Post from the Community: Lets help everyone by making it clear that you have to be 21 to buy tobacco in Wisconsin

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I’m Jacob and I’m 16 years old and I’m Shayla and I’m also 16. We’re both youth participants in the Wisconsin Wins Program. Wisconsin Wins is a program created to help reduce youth access to tobacco through retailer education and other methods.

As Wins youth inspectors, we work with the Milwaukee Police Department, the Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network, and the Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network, to conduct unannounced compliance checks on tobacco retailers…

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