I looked around the TRAC site for ATF a bit, (  http://trac.syr.edu/tracatf  

wondering if I could find out how much enforcement effort
goes to preventing the sale of alcohol and tobacco to children.
I haven't found that answer yet, unless it is "None".
My quick search raised the more basic question -- where are the
enforcement statistics for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms regarding alcohol and tobacco? Are there any?
Actually I bet the answer IS in this excellent and comprehensive
website somewhere, I just scanned a fraction of it. I did see the
broad summaries of areas of enforcement effort, and saw that "drug"
categories were in positions #2 and #3, after firearms. The next level
of detail showed at least half a dozen separate "drug" offense
categories. In these ATF tables, does the word "drug" refer to alcohol
and tobacco? No, I think it does not. Page after page I did a FIND for
"tobacco" or "alcohol", and they just aren't mentioned. The text of
the most frequently cited statute for each category is hyperlinked;
FIND's in some of those also made it plain that the "drug" categories
ATF is interested in are heroin, cocaine, LSD, marijuana, etc.
I did find a couple of references, deep in a long document. It
includes descriptions of all the categories, but I'll only show the
headings of most of them, and I'll include the descriptions for the
ONLY references I found to alcohol or tobacco. ATF's priorities are
clearly on OTHER drugs.
    Supplemental Data Dictionary For Criminal Referrals: Table Headings
    (in alphabetic order)
    ...
    ATTACHMENT: PROGRAM CATEGORY DETAILS
    Three-digit program category codes are used by U.S. attorney offices
    to classify each criminal referral. ( For the detailed list click
    here. ) For this ATF Web Site, program category codes most often
    involved in referrals received from the ATF have been highlighted,
    while other infrequently used codes have been combined into the
    broader groupings defined by the U.S. Justice Department. These
    resulting classes and the types of offenses covered in each are:
    Operation Triggerlock
    Operation Triggerlock-Drugs
    Armed Career Criminal Act
    Narcotics/Drugs
    Organized Crime
       Violations of statutes relating to gambling, extortion, alcoholic
       beverages, infiltration of legitimate business by organized criminal
       elements, and related offenses involving organized crime (may involve
       violations of 18 U.S.C. 371, 664, 1084, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1962
       and similar statutes).
    White Collar Crime/Fraud: Arson for Profit.
    White Collar Crime/Fraud: Other.
    Regulatory
        Government regulatory offenses: criminal violations of federal
        statutes and regulations providing for the regulation of private
        activity. Examples include: counterfeiting of U.S. currency or
        securities, customs violations involving duty or currency, money
        laundering/structuring, energy pricing and related fraud, health and
        safety violations of employees or the general public, illegal
        discharge of toxic, hazardous or carcinogenic waste, copyright
        violations. trafficking in contraband cigarettes, wildlife and marine
        resources protection, energy violations involving nuclear waste
        issues, and environmental crimes.
    Other
... When an eel bites your toes and it lights up your nose, that's a moray.
--- PPoint 2.00
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