CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — Channel 2 Action News has learned teens as young as 14 were able to buy vaping products from stores in Cherokee County -- and they weren't asked to show any identification.
With vaping now labeled an epidemic with teens, the Cherokee County marshal and local law enforcement set up an undercover sting.
They sent student volunteers into 87 stores to see if they could buy vaping products.
Officials said out of the 87 stores, 16 of them sold to children, which is about an 18% rate.
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Channel 2's Tom Regan visited several stores accused of selling vaping products to minors. One clerk told him her co-worker was told to turn himself in for selling a Juul product to an underage customer.
Like many other metro school systems, Cherokee has seen students collapse and in need of emergency medical care after vaping.
Cherokee County Schools now has one of the strictest anti-vaping policies in place for the new school year.
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