Peg Hart

[Peg Hart, manager, Smoker Friendly] We get caught in a sting, you're automatically fired.Or if you pass a sting, then I give you a hundred dollars cash right then as soon as the police say you passed the sting. The "sting" she's talking about is what the Nebraska State Patrol calls "compliance checks."

[Peg Hart, manager, Smoker Friendly] We get caught in a sting, you're automatically fired.Or if you pass a sting, then I give you a hundred dollars cash right then as soon as the police say you passed the sting. The "sting" she's talking about is what the Nebraska State Patrol calls "compliance checks."Working with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, investigators send underage volunteers into stores that sell tobacco. We followed along when they made the rounds late last summer in Dawson County.The fifteen-year-old goes in alone and at each store asks for the preferred brand of Nebraska teenagers: Marlboros in a hard pack. [Patrol Investigator] "She sold to him!She even said….Had to be born before 10-21-83.