Jump to full article: Pacific Magazine, 2008-05-23
Author: Giff Johnson on Majuro
Intro: Nearly all stores in the Marshall Islands sell tobacco products illegally to minors, the results of a survey in the two urban centers show.
Officials conducting the unannounced inspections said they were amazed to find that 93 percent of 129 stores illegally sold cigarettes and chewing tobacco to youth under 18 years of age.
"Before the survey, we guessed about 75-80 percent of the stores were illegally selling to minors," said Ben Graham, the coordinator of the surveys who was recently named the Marshall Islands ambassador to the United States. "The results blew us away."
The survey was part of a United States-funded substance abuse prevention and treatment program under the "Synar" Act
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