cigs are <br /> bad and E-Cigs are good. Tobacco Free Hawai`i claims that we sell <br /> them to kids. They went on national public radio and said that <br /> they're under attack from the E-Cig industry who's comprised of <br /> two local mom and pop shops here on the Big Island. Insane. <br /> They're making a mockery of something that I hold personally and <br /> dear to my heart because this effects everybody. Effects moms, <br /> dads, children, you know their ability to be with them and enjoy <br /> life because I know how bad tobacco is. You know, I started this <br /> petition here, sent it in, whatever you call it because of the fact that <br />