OXFORD, Ohio —Some among the under-21 crowd in Oxford don’t seem to mind the age change.

• In the next few weeks, you'll have to be 21 before you can buy cigarettes, vape pens, and tobacco products in Ohio
• Area college town convenience stores are getting ready for an influx of fake IDs 
• They say it’s going to take some extra training to spot them

“I think it’s a good way to prevent people from smoking at a young age,” said Melissa Murphy, 20.

In the next few weeks they won’t be old enough to buy cigarettes, vape pens and liquids or any kind of tobacco in Ohio.

“I’m not gonna smoke, whether I’m 18 or 21,” said Murphy.

But some say if they really wanted to, they could find a way to still get their hands on them.

“If you are around people and they are old enough, they’ll just give it to you, like it’s no big deal, they’ll like go get it for you,” said Ripley Crosley, 20.

Or they’ll make it for you.

“I feel like it is easy to do,” said Crosley.

It’s as easy as a quick Google search— dozens of websites selling fake IDs.

And teens are using them, or at least trying to. 

This stack of fake IDs bought online was confiscated at a convenience store after the age to buy cigarettes changed to 21 in Virginia. 

Here in Ohio, it’s still 18 to buy cigarettes, but college town convenience stores here are getting ready for an influx of fakes. 

“It’s gonna take some getting used to,” said Ryan Johnson, gas station cashier.

The age goes up to buy cigarettes later this month.

Ryan Johnson, a cashier at an Oxford gas station, says he already knows what to look for.

“There’s a hologram on the Ohio license for sure, and you can kinda hold it up to the light and there’s different little characteristics, you can tell whether it’s real or fake,” said Johnson.

But those fake IDs bought online are being advertised to pass a scan or light test. 

That amounts to more work for Kim Smith, the convenience store owner.

“We will have to start carding everyone we know to be 18 and are able to buy, because we’re not sure if they’re 19 or 20,” said Smith.

And more training for her workers on how to spot a fake when the age goes up to 21 to buy cigarettes.

“Slipping in a fake ID might be easy to do, since there’s been a change in the appearance anyway, so I definitely need to educate myself and my employees on that as well,” said Smith.