The legislature(立法机构) finds that the cigarette is considered one of the deadliest products in human history, so it begins a new bill introduced in Hawaii’s State House, calling for a ban on cigarette sales in the state by 2024.

Hawaii has some of the most restrictive cigarette laws in the nation. In 2016, it became the first state to raise the age to buy cigarettes to 21. Now, its new bill calls for raising the cigarette-buying age to 30 by 2020, up to 40, 50 and 60 in each following year, and up to 100 by 2024.That would effectively clear Hawaii’s store shelves of cigarettes, although tourists could still bring them in. The age limits would not apply to e-cigarettes, cigars or chewing tobacco.

And curiously, Hawaii would offer its centenarians (百岁老人) the chance to buy cigarettes near the end of their life — if they could find them.

Richard Creagan, the bill’s sponsor, said that he hoped the bill could represent an “end game” for the cigarette problem, and that it might be easier to pass the bill in Hawaii than in a mainland state.