Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2048 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to protect our youth from becoming addicted to tobacco products and falling victim to the multiple health hazards resulting from tobacco use by banning the sale of flavored tobacco products in Hawaii.

The Department of the Attorney General, Department of Health, American Cancer Society, Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii, American Heart Association, and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill. The Cigar Association of America, Inc., opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting all reference to cigars; and

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 H.B. No. 2048, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2048, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.