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Smoking in Hawaii
Laws and Public Opinion
Smoking is banned in all restaurants,
most indoor public places, and some outdoor public places
in Hawaii. Smoking is still permitted in bars and nightclubs that
are completely separate from restaurants. A no-smoking
ban that would include bars and nightclubs is supported
by most of the people who live in Hawaii, but bar
and nightclub owners are concerned about what it would
do to their businesses, especially since a large number of
visitors from Asian countries are smokers. Most of the
laws against smoking in Hawaii are county laws, so
laws will vary a bit from island to island, but there
is a movement in Hawaii to pass more state-wide anti-smoking
legislation.
Honolulu County Smoking Laws
A 1997 Honolulu County law banned smoking in every workplace
except restaurants, bars, and nightclubs, and
in 2002 restaurants and bars within restaurants
were added to the ban. Smoking is also not
permitted in hotels (except inside certain hotel rooms),
elevators, museums, libraries, galleries,
hospitals, auditoriums, movie theaters, schools,
banks, retail stores, food courts rest rooms,
and common areas in apartment buildings. Outdoor
areas where smoking is not permitted include the Honolulu
Zoo, Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve, Koko Crater
Botanical Garden, and the outdoor Waikiki Shell
amphitheater.
Honolulu County's anti-smoking laws do not cover in stand-alone bars,
nightclubs, and private hotel rooms.
Hawaii County Smoking Laws
Hawaii County passed its first anti-smoking laws
in 1983 and 1995. Those laws banned smoking
in some public places and they also required restaurants
with a capacity of more then 40 persons to designate
a no smoking area. A 2004 law extended the Hawaii County smoking
ban to cover all enclosed places and workplaces,
all restaurants regardless of size, all bars within restaurants,
all areas of bowling alleys, all taxicabs, and all common areas of a hotel.
Smoking is still permitted in stand-alone bars, private
homes, and hotel rooms designated as smoking rooms.
Maui County Smoking Laws
In 1997 Maui County passed a law banning smoking
in some public places and in 2002 that smoking ban
was extended to cover restaurants. Public
places covered under the Maui County no-smoking laws include restaurants,
restaurant bar areas, elevators, hospitals, auditoriums,
movie theaters, museums, libraries, galleries, grocery
stores, drug stores, common areas in apartment buildings,
taxicabs, and public areas of hotels. Stand-alone bars
and nightclubs are not covered by the smoking ban.
Kauai County Smoking Laws
In 1987 Kauai County passed its first law restricting
smoking in certain public places, and in 2002 another
law was passed that added the dining area within restaurants
and large workplaces to that smoking ban. A law passed in 2003
extended the no-smoking ban to cover workplaces with more then
5 employees, bar areas within restaurants, and public places
such as museums, libraries, galleries, retail stores, schools,
banks, hospitals, common areas of hotels, and common areas
of apartment buildings.
Kauai County Restaurants are permitted to change their use from a restaurant
to a bar during specified and posted hours, and smoking is
be allowed during the bar hours. Smoking is also permitted
in smoking designated hotel rooms and bars not attached to restaurants.
For information about the anti-smoking movement on
Kauai, see the Web site of the
Tobacco Free Kauai Coalition.
Articles and News About Smoking in Hawaii
Hawaii Public Opinion is Against Smoking
Hawaii Considers Smoking Ban on Beaches
Study Says Fewer Hawaii Students are Smoking
Tobacco.org - Hawaii News
Smoke Free World - Hawaii News
Hawaii Anti-Smoking Laws
Timeline of Smoking Laws in Hawaii (PDF file)
Hawaii Laws on Smoking (PDF file)
University of Hawaii Smoking Policy
Organizations, Coalitions, and Programs
Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii
Other Anti-Smoking Coalitions in Hawaii
Healthy Hawaii Initiative
State of Hawaii Tobacco Prevention Program
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