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North Carolina, for its part, outlawed the sale of e-cigarettes to minors in 2013. Researcher Rebecca Williams from UNC-Chapel <br />Hill wanted to find out how effective this law was in preventing minors from purchasing e-cigarettes online. <br />To test this, her team recruited 11 teenagers from 14 to 17 years old to try to purchase e-cigarettes over the internet. The research <br />is described in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. <br />The research <br />The team identified 98 online e-cigarette vendors for the study. They then allowed the 11 teens, under supervision, to attempt to <br />buy e-cigarette products from the different vendors. <br />Of the 98 purchase attempts, only 5 failed due to age-verification requirements. <br /> <br />NC State Fair Premium List, 1893. Image courtesy of Government & Heritage Library, North Carolina State Library, via Flickr <br />Creative Commons <br />In fact, more than 80 percent of vendors either did not attempt to verify age, or used clearly ineffective means of verifying age, <br />such as offering a check box. The only consistently effective age-verification techniques that Williams and her team found were <br />requirements to enter a date of birth in conjunction with a social security number. <br />Williams is a researcher at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Center for Health Promotion and Disease <br />Prevention. She has done similar studies on youth access to conventional cigarettes and anticipated these results. <br />“The rate of success with e-cigarettes is similar to what we found with cigarettes,” she said. “So it didn’t surprise me at all that it <br />was easy to buy e-cigarettes online for teens.” <br />So why aren’t online vendors following North Carolina law? Williams explains that part of the issue is jurisdictional. <br />“When you’re making an online purchase, where is that purchase taking place? Is it taking place where the person who is <br />ordering is located? Is it where the website is hosted? Is it where the business is located?” she asked. “Those all may be in <br />different states and different countries.” <br />It can be tough to know where exactly the boundaries of enforcement fall when dealing with online purchases. It is also <br />exceedingly difficult to track down these vendors, many of whom operate internationally.
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