Hawaii is considering a bill that bans cigarette sales to anyone under 100

CNN ^ | February 4, 2019 | Ryan Prior

[Ciaphas Cain]

(CNN)"The legislature finds that the cigarette is considered the deadliest artifact in human history."

So begins the text of a new bill introduced in Hawaii's State House, calling for a phased ban on cigarette sales in the state by 2024.

Hawaii has some of the most restrictive cigarette laws in the nation. In 2016, it became the first state to raise the age to buy cigarettes to 21. Now, its new bill calls for raising the cigarette-buying age to 30 by next year, up to 40, 50 and 60 in each subsequent year, and up to 100 by 2024.

That would effectively clear Hawaii's store shelves of cigarettes, although tourists could still bring them in.

And curiously, Hawaii would offer its centenarians the chance to buy cigarettes near the end of their life -- if they could find them.

[Rinnwald]

Then they can pry them from my cold dead hands. (Cough)

Don't give them any ideas. "See, we didn't ban guns because centenarians can still have them".

[Secret Agent Man]

There is no aspect of your life a politician doesnt believe they are allowed to control.

I look,forward to this countrys purge of socialists. I dont even care if i survive, i just want to take as many down to restore this country.

[Svartalfiar]

The legislature finds that the cigarette is considered the deadliest artifact in human history."

What about the wheel? I'm pretty sure more people have died in vehicle accidents, being shot by a tank, had bombs dropped on them, hit by naval fire (lots of wheels inside the ship!), yardwork accidents with a lawn mower or chainsaw, DUI, suicide (by a wheelgun, of course!), attacked by a guy in a chariot, and so on and so forth, than by someone smoking a cigarette. I think they should allow you to sell anything with wheels to people 100+!

[pigsmith]

“I lived in Hawaii for more than thirty years...

Years ago I knew a well driller who packed up his rig and left AZ for Hawaii to drill for water; he said ‘rock fever’ nearly drove him insane. Got over it, lived out his days there.

[Starcitizen]

Just like Singapore. Trying to ban all sales for life for anyone born 2000. Island people...

[Kickass Conservative]

A phrase you will never hear, “he died in a hail of Cigarettes”.

[KitJ]

Tobacco is legal to grow and harvest without government permission if its for yourself.

Back when on my uncle and grandfather’s land, mary jane grew in the wild. I’ve never tried any either, but I won’t ask my cousins whether they did.

Two or three tobacco plants in the right condition will yield enough for a couple average smokers annually. The trick is curing. Too arid where I live. The leaves have to be hung and humidified and cared for.

If you’re in a high humidity area, much easier.

Try an old frigerator for a sealed, humid, curing box.

A few searches on the interwebs will yield a volume of information on growing and curing your own tobacco.

As for the weed? I can’t help you there. Maybe kind of similar? We’d have to ask the pothead FReepers for advice there. Heh.

Then we can talk about how our political masters will determine what we can plant, and what we cannot.

By the way, opium poppies are illegal.

It’s a flower.

[Jamestown1630]

LOL! Thanks!

The first garden I grew was in a totally clay-and-rock space outside my grandmother’s apartment. I grew an enormous sunflower, lots of cleome, marigolds, chives (which lasted until we used them at Thanksgiving) and one beautiful pink crepe-paper-looking Poppy.

It was amazing to me that that poppy came up in that nasty soil. Actually, as a first city-girl experiment in growing things, it was all kind of amazing.

[hal ogen]

LIBS are lunatics .

[Windflier]

Au contraire, mon FReeper.

As the coiner of that phrase, please allow me to offer a slight correction:

It's, 'Au contraire, mon freep.'