Six cited for selling tobacco to underage persons in BHC

A check of 14 randomly selected businesses conducted in March found six employees of Big Horn County businesses in violation of a law that prohibits selling tobacco products to persons under the age of 21. According to Big Horn County Sheriff Ken Blackburn, this is an extremely high number, almost unheard of in previous checks.
The sheriff’s department does tobacco and alcohol checks twice a year.
It’s no secret that the sheriff’s department does these checks. They are conducted four times a year, twice for tobacco and twice for alcohol. According to Blackburn, businesses understand the checks will be done during the year; they just don’t know the exact dates they will be done.
“We can guarantee, like death and taxes, that we will be stopping by businesses that sell these products twice a year to do these checks,” said Blackburn. “The only thing they don’t know is the exact date it will happen.”