Attention Hawaii vapers. Youth vaping may have dropped in the last four year, but efforts to deny adults access to their preferred products have increased.

HB 1778 would ban the sale of vapor and all nicotine products in flavors other than tobacco. This bill would also undo a law requiring tobacco regulations be implemented statewide (known as “preemption”), as opposed to allowing municipalities to make up their own rules.

Click on the CASAA banner above to make your voice heard or here on their Stop the Hawaii Vape Flavor Ban. Follow the prompts, taking the time to either share your personal journey or sign off on CASAA'S prepared statement.

These are dead serious efforts to kill the vaping industry. Unless you want to be funneled back onto combustibles or only be permitted to choose between fake tobacco flavors in expensive gas station pod kits, it is imperative that you let your representatives know that you vape and you vote.

You can also go directly to the bill’s government website page, although you will need to create a free account. 

Flavor Bans Increase Cigarette Sales

A recent FDA study showed that flavor bans increase cigarette sales. Vapers know this first hand, as it is no accident that flavors popular with adults are the same as those found in every consumable from kombucha to hard seltzer.

With youth vaping nosediving since 2019, anti-vaping and anti-nicotine prohibitionists are on the clock to use their lobbying money to deny adult vapers access enact flavor bans. With ever more research coming out about how vaping outperforms nicotine replacement therapy products, flavor bans are in fact anti-scientific. It is strange that politicians who once claimed to “follow the science” when seeking to impose restrictions on adults now ignore the science instead, when also imposing restrictions.  

Adult vapers deserve better than a few fauxbacco flavors grudgingly allowed by ill-informed politicians. Access to age-restricted electronic nicotine delivery systems in palatable flavors should be a given. But will soon be taken away unless you demonstrate that your interests are not to be ignored.

Consumer freedom, entrepreneurship, customer choice and your pocketbook will take a huge hit if the Hawaii Flavor Ban is to pass. 

Hawaii Flavor Ban Bill Information

HB 1778 would ban the sale of vapor and all nicotine products in flavors other than tobacco. This bill would also undo a law requiring tobacco regulations be implemented statewide (known as “preemption”), as opposed to allowing municipalities to make up their own rules.

This bill is scheduled for a hearing in the House Health Committee (HLT) on

• Friday, February 2, 2024
• 8:30 AM
• VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE
• -and- Conference Room 329
• State Capitol
• 415 South Beretania Street

Advocates in Hawai’i are encouraged to submit testimony in opposition to HB 1778. You can do so by going to the bill page and clicking on the “Submit Testimony” button at the top of the page. You will need a free account with Hawai’i’s state legislature website.