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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Rite Aid Corp., the nation's third-largest
drugstore chain, has agreed with 20 states, including Michigan, and
Washington, D.C., to enact policies in its outlets there to curb the sales
of tobacco to minors, officials said Wednesday.
"The states approached us and asked us to work with them," said
Jody Cook, a spokeswoman for Camp Hill, Pa.-based Rite Aid.
More than 80 percent of regular adult smokers began smoking as children
and an estimated 690 million packs of cigarettes are sold illegally to
children in the United States annually, Pennsylvania Attorney General
Jerry Pappert said.
"By entering into this legally enforceable agreement, Rite Aid is
committing to help law enforcement officials protect the health of our
children and make it harder for minors to buy cigarettes in Michigan,"
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said Wednesday in a news release.
Beginning in 2000, 30 attorneys general have focused their enforcement
efforts on retailers with poor records of selling tobacco products to
minors, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said.
Under the agreement, Rite Aid will pay $250,000 for the costs of state
investigations and install a number of policies in its stores.
For instance, Rite Aid will be required to train its employees about
smoking's health impact on youths, hire a firm to conduct compliance
checks for six years, and ban self-service displays of cigarettes and
smokeless tobacco products.
The agreement also requires that in-store advertising for tobacco
products be located where the advertised products are sold and be limited
to brand names, logos and prices.
Store managers must report all alleged violations to a compliance
officer within 10 days.
Rite Aid has about 3,375 stores in 28 states and Washington, D.C.,
including about 300 in Michigan. The agreement only covers about 2,900
stores in the participating states. Rite
Signing the agreement were attorneys general from Arizona, California,
Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Utah, Vermont and Washington.
In the past two years, attorneys general have engaged Sam's Club, Walgreen, Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil, and other chains in
similar agreements.
