NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]

Doesn't this seem like a sad statistic? That 20% of the stores tested were willing to sell cigarettes to minors? Now keep in mind that these are minors that the clerks didn't know.

Imagine what the statistic would be like if a teenage clerk who smoked were asked to sell to his or her friends? Maybe if they reiewed video tapes they might get a more realistic stat.

You have to remember that they only took this poll after running that youth stop smoking campaign months prior to their poll? Suspicious at best down right underhanded in reality.

This is why I say cigarettes should only be allowed to be sold by licences establishments. They have the infrastructure to check ID's. They could use the extra revenue from cigarette sales due to the loss caused by the smoking ban. The sales person also has to be over age unlike the corner stores.

This would also be an added incentive to butt out IMHO.