If you live in Hawaii and fancy a cheeky dart, you might have to wait another 80 years or so.
The island already has some of the toughest cigarette laws in the world; you can’t smoke in any enclosed or partially enclosed buildings (including your own house or car), with entertainment events effectively being the only public space where you can smoke, given you find the smoking area.
That might be all about to change, however, with Democrat politician Richard Creagan, who is also a doctor, pushing to raise the legal smoking age to 100 by 2024.
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Not even Elon Musk, who has had some recent smoking adventures, would be able to bypass these laws should they come into effect.
The smoking demographic of Hawaii
Senator Creagan told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald that “we essentially have a group who are heavily addicted – in my view, enslaved by a ridiculously bad industry – which has enslaved them by designing a cigarette that is highly addictive, knowing that it highly lethal.”
The number of 100 won’t come in straight away, should the bill go ahead.
Mr Creagan is proposing raising the cigarette-buying age to 30 by next year, 40 in 2021, 50 in 2022 and 60 in 2023, with the century mark arriving in 2024, six years from now.
It’s time to stack up on your darts because even if your 40 you might be sneaking a cheeky puff behind your back shed soon.
Check out Time break down the bill, complete with stunning Hawaii visuals
