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From: Laura Guluzzy <writerlsg @gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 3:13 PM 10 14 NOV -3 AM 9: 18
To: Kanuha, Dru
Cc: Tami MacAller; Council Testimony
Subject: Bill 302
Attachments: Laura Guluzzy Ecig Dru Kanuha letter pdf.pdf
Aloha Dru,
Thank you for the discussion last week about Bill 302. I am so sorry that I will not be able to attend to give my
testimony in person but unfortunately will be off - island that day. Please see my attached letter as a follow up.
Kindest regards with warmest Aloha,
Laura
Laura Guluzzy, M.A. Gerontologist
Consultant /Caregiver Author
Office: (808) 326 -2100
Cell: (650) 242 -6000
Email: writerlsg_L&gmail.com
www.sagewiselaura.com
"I Shall Pass Through This World But Once, Any Goodness That I Can Do, Or Any Kindness That 1 Can Show
To Any Human Being, Let Me Do It Now, Let Me Not Defer Or Neglect It; For I Shall Not Pass This Way
Again. " Gandhi... and others.
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Laura Guluzzy, M.A. Gerontologist
Consultant /Caregiver Author
P.O. Box 1222, Kailua -Kona, HI 96745
Residence: 75 -202 Malulani Drive, Kailua -Kona, HI 96740
Email: writerlsg @gmail.com Website: www.sagewiseloura.com
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October 30, 2014
Dear Honorable Hawaii County Council Member Dru Kanuha,
As a follow up to our discussion last week, I would like to express my strong support of Hawaii
County Bill 302 to integrate electronic smoking devices (ESD) into all Hawaii County Smoke -Free
and Tobacco -free ordinances. Using and ESD is a choice for the user but not for the innocent
bystander who inhales ESD aerosol as I have twice.
There is peer- reviewed and evidenced -based research that ESD's do not emit harmless vapor. I
have experienced it first -hand when a person riding next to me in a golf cart exhaled an ECig
and I accidentally inhaled the vapor, and developed a full -blown asthma attack after not having
had one in over a year and a half. I experienced another incident while at the airport when
passing by a person at the end of the crosswalk who was smoking from a 6 -inch vaporizer who
turned and exhaled directly at me causing me to hold my breath and keep walking, fearing that
I would have another asthma attack. I have no idea what he was smoking in there either as they
can load even crystal meth into them. I also worry about Eco damage to our parks & beaches.
Because of the unknown issues to our health, beach and parks eco damage, and children
modeling after their elders, I am wholeheartedly in support of Bill 302. We are setting the
example for the generations behind us. Simply saying, as some Ecig users do, that it is better
than smoking real cigarettes is naive. We don't want to be the generation who supported
something with so many negatives to our striving for a healthy Big Island society. Our hospitals
are running over with health issues for the elderly. We need to set our children up to be
healthier longer. We already have issues to our healthy air with the vog, do we really need to
test our lungs even further?
I ask for your wholehearted support in voting for Bill 3021
Thank you.
Kindest regards with warmest Aloha,
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Laura Guluzzy, M.A. Gerontologist