Currently, some stores and pharmacies, including Wal-Mart, CVS/pharmacy, and Walgreens, limit the quantities of over-the-counter medicines containing pseudoephedrine, which is used to make meth. But McMaster wants stores throughout South Carolina to display "Meth Watch" warning labels to alert customers that only a limited amount of certain products used to make meth, such as rock salt and lithium batteries, can be purchased at one time. The campaign also includes brochures and fact sheets with additional information.

"It would all be voluntary, but the stickers would be a reminder, a deterrent that plays off the paranoia the drug feeds," McMaster said.

Jim Hatchell, president of the South Carolina Merchants Association, said retailers would support the initiative as long as there is uniformity throughout the state and legitimate customers are not greatly inconvenienced.

"We do a pretty good job self-policing, but something statewide with teeth would be even better," said Hatchell.

McMaster said the ease in obtaining the household ingredients used in making the drug contributes to the growing meth problem in the state.

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