According to the CDC, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. Democratic representative Richard Creagan — an emergency room doctor — believes more needs to be done to ban "the deadliest artefact in human history." The proposed law, introduced by local Democratic representative Richard Creagan, would effectively amount to a cigarette ban by 2024. Creagan's proposal calls for raising the cigarette-buying age to 30 by next year, 40 in 2021, 50 in 2022 and 60 in 2023. "The state is obliged to protect the public's health," Creagan, who acknowledges smoking cigarettes during his medical studies, told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.

Source: Daily Nation February 05, 2019 06:11 UTC