I’m in PA now and not feeling any of the heat yet. But I plan on co-living in HI for a couple years and then retiring there permanently. Right now they have implemented laws that are insane and being enforced. You can’t smoke within 20’ of any structure that has an opening. You can’t sit on your lanai and smoke and many of the beaches are posting non-smoking beach. You can’t be inside your condo which you own that shares a wall with another and smoke, let alone your lanai. They are trying to ban smoking in cars because of other cars around you. But here is the problem… They are going bat shit crazy on enforcing it. Fines for first offense is $100/$50 court, Second $200/$50 and third on $500/$50. If you can even find a smoking room in a hotel, which almost all have gone smoke free. It has to be a whole floor, but you can’t go out on the lanai and smoke. Police are blindly taking the word of others, and issuing these tickets, that you can’t dispute and bench warrants are issued for failure to pay. Funny thing is it doesn’t apply to jails; you can smoke all you want there. Oh and this also goes for medical marijuana, so a cancer patient who really needs this, can grow it but not smoke it.
How’s your state doing?
