Thursday, July 26, 2007
Ouch
Smoke inhalation!
The youth-cop team visited 32 shops of all sizes across Berkeley, and six stores, or 18.75 percent, sold tobacco to an underage decoy.
Marcia Brown-Machen, the Tobacco Prevention Program director, said she believes in the effectiveness of the program.
"I think that (the sting) serves to really educate the merchants and really decrease the sale if they have been surveyed in the past," she said.
In a sting conducted last year, only two out of 34 stores sold tobacco to the youth decoy. Haha. The Daily Cal should do things like this more often, such as when activists make ridiculous claims.
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