{"id":83956,"date":"2020-01-28T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=83956"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:01:10","slug":"oxford-mississippi-businesses-cited-for-selling-tobacco-and-vaping-products-to-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-mississippi-businesses-cited-for-selling-tobacco-and-vaping-products-to-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Mississippi Businesses Cited for Selling Tobacco and Vaping Products to Minors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, the <strong>Oxford Police Department, Mississippi Attorney General\u2019s Office, Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/strong>, and <strong>Lafayette County Metro Narcotics<\/strong> conducted electronic smoking device\u00a0compliance checks. In recent weeks we have received information about stores selling tobacco and vaping products to minors. Through our investigation we were able to identify and cite several businesses under\u00a0Mississippi Code 97-32-51, Prohibition of the distribution of alternative nicotine products to minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our community of law enforcement officers are committed to protecting our youth and being proactive in deterring businesses from selling these products to minors. We have seen an increase in vape related illnesses on our school campuses this year. We will continue to create awareness surrounding the health concerns of vaping and tobacco products as well as actively investigate complaints of illegal sells!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Businesses that were in compliance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mobile University Ave.<br>Exxon University Ave.<br>Discount Tobacco N. Lamar<br>Oxford Spot N. Lamar<br>Shell Sisk Ave.<br>Chevron S. Lamar\/University<br>BP Hwy 334<br>James Food Center Jackson Ave.<br>Kangaroo Express&nbsp;<br>Texaco University<br>Sam\u2019s Cellphone Jackson Ave.<br>Circle K Thacker Loop<br>Circle K Hwy 278<br>Chevron Hwy 278<br>Dollar General Hwy 30<br>Little John\u2019s Hwy 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Businesses that were cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Way N. Lamar<br>Double Quick Jackson Ave.<br>Brittany Store Jackson Ave.<br>Murphy USA Jackson Ave.<br>West Oxford Chevron Jackson Ave.<br>Wards Chevron Old Taylor Road<br>The Store Hwy 30<br>Abbeville Quick Stop Hwy 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, the Oxford Police Department, Mississippi Attorney General\u2019s Office, Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":83958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[6527,15891,15889,2092,15892,15890,10374],"class_list":["post-83956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-lafayette-county-metro-narcotics","tag-minors","tag-mississippi-attorney-generals-office","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-selling-to-minors","tag-vape","tag-vaping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Vaping.jpg?fit=590%2C393&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}