Cashiers ring up customers at registers inside a Walmart location in Burbank, California.
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Walmart will increase the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21 starting July 1, the company said in a letter to the Food and Drug Administration.
Walmart said it is also in the process of discontinuing sales of fruit and dessert flavored e-cigarettes. The retailer outlined steps to prevent minors from buying tobacco products in a letter to the FDA.
The FDA in April threatened to fine Walmart, Kroger, Family Dollar and more than a half dozen convenience store chains for illegally selling tobacco products to minors.
Read Walmart's letter to the FDA:
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