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From: "Council Testimony" <counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us>
To: lanimakamae@yahoo.com
Subject: FW: Please vote to yes on Bill 365. - For Council
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:44:27 -1000
-----Original Message-----
From: Toni Ann Symons [mailto:t,~lrnor~~ y~hoc.~~n.]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 20063:25 PM
To: ounciltestimony@.o.t:awai.i.hi.us
Subject: Please vote to yes on Bill 365.
TO: HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL
RE: TESTIMONY IN SUPPORT OF BILL 365
Relating To Smoking In Certain Places In The County Of Hawai'i
Council hearing Dec. 20, 2006
December [date], 2006
My name is [Your Name and affiliation], and I strongly support Bill
365,
which would prohibit smoking at Kahalu'u Beach Park.
As a parent, I must commend the Council for addressing this important
issue.
As you already know, smoking is hazardous to health. Because of this
health
risk the State enacted one of the strongest secondhand smoking-law in
the
nation prohibiting smoking in virtually all workplaces and in enclosed
and
partially enclosed public places. However, smoking is still permitted
in
nearly all parks and beach parks within the State, thus our keiki
continue
to be endangered to the hazards of secondhand smoke.
Additionally, discarding cigarettes and cigar butts onto our beaches is
unsightly, unclean and particularly hazardous to small children who
handle
and sometime ingest them. Finally, I am personally repelled, not only
by
people who smoke on our beaches, but also by the sight of cigarette
butts
accumulating in the sand.
It is for the reasons I've noted above that I strongly encourage the
Council
to vote yes to pass Bill 365. Let's have at least one beach on t rfto Na,
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