In my state, teenagers can get them for free from the health department.

and can teenagers get to the health department for free? :-/

you're coming dangerously close to quoting the vogon from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy:

> There’s no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaints and its far too late to start making a fuss about it now.

> What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh for heaven sake mankind it’s only four light years away you know! I’m sorry but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that’s your own regard. Energise the demolition beams! God I don’t know…apathetic bloody planet, I’ve no sympathy at all…

Well my mom works for the health department and she passes them out all the time. So I'd say transportation is not an issue for some of them.

Where and why does she do that?

Competing anecdote: when I was a teen, I had no idea what the health department was, or what it did, and I never met an employee of the health department.

If you look at my github profile, you'll see that I'm in Oklahoma and because it's her job.

I'm sorry you didn't have access to taxpayer funded condoms when you were a teenager. Why so much criticism? Do you feel somehow that you were treated unfairly? If so, by whom?

Chill out, man. I'm not criticizing anybody. Just showing some incredulity.

When I said where and why, I meant in what context does a health department employee hand out condoms?

Like, does she wander around the area shopping malls with overflowing pockets, handing them out to anyone who looks like a teenager? I'm just trying to figure out how what you described works.