The Naperville Police Department recently completed a round of tobacco/alternative nicotine product compliance checks June 7 and 8. The compliance checks were performed at 73 Naperville businesses to determine if local tobacco/alternative nicotine product retailers are complying with the minimum-age tobacco laws that prohibit the sale of tobacco/alternative nicotine products to persons under the age of 21.
Seventy-one establishments passed the compliance check. The following two establishments failed to successfully pass the compliance check, resulting in City ordinance citations for selling tobacco/alternative nicotine product to a person under the age of 21 years old:
• Smoke Arena, 1570 W. Ogden Avenue.
• Smokers Choice, 803 E. Ogden Avenue.
With the help of a grant awarded by the Illinois Department of Human Services Tobacco Enforcement Program, the Naperville Police Department educates local tobacco/alternative nicotine product retailers on minimum-age tobacco/nicotine product laws and the importance of verifying the age of customers before selling age-restrictive products such as tobacco/alternative nicotine products. Tobacco/alternative nicotine product retailers are given a retailer education packet and notified that the compliance checks are going to occur in the near future.
—City of Naperville government