Crime & Safety
Fifteen Madison Merchants Pass Tobacco Compliance Check
Efforts on the part of teens to buy tobacco, part of the state's Tobacco Prevention Enforcement Program, are unsuccessful.
On March 28, 2012, the Madison Department of Police Services in conjunction with members of the State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services (DMHAS), Tobacco Prevention Enforcement Program (TPEP), conducted unannounced compliance inspections of establishments that sell tobacco products. The inspections were performed in an effort to determine compliance with state laws concerning the prohibition of the sale of cigarettes and/or tobacco products to youth under the age of eighteen.
Under the direction and supervision of DMHAS investigators, and underage youth, employed by the TPEP, entered the establishment and attempted to purchase tobacco products.
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A total of fifteen unannounced compliance inspections were conducted. Of this total, zero establishments were found to be in violation of Connecticut General Statutes, Sec. 53-344(b), Sale of Tobacco to Minors under Eighteen.
The following establishments were found to be in compliance with the law:
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, 1334 Boston Post Road
LLC, 1333 Boston Post Road
#4735, 633 Boston Post Road
#388, 613 Boston Post Road
Hendel’s Madison , 646 Boston Post Road
, Inc., 136 Samson Rock Road
, 142 Samson Rock Road
, Inc., 181 Boston Post Road
188 Boston Post Road
, 44 Boston Post Road
, 270 Boston Post Road
, 1276 Durham Road
, 1278 Durham Road
, 514 Old Toll Road
, 518 Old Toll Road
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