The News-Record reports on the health department undercover operation that included a teen boy seeking to buy the tobacco products:
Maplewood stores that sell cigarettes to minors could soon be in trouble.
The municipal health department is in the midst of its annual sting
operation to see who is complying with the law against selling to anyone
under 19 years old, health officer Robert D. Roe said.
Roe said nine of the 10 businesses surveyed complied with the
law when he sent a teenage boy into their stores over a span of a couple
days three weeks ago. Roe declined to identify the store that did not
comply until the municipal court case is finished. The store owner was
issued a $250 fine.
“I’m hoping that the $250 fine teaches a lesson,” Township
Committeewoman India R. Larrier, who is also president of the local
Board of Health, said in an interview. “It’s encouraging to me that out
of 10, only one failed.”
Roe said he plans to follow up with 10 more stores as part of what he calls “tobacco age of sale enforcement.”
Roe has been testing stores for more than 15 years. He said he
first used the program on a test basis without issuing fines in 1995 at
10 stores. In all 10 cases, the stores sold to minors.
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