Vermont Business Magazine Two tobacco dealers will pay Vermont a total of $69,000 for violating Vermont’s tobacco laws and Consumer Protection Act. In the spring of 2015, McIssac and Bairos New England Distribution, LLC of Avon, Massachusetts, a licensed wholesale dealer of tobacco products, sold 263 packs of Seneca cigarettes, a product that is illegal to sell in Vermont as it is not on Vermont’s tobacco directory, to Vermont retailers.
In order to resolve the violations of law alleged in the Attorney General’s Complaint, McIsaac and Bairos entered into a consent decree. The business has agreed to sell into Vermont only those cigarettes and roll-your-own (“RYO”) tobacco that are listed on Vermont’s tobacco directory and to confirm thirty days before sales of any new cigarette or RYO brands that they are in fact legal for sale here. The business is also paying $35,000 in costs and penalties to the State.
Another former licensed wholesale dealer of tobacco products, Zenvesco d/b/a EA Carey of North Canton, Ohio, has also entered into a settlement with the State. E.A. Carey, over the course of several years, shipped RYO tobacco ordered over the internet to individual consumers in Vermont, which violates Vermont’s delivery sales ban and Consumer Protection Act. It has agreed to cease all such behavior and to notify the Office of the Attorney General should it again obtain a wholesale dealers license. E.A.Carey will also pay the State a penalty of $34,000.
Vermont AG: July 26, 2016