We Card Awareness Month

Proclamation
By the Governor of Alabama

WHEREAS, Alabama law prohibits the sale of tobacco products to people under the age of 19; and

WHEREAS, We Card Awareness Month is a retail education and training effort to boost Alabama retailers’ awareness of and participation in responsible retailing efforts to comply with federal, state and local laws and identify, prevent and deny tobacco and other age-restricted product sales to minors; and

WHEREAS, the national non-profit organization We Card Program, Inc., is designed to provide training and education to the retail community to help retailers comply with age-restricted product laws and serve their communities as responsible retailers; and

WHEREAS, We Card in-store training and education materials, its online training program and its mystery shopping service “ID Check-Up” are available to all Alabama retailers through We Card’s website; and

WHEREAS, the state of Alabama benefits from a responsible retailing community that successfully prevents tobacco and other age-restricted product sales to minors:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama, do hereby proclaim September 2015 as

We Card Awareness Month

in the State of Alabama.

Given Under My Hand and the Great Seal of the Office of the Governor at the State Capitol in the City of Montgomery on the 21st day of August 2015.

Robert Bentley
Governor