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Posted on 03/18/2014 8:00:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A group of 28 U.S. attorneys general is urging chief executive officers of five major retailers, including Walmart, to stop selling tobacco products, saying it is contradictory to carry such items in stores that also provide health care services.
The companies receiving a letter on Sunday from the group were Wal-Mart Stores Inc, supermarket operators Kroger Co, Safeway Inc, which operate pharmacies, and drugstore chains Walgreen Co and Rite Aid Corp. …
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Just wait til Hillary becomes the Mother-in-Law in Chief
Yes; I’ve got plenty in my family. My parents were able to stop by exercising willpower, I have to say, by contrast to my age-peers in my family.
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I heard the CO tax on pot is 25%
Indiana already gets about 20% of the price of cigs
I didn’t see a list of the states these AGs are in. All blue, I’d expect.
Boycott those states.
Go ahead, knuckle under to Big Government.
Next, they’ll tell you which foods you can sell, and demand you only stock sugar-free beverages and no salty snacks and tell you how and when, or not, to vend all your other products.
Mooshelle tried that with school lunches, and it didn’t go over very well.
We have an entire nation stuck on stupid, and the government is niggling over nicotine.
They’ll get my cigar when they pry it from my cold, nicotine stained fingers. :)
The commissariat needs serious wing clipping.
It’s reminding of “Cocteau’s World” in Demolition Man...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMI_26oljqs
Had Enough Yet ?
He's in on the action. Linky.
Just curious, but I wonder about the state these AG’s represent and how dependent they and their programs have become on tobacco product taxes and just how they expect to replace those funds?
The junk food and alcohol can stay, however.
I though that Guam flipped over a while back!?
Well for now anyway. Likely this is just the opening salvo.
“Minnesota has dramatically raised cigarette taxes to partially fund a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings”
What’s wrong with this statement?
Where to begin?
Near Danville,IL
AMEN!!! You can’t demand somebody stop selling something that’s legal. Stupidity reins supreme.
I suggest that 28 attorney’s general take a vacation and fly Air Malaysia.
Will cigarette smokers get a discount on Vikings season tickets?
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