SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM: Sabrina Olaes, left, a high school senior who supports raising the legal smoking age, reacts with Lyndsey Garcia, center, of the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii and Cory Chun of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network outside the Hawaii Legislature after it passed a bill to raise the legal smoking age to 21 on Friday, April 24, in Honolulu. If Gov. David Ige signs the bill, Hawaii would be the first state in the nation to raise the legal smoking age to 21. – Hawaii’s governor signed a bill raising the legal smoking age statewide to 21, the first U.S. state to do so.