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Español Investigations reveal that US local stores sell cigarettes to minors
While public opinion persists in being against on line cigarettes sales, deemed to be a viable way for youngsters to obtain cigarettes, in Long Beach (CA) the rate of success by youngsters attempts at purchasing cigarettes in local stores has hit 36%. And in case of failure in one store, the minor one can walk right into the next one.
This means that to a youngster in Long Beach needs to try three times on average before being successful at purchasing cigarettes at the local stores without any problems.
There is an italian town where the streetwalkers used to retreat with their clients into the seclusion of a small woods in a city park. When the local newspapers reported the story, the authorities immediately took the necessary measures to quickly solve the problem: they cut down all the trees. This removed the privacy and the jolly company had to move somewhere else.
Imagine that the U.S. Postal Service is not a Federal service, but State run, and that each of the 50 States has its own stamps and rates; so a person mailing a letter from Pennsylvania to New York would buy a stamp that only covered the travel to the Pennsylvania border.
