STAND. COM. REP. NO.  301-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2025

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2025 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TOBACCO,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to prevent tobacco companies from targeting our young people by prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products that would make the use of these products more appealing to teens and young adults.

     The Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii and American Heart Association supported this bill.  The Department of the Attorney General submitted comments.

     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. 2025 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair