46% of vendors, shops sell cigarettes to minors under 18: survey

Nearly 46 percent of retailers and small vendors in Taiwan do not comply with the ban on selling cigarettes to minors, with betel nut vendors the biggest violators, according to the results of a survey released by the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) on Tuesday.

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