While Congress, parents, the courts and various interest groups fulminate about children's access to pornography and other Internet content, little attention is paid to the most deadly product widely available on the Web -- cigarettes.
"As usual, Congress spends its time playing to the stands while failing utterly to display any leadership on pressing public health concerns," said ConsumerAffairs.Com founder and CEO James R. Hood. "Only Congress has the power to protect children from cigarettes online pushers, but it chooses to spend its time trying to put blinders on library patrons instead."
A recent survey of 88 online cigarettes sites found that only 8 percent required proof of legal age, with most sites asking only that customers click a button to "certify" that they were 18 or older.
Besides flaunting state laws prohibiting cheap cigarettes sales to minors, most Web tobacconists also fail to display the Surgeon General's warnings required in advertising and point of purchase and fail to charge state excise taxes, in effect contributing to the "normalization" of tobacco and undoing years of efforts to limit marlboro cigarettes to young people.
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