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Children say it is easy to buy cigarettes.
Retailers, when tested, are often willing to sell cigarettes. Surveys consistently report that approximately half of retailers are found to be willing to sell to an underage smoker when tested. Sales clerks who are under the legal age of smoking are much less likely to refuse to sell to an underage customer. Health Canada, December 1996.