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Op-Ed: Why menthol must be included in ban on flavored tobacco

HB 756, a bill that could end the sale of flavored tobacco, could die if it doesn’t get a hearing by March 20. If there’s no hearing scheduled by the end of day today (due to the 48-hour notice rule), the bill is dead.

Hawaiʻi Health Department monitoring proposed ban on sale of menthol cigarettes

The CDC estimates that if menthol cigarettes were no longer available, an estimated 4,400 adults in Hawai‘i who smoke would quit smoking.

Youth Advocates Host Statewide March Against Menthol

An estimated 80 advocates participated in a statewide March Against Menthol, held Sunday afternoon at eight sites across the state, including a sign-waving event fronting the Queen Kaʻahumanu Center in Kahului on Maui.

Hawai‘i Attorney General Urges FDA to Ban Menthol Cigarettes

Attorney General Connors said: “We know menthol cigarettes make smoking more attractive and we also know that marketing of menthol cigarettes disproportionately impacts minorities.”