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Burlington vendors caught selling tobacco to minors 

Jump to full article: Wicked Local (MA), 2010-07-08
Author: Joanna Kaselis

Intro:

The Burlington Board of Health (BOH) recently received the results of a tobacco regulation compliance check done in May 2010, which revealed illegal sales of cigarettes to minors by eight out of 33 local vendors.

The violators include Exxon, Market Basket, Town Grocery, One Stop Mart, Winn Street Superette, CVS Pharmacy, Mobil and Texaco Citgo.

This compliance check was conducted by the Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program under the director of Sarah McColgan, director of the Tobacco Control Program for the Massachusetts Health Officers Association (MHOA) to obtain data needed to complete the required annual SYNAR report to the federal government.

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