{"id":23235,"date":"2010-12-02T19:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/philadelphia_targets_underage_smoking\/"},"modified":"2010-12-02T19:36:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:36:47","slug":"philadelphia_targets_underage_smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23235","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Philadelphia targets underage smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Maiale of Big Nick&#8217;s Cold Cuts in Philadelphia does not sell cigarettes to anyone under age 18. Not that he doesn&#8217;t get asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get them every day,&#8221; he says of teenagers trying to buy cigarettes despite the law against selling to minors. &#8220;I have to card twice a day.&#8221; Only once, he says, has the deli been fined for selling to a kid. &#8220;My wife got caught&#8221; by a teen who looked older, Maiale says. &#8220;I could&#8217;ve killed her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Philadelphia is an easy place for kids to buy cigarettes illegally. When undercover shoppers for the city&#8217;s health department \u201d\u201d local high school students posing as customers \u201d\u201d try to buy cigarettes in one of the city&#8217;s 4,300 tobacco retailers, they succeed at least 25% of the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/yourlife\/health\/medical\/pediatrics\/2010-12-02-phillysmoke02_ST_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Maiale of Big Nick&#8217;s Cold Cuts in Philadelphia does not sell cigarettes to anyone under age 18. Not that he doesn&#8217;t get asked. &#8220;I get them every day,&#8221; he says of teenagers trying to buy cigarettes despite the law<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23235\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,615,104,151,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}