BOSTON A Kentucky-based online cigarette retailer has been barred from
selling to customers in Massachusetts.
The web-based Dirt Cheap Cigs-dot-com was accused of selling to Bay
State teenagers without first verifying they were the legal age of 18.
The judgment was entered today in Suffolk Superior Court.
Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly says the settlement also
resolves allegations that the Web site sold illegal unstamped cigarettes
without disclosing liabilities to consumers.
The charges against the Kentucky company were first made in a 2003
lawsuit filed as part of an undercover investigation into online cigarette
sales.
As part of the settlement, the company must also pay 125-thousand
dollars to a state consumer aid
fund.
