Too tolerant of teen smoking

It’s good that public and private groups in Kansas are stepping up efforts to keep kids from buying smokes with an “It’s Everybody’s Business” program. If 27 percent of the places in Kansas that sell cigarettes are selling them to minors, that’s a problem. But so is the federal government’s compliance target of 80 percent. True, kids can be enterprising when they want to smoke, but the goal ought to be keeping more than 80 percent of them from succeeding.
Posted by Rhonda Holman