Our kids deserve a vaping-free future

No parent or teacher can single-handedly fight the millions of dollars that the tobacco industry is spending on marketing and new vaping products to hook our kids. We need help. We need our legislators, our local businesses and our community to help us fight this youth vaping crisis in Hawaiʻi.

We need a comprehensive approach to eliminating the sale of flavored tobacco, including menthol, as well as taxes and regulation of e-cigarette products that are on par with other tobacco products currently on the market. We also need to fund tobacco education, prevention and cessation programs for our youth to ensure that we prevent the future health problems caused by today’s vaping crisis.

The legislature is currently looking at a handful of bills to address the youth vaping crisis and we urge our legislators to take action now. We cannot wait until vaping further locks our keiki into the grip of addiction. Our kids deserve an addiction-free future.