Posted on 03/18/2014 5:49:02 PM PDT by massmike
A group of 28 state attorneys general are calling on Wal-Mart and other retailers to follow the lead of CVS Caremark and stop selling tobacco products in their stores with pharmacies — a move Massachusetts AG Martha Coakley backs but has not yet signed.
The group’s letters to Wal-Mart, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Kroger and Safeway said there is a “contradiction in having these dangerous and devastating tobacco products on the shelves of a retail chain that services health care needs.”
Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS said in February that it would stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its 7,600-plus stores by Oct. 1 — the first national drugstore chain to make the pledge.
Coakley didn’t join her New England counterparts in signing the letters because her office didn’t have the opportunity to fully review them before the deadline, said spokesman Christopher Loh, though he added, “We commended CVS Caremark for removing all tobacco products from its shelves, and we support this letter in urging these fellow retailers to voluntarily do the same.”
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All the things anyone really needs are provided to you in prison.
How can they allow them to sell alcohol, too?
F’n Nazis.
Dear God, no! I dread the thought of her stupidity contaminating the gene pool!
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