Bill Text: HI SB2425 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Tobacco; Tobacco Products; Advertisements

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-17 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to EDT. [SB2425 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2425-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2312

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2425

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2425 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TOBACCO,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that for a place of employment where cigarettes or tobacco products are sold or offered for sale, with exceptions permitted for retail tobacco stores, bars, or establishments where the minimum age for admission is eighteen:

 

     (1)  Cigarettes and tobacco products shall be stored for sale behind a counter;

 

     (2)  Advertisements that promote or encourage the purchase or use of cigarettes or tobacco products shall be placed twenty-five feet away from children's products or toys or where cookies, candy, ice cream, gum, or snacks are sold; and

 

     (3)  Advertisements that promote or encourage the purchase or use of cigarettes or tobacco products shall be placed at least four feet from the floor.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Police Department, Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, Hawaii COPD Coalition, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, thirty-five representatives of REAL: Hawaii Youth Movement Exposing the Tobacco Industry (representatives also presented a petition with one thousand three hundred signatures), and sixty-two individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Hawaii Food Industry Association, ABC Stores, and three individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that there is a causal relationship between tobacco advertising and promotion and increased tobacco use and that retail venues have become the primary medium for the tobacco industry's marketing efforts.  Your Committee further finds that smaller stores are more likely to have tobacco advertisements at the eye level of children or near youth-oriented products and snacks and that frequent visits to stores selling and advertising tobacco increases the likelihood of teenagers being susceptible to start smoking.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Specifying that for establishments less than one thousand square feet, advertisements promoting tobacco must be at least ten feet away from certain items whereas for establishments equal to or greater than one thousand square feet, advertisements promoting tobacco must be at least twenty-five feet away from certain items; and

 

     (2)  Substituting the term "place of employment" with the term "establishment" as a technical amendment to more accurately describe the stores and other sites that were intended to be covered under this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2425, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2425, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Technology.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair