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19 businesses are caught in cigarette probe 

Nineteen city businesses have been caught selling tobacco products to underage teenage buyers during a summer- long undercover sting operation by city health inspectors, the city announced yesterday.

So far, city prosecutors have taken 16 of the businesses to municipal court, where business owners have faced a minimum of $250 in fines.

In a statement, Mayor Douglas H. Palmer and Health and Human Services Director Carolyn Lewis- Spruill implored local shops to stop selling cigarettes and tobacco products to youths.

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