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teenagers were told there wouldnt be a sale jn each of the locatstores a sign stipulating that tobacco products cannot be sold to anyone under 19 years in ontario is posted in full view stores obeying the law by refusing to sell cigarettes to the stoufrville teens were stoufrville variety and gas convenience market and bj variety all at the east end of town at macs milk the ab 1001 varietyfbi way luckys stouffville variety and smoke at the west end of town vandorf general store and odessey convenience both in vandorf petro canada at woodbine and aurora road the esso station and eagle convenience both in ballantrae and sunnys variety and video at musselmaris lake r owners of the local service station and the ballantrae market were upset to learn that teens bought smokes at their places both business owners said theyd call the staff togeth er review the law and emphasize the importance of not sell ing tabacco products to minors both darlene keates and helen tunning of york regions health services can offer the merchants tips in this exercise owners are responsible for training their staff with regards to the requirements of the tobacco act keates said york regionwide a test of 1 1 1 tobacco vendors represent ing 10 per cent of all merchants was carried out of those 32 stores were willing to sell tabacco to a test shoppers when it comes to the law york regions compliance rate was 79 per cent last year healm services reports iamong teen smokers asa whole there has been a major increase since 1994 in the extent to which friends and rela tives including parents are a source of cigarettes health canada reports at the same time there has been a decline among teen smokers who use the local store as their source of cigarettes health canada added two years ago york regions health department launched a smoke buster campaign four teens ranging in ages from 15 to 17 years were deputized to help catch merchants selling smokes to minors the test shoppers and tobacco enforce- ment officers conducted surveillances across york this regionwide campaign and other law enforcement exercises resulted in 100 court convictions against people supplying cigarettes to minors and storesselling smokes to people younger than 19 meanwhile about 33 charges were laid against teens smoking in prohibited places a total of 20cases remain before the courts last year the fines handed put to merchants and adults buying cigarettes for minors averaged 180 and 50 for smoking in a prohibited place most of the teens were caught smoking in prohibited places such as churchyards c a merchant is subject to the maximum fine of 10000 while someone caught smoking in a prohibited place could face a maximum 1000 fiwin keeping with the act if a merchant is convicted two or more times of selling tobacco to a minor the right to sell tobacco will be whoweare money concepts is a canadian financial planning organization established in 1985 with over 100 independendy owned franchises throughout the country 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