Shipping e-cigarettes or other tobacco products in Hawaii can land you in jail after Governor Josh Green signed new measures into law today.
Under the new legislation, a person who knowingly and unlawfully ships vaping and other tobacco products valued at less than $10,000 could face misdemeanor charges.
Anything valued above $10,000 would be classified as a class C felony.
The governor said this change will help to better regulate smoking products that enter the state.
“Tobacco is poison ok and tobacco use continues to be the single most preventable cause of disease that we could deal with, that we can affect when we make good decisions as policymakers, it causes death in the united states, so this is a monumental first step in protecting our keiki from big tobacco,” he said.
Any business selling vaping products must have a retail tobacco permit from the state. The new law takes effect on July 1st.