![]() ![]() Tobacco retailers have been made aware of the regulations immediately after passage via a mailing in five languages explaining the new regulations and the risk of loss of tobacco sales privileges for those establishments that sell tobacco to youth three times within two years. In the past two years of compliance checks, 149 stores were caught selling to children between three and seven times. The new regulations that stores that sold to minors three or more times in two years would not be eligible to renew their sales permits went into effect in early 2017. If the teenager successfully buys a tobacco product, the Health Department issues a ticket and provides education to the establishment owner about the City’s tobacco youth sales laws and the consequences of violations, which include the potential loss of the store’s tobacco sales privileges. The Health Department conducts random compliance checks by sending teenagers into stores to ask to buy tobacco. ![]() Today’s announcement shows that we’re taking this danger seriously and protecting Philadelphia’s kids.” Stores that repeatedly sell tobacco products to kids are a clear danger to our neighborhoods. Many people suffering from tobacco addiction got hooked when a store clerk flouted the law and sold a child a pack of cigarettes, cigarillos, or an e-cigarette. ![]() Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said, “The number one killer in Philadelphia continues to be tobacco. Many of the stores that are losing their permits are concentrated in poor, minority neighborhoods in North, West, and Southwest Philadelphia. This number represents 6% of tobacco sales permits in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA–The Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced that 149 stores that have been selling tobacco products are not eligible to renew their tobacco sales permits in 2020, due to repeated violations of City regulations against selling tobacco products to minors. ![]()
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