An undercover operation in California found that half of tobacco and vape shops failed to check IDs for teens purchasing e-cigarettes and other nicotine products, despite a state law raising the legal age for purchasing tobacco products to 21.
Researchers sent 18- and 19-year-old"decoys" into stores without ID, instructing them to tell the truth about their age if asked. The teenagers then attempted to purchase vape products -- e-cigarettes or e-liquids with nicotine -- and a chaperone watched to see if the store asked for ID and made a sale.Almost half of tobacco and vape shops illegally sold nicotine-containing products to the teens, according to the research, published Monday in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics.
"We need to commend the FDA for trying to solve the epidemic of youth vaping by restricting the retail environment for these products," said Henriksen, who co-authored the new study on IDs."What we're worried about," she said,"is concentrating sales in stores with the worst record [of age verification and illegal sales] without stepping up enforcement significantly."CNN's Susan Scutti and Michael Nedelman contributed to this report.
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