• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    They used to have cigarette vending machines. An underage person could buy cigarettes from a machine, because it had no way to check your age.

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      Didn’t even need to use the machines, because most people didn’t care. When I wanted to walk to the store in my teens, my mother would give me extra money to pick up cigarettes for her. Cashiers always sold them to me, no problem.

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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        Yep, I witnessed a mom send her 7-year-old child to the corner store with a permission note to buy cigarettes in 1984.