Nick Maiale of Big Nick’s Cold Cuts in Philadelphia does not sell cigarettes to anyone under age 18. Not that he doesn’t get asked.
“I get them every day,” he says of teenagers trying to buy cigarettes despite the law against selling to minors. “I have to card twice a day.” Only once, he says, has the deli been fined for selling to a kid. “My wife got caught” by a teen who looked older, Maiale says. “I could’ve killed her.”
But Philadelphia is an easy place for kids to buy cigarettes illegally. When undercover shoppers for the city’s health department ”” local high school students posing as customers ”” try to buy cigarettes in one of the city’s 4,300 tobacco retailers, they succeed at least 25% of the time.
“Kids, not surprisingly, have less money than adults and are therefore more sensitive to price.” -Danny McGoldrick
Apparently this guy has not read any of the abundant resources that have noted the high amount of *disposable income* that kids have these days. They usually have plenty of money to keep up with rising prices in cigarettes, even if those who are legally able to buy them cannot. (BTW, personally I cannot stand cigarette smoke and try to stay far away from it)
But they will still be able to get marijuana for their headaches? L