Attorney General will stop online cigarette sales to minors
The Attorney General was targeted online social networks asking for years, protection of minors. Now it is Web sites, sell cigarettes. It invites the government to make the race and delivery to customers minors.
“These sales are completed, without verification of age and without paying taxes,” Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said.
Smoking for cigarettes from the Internet and the minimum age and taxes, but it is the United States Postal Service provides, “he said.
The United States Postal Service is the only institution that continues to deliver cigarettes, as it claims, it lacks legal jurisdiction to refuse these shipments and Blumenthal Congress demand for postal services, that legal authority.
“The State of Connecticut loses millions of dollars as a consequence of these Internet sales, which can activate and promote, because the United States Postal Service, an arm of the federal government and provides ships of such cigarettes to man its doors, “said Blumenthal.
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