

Honolulu Star-Bulletin
February 11, 2010
EDITORIAL
Following a noisy and injurious New Year's Eve celebration, state legislators are poised to approve a statewide ban on consumer fireworks. The legislation would allow counties to opt out of such a ban but Honolulu's City Council should welcome such a prohibition and allow only organized pyrotechnics on special occasions.
A Senate committee has given its backing to a bill that would allow only religious or cultural fireworks displays. The proposal is supported by the Lingle administration, county police and and fire departments, the American Lung Association and numerous citizens who have had enough of deafening noise and suffocating atmosphere on celebration evenings.
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