February 5, 2019 Charlie Minato Regulations,  Retail

Hawaii Online Tobacco Ban Bill Introduced Again

An effort to ban the online sale of cigars and other tobacco products in the state of Hawaii has once again been introduced.

H.B. 387 would ban non-face to face for consumers, meaning residents of Hawaii could no longer purchase cigars and other tobacco products online or from mail-order catalogs. This bill will affect cigars and other tobacco products, the mailing of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco from stores to consumers is already banned federally.

This is at least the third consecutive year this proposal has been introduced.

In addition to banning online sales, the bill would increase annual fees for retail tobacco permits from $22.50 per year to $270.

The bill has passed its first committee vote with seven for and one exemption.

Catalog Cigar Sales H.B. 387 Hawaii
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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.

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