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pharmaceutical companies that don't want E-Cigs around. They <br /> want people to continue to take Chantixs which is known to kill <br /> people. Just coming out now. Gums, patches and other susitation <br /> devices that consumers pay millions of dollars for. The State pays <br /> millions of dollars for these programs to stop smoking. When I <br /> found out this information, I felt really betrayed that why would an <br /> organization that supposedly wants people to stop smoking, stop <br /> them from using products that are more effective. So I wanted to <br /> talk to Mr. Kanuha about that and just ask him "Hey what's going <br /> on? I just want to find out facts as a constituent I just want to say, <br /> hey you're gonna vote how you're gonna vote, but I'd like to have <br /> my voice heard. Have my thirty plus employees voices heard and <br /> have my hundreds if not in the thousands of customers heard. <br /> Why are you making these laws that are hurting them, in a sense <br /> killing them? Now, there's other issues to the fact of bill, I forgot <br /> the first bill here was 135. Which made tobacco products, retailers <br /> can't sell tobacco products including electronic cigarettes with or <br /> without nicotine to people eighteen to twenty. Okay. Why? You <br /> know I have customers that come in that are diabetics that use <br /> electronic cigarettes with liquid containing no nicotine with such <br /> herbs like eucalyptus, Damiana and other herbs that are infused in <br /> the oils that help them open up their lungs. Why are they denied <br /> these products? <br /> Mr. Balsis: I just wanted to make this statement that why we're talking about <br /> the pros and cons of electronic cigarettes with regards to the <br /> petition. I think it's necessary to direct, be more direct to the two <br /> contentions that you have with Dru. <br /> Mr. Revell: Okay. Well <br /> Mr. Balsis: You understand. <br /> Mr. Revell: Sure. <br /> Mr. Balsis: Thank you very much. <br /> Mr. Revell: I'm sorry, I'm ranting and I apologize. I don't want to take up <br /> your guys' day. If you guys want to go have lunch later I down I'll <br /> catch the bill. You included Dru. It's no hard feeling man, I'm <br /> just here because I just wanted my voice heard and start off with it. <br /> Ordinance 1324, that's Bill 135. As a retailer, we had a meeting <br /> on June 2, 2014 regarding question and answer session. The <br /> problem is, most of my questions went unanswered that session <br /> was held by the County of Hawai`i and Coalition for Tobacco Free <br /> Hawai'i, which was unregistered as a lobbyist and had a heavy <br />