Posted on 02/05/2014 7:10:38 AM PST by rktman
When customers step up to make a purchase at a CVS store next fall, they won’t see rows of cigarette boxes and other tobacco products behind the counter. CVS Caremark announced Wednesday its decision to stop selling tobacco products by October 2014 in its more than 7,600 stores, making it the first large drugstore chain in the country to do so.
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No more smokes but in my area they devote an entire section for top shelf booze, beer, wine and cheap rotgut whiskey.
CVS....what a bunch of hypocrites!!!
I find it interesting that all the same people celebrating this move by CVS are the same that are all in for weed. Why is a cigerette evil and pot something we need to advance? Seems a little inconsistent.
You make a valid point, also they sell all kinds of snacks and soft drinks as well.
I’m wondering if the pharmaceutical industry is behind this in some way - such as $$$ for ditching the smokes and using that space for “nicotine replacement therapy.”
The reasoning behind selling cheap smokes was that we were developing future customers for the pharmacy. I know it sounds cruel, but it was sound business. If people bought their smokes at your drug store, chances were pretty good that they would also eventually buy their respiratory medicine (if they kept up the habit) or smoking cessation aids (if they didn't).
You aren't going to get people to quit smoking because you stop selling tobacco products at your store. You will, however, probably get them to take their tobacco and other business elsewhere. I guess that's a good move if you have so many customers you can afford to lose 25% of them.
Where did they go? To the Reservation.
John Boehner smokes.
This isn’t the point. The first thing I thought of was that the sanctimonious Obama, who has probably been fibbing about his own cigarette quitting journey, is attempting to take away the little pleasures that make this wretched time in our country’s history more bearable. Watch for Rite-Aid, Walgreens, Bartells and others to be pressured to follow suit.
And if you people think that anti smoking fascists have a much more charitable attitude about pipes, cigars or e-cigs, don’t be so sure.
Of course the reservation. One of the first things I thought of.
The King Co. ban-smoking-in-parks movement still irks me.
Yes, I miss the old drug stores with the lunch counter, flavored Cokes, pharmacist in an elevated room and special section of livestock medicine, and it maybe doubled as bus station too. Wish we had one in downtown Everett, as I’m sure there once was, but those days are gone.
***Where did they go? To the Reservation. ***
I wonder if reservations could sell guns and large magazines, illegal in the state surrounding the rez to the public? It would sure knock Cali and Colo’s anti magazine laws in the head!
Hey that is how the Rez got around state anti-gambling laws!
Anderson cooper may know. Of course we’ve been having sunshine pumped up there for a while now.
Yes
For anyone’s information. A certain Indian on the Yakima reservation is growing a lot of tobacco. He was having to send it East to get it processed. I understand that he now has the capability of drying it here. He also manufactures his own cigs. In fact, he won a law-suit against him in NY, I believe, because NY was trying to tax his cigs going to reservations. I think I am mostly correct in this.
Not to worry. They can always make up for lost tobacco sales with marijuana sales.
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