Five businesses in Bismarck sold tobacco products to teens when tested Monday.

A tobacco compliance check team, consisting of five teenagers, two Police Youth Bureau youth workers and three Bismarck police officers, visited 36 retail tobacco outlets on Monday evening. Bismarck has 40 businesses that sell tobacco, but the team was unable to attempt sales at four businesses, because the teens knew employees working at the stores.

Four of the five businesses that sold tobacco to the juveniles did so without checking identification. Employees at B&J Tesoro, 406 N. Sixth St.; Cenex, 2520 Centennial Road; Loaf-N-Jug, 2600 E. Rosser Ave.; and Cenex, 2006 E. Broadway Ave., sold to minors without checking IDs.

An employee at Northbrook Tesoro, 1905 N. Washington St., checked ID prior to selling a tobacco product to a teenager.

According to a release, adults were responsible for the sales at four businesses, and a juvenile was responsible at one.

Reports on the compliance checks will be sent to the city attorney.

Tobacco was not sold to minors at the following businesses:

- Best Stop

- Lander's Conoco

- Simonson's (Interstate Avenue)

- Kmart

- Expressway C-Store

- Central Market

- CVSPharmacy

- Red Carpet Carwash (North 11th Street)

- Dan's Supermarket South

- Southport C-Store

- Cash Wise

- Stamart (Oasis)

- Interstate Tesoro

- Unistop (North 19th Street)

- I-94 BP Super Express

- Arrowhead Tesoro

- Country West Conoco

- CVS Pharmacy (Kirkwood Mall)

- Wal-Mart North

- Expressway Amoco

- Holiday

- Stamart (State Street and Divide Avenue)

- Simonson's (Main Avenue)

- Unistop (Tacoma Avenue)

- Kum & Go

- Cenex (West Divide Avenue)

- Loaf-N-Jug (North Washington)

- Main Tesoro

- Tobacco Row

- Pony Express

- Little Dukes

(Reach reporter Jenny Michael at 250-8225 or jenny.michael@bismarcktribune.com.)