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Vending Machines have evolved over the years, and can now be found all over the world.

The rise in underage children purchasing cigarettes in on a rapid increase, in part because of tobacco vending machine sales.

Case studies have proven that many underage children are successfully purchasing tobacco from machines, proving that tobacco vending machine sales do contribute to the rapidly growing problem of underage tobacco use.

Numerous surveys and studies show that many young people are successfully able to purchase cigarettes from vending machines, even in areas that have enacted laws that require the use of locking devices, and areas that have laws restricting the placement of tobacco vending machines.

In 1994, the Surgeon General's Report looked at nine studies of vending machine sales, and they found that underage children were successful in purchasing cigarettes from vending machines 88% of the time.

They also concluded from the nine studies of vending machine sales, that younger smokers are more likely to obtain cigarettes from vending machines, than the older teens are.

A study done by the National Automatic Merchandising Association, the trade association for cigarette vending machine businesses, confirms the previous studies that cigarette vending machine sales contribute to the growing increase of young smokers.

The study found that 16% of teens purchase their cigarettes from vending machines. That is over a million teens.

The easiest solution to stop the increased tobacco vending machine sales to minors is to ban the tobacco vending machines all together. But that is not practical.

There are people who depend on tobacco vending machine sales to earn their living, who strongly oppose a ban.

Tobacco vending machines suggest a universal availability of cigarettes to society.

It is often difficult to attach responsibility and liability to an individual for minors purchasing tobacco by illegal vending machine sales. A store clerk may also feel differently about the responsibility of catching a minor buying cigarettes from a machine, and the responsibility of selling the tobacco to them personally, over the counter.

The underage use of tobacco is on a constant rise. Tobacco vending machine sales have been proven to contribute to his growing problem.

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