The county and Adagio Health are teaming up to conduct a federally funded program aimed at making sure stores that sell tobacco products don’t sell them to underage youth.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration provides funding to the Pennsylvania Department of Health to conduct the FDA’s Tobacco Compliance Check Inspections to see if retailers are selling tobacco products to youth under 21 years old.

The health department then contracts with organizations like Adagio Health to conduct the inspections. Using FDA funding, 10,000 inspections are performed each year in the state.

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 was amended in 2019 to raise the minimum age for buying tobacco from 18 to 21 nationwide.

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