Researchers at UC San Diego ordered vaping products to test whether deliveries followed federal and state laws. For the most part, they didn't.
To try to keep young people from becoming addicted to tobacco, Congress took two steps in 2020 to keep minors from posing as adults to buy vaping products online: It barred e-cigarette sites from delivering through the U.S. Postal Service, and it required whatever delivery service they did use to check the recipient's ID. The state of California added its own twist that year, banning most flavored tobacco products.
Of the successful deliveries, 80% were handled by the Postal Service, which shouldn't have carried any of them, the study found. An additional 9% came from services such as UPS and FedEx that have policies against delivering tobacco products. Finally, 93% of the deliveries were completed with no attempt to verify the buyer's age. In the vast majority of cases, the products were dropped off without any interaction between the buyer and the delivery person, according to the study.
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