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CVS To Stop Selling Tobacco Products At Its 7600 Stores
Because Americans obviously can not be trusted with making the right, or any, decisions, without parental supervision, the CVS Caremark pharmacy chain has decided to do it for them. "CVS Caremark announced today that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores across the U.S. by October 1, 2014, making CVS/pharmacy the first national pharmacy chain to take this step in support of the health and well-being of its patients and customers. "Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health," said Larry J. Merlo, President and CEO, CVS Caremark. "Put simply, the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose."
Well, unless all other major retail chains decide to pull the Bloomberg stunt and follow suit, that only means more money for CVS' competitors. And now we begin the countdown of how long before CVS also pulls all the other "evil", cheap high-calorie, zero nutrient junk foods that dominate its shelves and whose consumption is responsible for the bulk of cardiovascular diseases and premature deaths in the US.
From the press release:
CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) announced today that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores across the U.S. by October 1, 2014, making CVS/pharmacy the first national pharmacy chain to take this step in support of the health and well-being of its patients and customers.
"Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health," said Larry J. Merlo, President and CEO, CVS Caremark. "Put simply, the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose."
Merlo continued, "As the delivery of health care evolves with an emphasis on better health outcomes, reducing chronic disease and controlling costs, CVS Caremark is playing an expanded role in providing care through our pharmacists and nurse practitioners. The significant action we're taking today by removing tobacco products from our retail shelves further distinguishes us in how we are serving our patients, clients and health care providers and better positions us for continued growth in the evolving health care marketplace."
Smoking is the leading cause of premature disease and death in the United States with more than 480,000 deaths annually. While the prevalence of cigarette smoking has decreased from approximately 42 percent of adults in 1965 to 18 percent today, the rate of reduction in smoking prevalence has stalled in the past decade. More interventions, such as reducing the availability of cigarettes, are needed.
"CVS Caremark is continually looking for ways to promote health and reduce the burden of disease," said CVS Caremark Chief Medical Officer Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., M.P.H. "Stopping the sale of cigarettes and tobacco will make a significant difference in reducing the chronic illnesses associated with tobacco use."
In a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Viewpoint published online this morning, Brennan and co-author Steven A. Schroeder, Director, Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, University of California, San Francisco, wrote, "The paradox of cigarette sales in pharmacies has become even more relevant recently, in large part because of changes in the pharmacy industryMost pharmacy chains are retooling themselves as an integral part of the health care system. They are offering more counseling by pharmacists, an array of wellness products and outreach to clinicians and health care centers.Perhaps more important, pharmacies are moving into the treatment arena, with the advent of retail health clinics. These retail clinics, originally designed to address common acute infections, are gearing up to work with primary care clinicians to assist in treating hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes all conditions exacerbated by smoking."
CVS Caremark's decision to stop selling tobacco products is consistent with the positions taken by the American Medical Association, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and American Pharmacists Association that have all publicly opposed tobacco sales in retail outlets with pharmacies.
"As a leader of the health care community focused on improving health outcomes, we are pledging to help millions of Americans quit smoking," said Merlo. "In addition to removing cigarettes and tobacco products for sale, we will undertake a robust national smoking cessation program."
The program, to be launched this Spring, is expected to include information and treatment on smoking cessation at CVS/pharmacy and MinuteClinic along with online resources. The program will be available broadly across all CVS/pharmacy and MinuteClinic locations and will offer additional comprehensive programs for CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management plan members to help them to quit smoking. Approximately seven in ten smokers say they want to quit and about half attempt to quit each year.
"Every day, all across the country, customers and patients place their trust in our 26,000 pharmacists and nurse practitioners to serve their health care needs," commented Helena B. Foulkes, President, CVS/pharmacy. "Removing tobacco products from our stores is an important step in helping Americans to quit smoking and get healthy."
The decision to exit the tobacco category does not affect the company's 2014 segment operating profit guidance, 2014 EPS guidance, or the company's five-year financial projections provided at its December 18th Analyst Day.The company estimates that it will lose approximately $2 billion in revenues on an annual basis from the tobacco shopper, equating to approximately 17 cents per share. Given the anticipated timing for implementation of this change, the impact to 2014 earnings per share is expected to be in the range of 6 to 9 cents per share. The company has identified incremental opportunities that are expected to offset the profitability impact. This decision more closely aligns the company with its patients, clients and health care providers to improve health outcomes while controlling costs and positions the company for continued growth.
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and gas stations around the country will now stop selling lottery tickets
Once that new health care legislation paid the bills, we don't need no stinkin cig hypocrisy here. But they could'nt hit the sweet home run and ban the candy. We call this selective legislative insanity.
Sorry folks, but I see no problem with a retailer deciding they don't want to carry a given product. The government is NOT forcing CVS to stop selling cigarettes. They are making a business decision. So be it.
If you don't like the decision, YOU can go to a different store.
If we want government out of our business, then we need to accept basic decisions made by businesses.
Sheeit Jules. I say it another way and I get shit on.
I think the irony button is broken on my keyboard.
You know what they say. Its all in the delivery.
You think the government is not forcing their hand?? c'mon. one of their most profitable products? where is the pressure coming from, do you suppose, if not from federal officials (and their pals at the IRS)
what will become of the gene pool?
cigarettes are a low margin product for most retailers.
If they really gave a damn about their customer's health they'd stop selling soda's, junk food, energy drinks, and alcoholic beverages. Anyway, they're probably just going to start selling the shit out of electronic cigarettes.
but cigarettes require little shelf space/$, little manpower for merchandising and GET PEOPLE IN THE DOOR where they buy other products.
you dont think the govt was behind the ban on soda in NYC? you think retailers - out of the goodness of their hearts - banned 16 oz soda? (im no fan of either product, btw, but this is not a free market decision)
In other news, unless CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) JUST DISCOVERED THAT SMOKING CAUSES SERIOUS DISEASE, they have just officially admitted that they have been actively killing their customers for profit by selling them tobacco products for the last 20some years.
p.s. - When will CVS Pharmacy quit selling products containing sugar, transfats, nitrates, salt, artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, alcohol, the 90%+ of prescription medications that are far more harmful then helpful (if they have any beneficial, actual effect in the 1st place), GMO containing products, caffeine containing products, any products containing any chemicals or substances that are known or suspected carcinogens, etc?
When do they quit selling the drugs that all of the mass killers are on?
Say What Again - Yes, cigarrettes may be a low margin product.
I bet that the Nicorrette Gum, Patches and Lozenges CVS sells and will continue to sell are a very High Margin product. Funny thing is that these Pharmaceutical Company products are just as addictive. Plus,
Pharmaceuritcal companies selling and profiting from their "medicines" is good, while tobacco companies selling an alternative delivery method for the nictonine is bad.
Their response to this type of comment, I forgot where I saw it was "In moderation, those products are not harmful. No amount of tobacco products are healthy."
Just reporting.
Well there is least one voice of sanity here...
They're only making room for those "left hand" cigarettes. Medical MaryJane, Baby!
And now you are getting warmer.....
Cigarettes are an extremely low margin product sold at the front of the store. Cigarettes do not create "Store" traffic, they create lines at the front of the store, only. One of the biggest complaints that CVS has is their long lines at the cash register. Much of the long lines are caused by cigarette purchasers. This is strictly an economic decision by CVS.
$2 billion a year or 17 cents a share is an economic decision. To lose money.
What is the profit on a pack of cigatettes?
What percentage of the price is tax?
I think your pussy-whine-suppressor needs repair.
Agree with SWA 100%. That's what a free market is supposed to look like.
OTOH, why do I have a sneaking suspicion there is more to this story that we haven't heard yet? I mean, come on let's not fool ourselves, this is NOT an act of conscience on the part of CVS, this is a business decision presumably calculated based on greed or fear.
1. Greed: they make more on e-cigs and nic gum. They have data that shows these customers are not profitable, etc, etc
2. Fear: a little .gov birdie told them not to or else. They have some info about some legislation coming down the pike. Back room deal. etc
Takes your picks, I guess I just cynical that way.
@MNC
There is a third option that you may have overlooked;
IMAGE
Every company that SELLs you something has a corporate image that they try maintain. From American Express, to Citibank, Disney, Ford, to Wal*Mart, they all have an image, which is reflected in the advertising. If a business feels a certain image will drive revenue and margins, then they will typically try to align themselves with that image.
Damn shame the iconic Marboro Man just died from lung cancer.
But he died 'tough' doing what he wanted to do, like a real frontier-conquering American heee-ro. Lulz.
And how old was he???
14
Shhhhh. That doesn't fit the narrative.
BTW, he was 72 and died of COPD.
Better to die young living large and enjoying life than linger on in the pits of some nursing home all doped up on drugs and having some perv changing your diaper once a day.
The image thing works for me. CVS is one of the stores I do go into on occasion. I've always felt they should not be selling cigarettes. But then again, I don't see much difference in them selling candy and potato chips. Yet the cigarette thing irks me more. And I'm not particularly anti smoker. Although I'm no fan of smoking in enclosed rooms, smoking is ok with me. I used to smoke. Never an easy answer.
How about the selling of pharmas that kill tens of thousands every fucking year. Any thoughts on that?
Yes, billions are still saved. Chemicals affect different people differently, and some substances cause harm to some people, but the medicines generally improve quality of life for most people. There are exceptions, and I'm not talking about the intentional poisons that are deployed on people, but generally, many different drugs exist in order to extend life. And they have, you're still here.
I see what you are saying. Ever go into a CVS? Like most retail, especially drug stores and grocery stores, they pretty much reflect the lifestyles and tastes of their constituent neighborhoods. Not sure it's a strong a brand image play since it seems more about convenience and price in their sector, but I'm not a marketer ;-)
CVS, Walgreens, and RiteAid are just high priced 7-11's with a legal dope dealer hiding in the back.
How's that "image" thing working out for JCP?
I see no problem with a retail store doing this either. They have every right to sell the products that fit their "moral code".
Likewise, I have every right to provide my dollars to stores that match my "moral code", which includes only those business that do not fall prey to the "you are not responsible citizens" mantra.
This includes.....
You might as well include all major corporate chain stores because they all went to the same brainwashing schools and they're all controlled by the same subsector of elites that control the major media outlets.
"• No longer watching the major networks (Leftist Cheerleaders)"
An image of Ed Schultz in a cheerleader outfit just hit my brain like a wagonload of bricks.
say what again is a fagot
Ever heard of Steve Rattner?
I see opportunity for other people.
Easy.... boykott CVS
+ 1000
Did so, and FUCK AETNA! While were at it.
Fukken-A, Bubba! Another outfit that can FOAD!
Boycott CVS?? I'm not sure it most people will see it that way. I also like the 'hypocrite' comment from above.
My father owned several pharmacies and my grandfather died from emphysema. For that reason, my father would not sell cigarettes in the stores. Most customers appreciated that my father wanted them to get healthy and not sell things contradictory to the purpose of the business just to make a buck. I would argue this will help the brand with non-smoking customers... which are now much greater than the smoking population. Plus, how much money is there in cigarettes?? It seems most of the money goes to taxes.
In a real crisis, cigarettes are money. I suspect this is really all just a plan to strengthen the dollar. heh
It's about choice or the increasing lack thereof. Anytime that choice is taken away from us there should be concern. Fine, CVS chooses not to sell Tabacco, some will then choose not to shop there. Sorry about your Grandfather.
Wouldn't you need to have been a customer of CVS to boycott them, Skippy?
Sure. Refuse to buy cigarettes from them.
I used to smoke cigs. I miss them every day. My brand was Marlboro. I haven't had a cig in over two years. Word to your mother.
in other news CVS' chairman announced that they will continue to sell the smoking cessation pharmaceutical that can give you cancer and make your ass bleed...
The amount of tax as a percentage of price of a pack of cigarettes could have something to do with it:
from Wiki:
New York City has a citywide tax of $1.50, making the combined state and local rate $5.85, the highest in the nation.
Which every seller charges, except indian reservations. How is that an influence?
Perhaps those commies should be forced to damn well sell things.
How much is this going to cost me again?
A dollar two eighty should cover it.
"About tree fiddy."
There is another motive for this move..........
I have no idea what it is.............but there is one.
Many shops sell it as it is a FOOTFALL producer.....same as booze
If Big commerce was to become ethical.........then we are trully fucked.
Not that I would not want all commerce to be ethical........but it ain't ever going to happen
an excuse to layoff few minimum wage.
People who would have otherwise shuffled off their mortal coils in due time will now stick around long enough to incur real cost to Obamacare.
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people, namely the American Taxpayer for electing the schumk in the first place while giving the House and Senate to the Democrats in order to pass it so that we can then find out what's in it.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ThLpRDKoU6Y/UEXimmngbvI/AAAAAAAAAVk/00vZlxzRTI...
http://www.cigarettestime.com/gallery/default/original/20405/marlboro_pr...
I thought those where vintage... guess not...
Which twinkle toes communist cocksucker just signed his own death warrant by junking me?
You still smokum peace pipe? If no i'll junk ya, and raise your warrent.
"Is that you John Wayne, Is this me?"
- Gunn sgt. Hartman
LOL. Thank fuck someone around here has a sense of humor and is cultured.
Best Kubrick movie next to The shining
Shaddup until you get to a year, bitchlet.
What was that comment about a pussy ass whine suppressor needing fixing?
Priceless.
Off to Walgreens.
cigarettes in a pharmacy store?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Americans can be so hypocrit sometimes :)
That's like selling drugs in a police station :)
Drugs at the police station is free.....if you know the right people.
Or fondle the right pecker at your local correctional facility.
TMI
A dealer ,I knew years ago, in London had his supply
come in Met Police evidence bags.
I thought the same... then I realized it makes perfect sense : most of the stuffs they sell make you even sicker, so why not tobacco. The pharma business knows better than anybody how to squeeze every $ from existing customers lol.
They don't want low margin tobacco taking away from prescriptions!
Probably making room for the automated medical marijuana dispensory in the back. Got to have priorities.
Selling condoms in a convent
actually... that would be a good idea...
But will they quit selling big gulps and Cheesy poofs too? Noooo!
WOW. If I was dumb enough to own any shares in this dog, I would sure as hell be selling them now.Talk about cutting your own throat to save yourself. Is this some kind of liberal, socialist mental defect?
In the foto, it looks like O'Bongo will be selling 'Choom' instead [Menthol Choom ~ it has electrolytes!]
I think that's a good thing. As a company, they have the right to choose which products they sell. Cigarettes are a contradiction to their business model. I used to work in pharmacy management and we talked about how this didn't make sense 15 years ago.
Then why sell beer, wine, candy, chips and soda?
I guess the diabetics, alcoholics, obese and high blood pressure crowd can still get their fix at the Pharamcy.
The ones in my state don't sell alcohol. Alcohol used to be medicine. In moderation may actually be good for you. The other stuff is food although not all of it healthy, in moderation it's okay. Where do you draw the line? Canned vegetables may not be healthy either. Most of our food is full of chemicals, pesticides, artificial flavors, etc. They drew the line at cigarettes for now.
More likely a desperate attempt to foster goodwill among their remaining customers. How many people were really picking up cancer sticks at a CVS anyway?
"Yeah, and I'll take some of those patches and gum too while you're at it."
selling the masses on pharmaceuticals that will “cure” their ailments with “a few” side effects is somehow not the same?
Yeah, because 'the masses' (pun intended) would really start exercising and eating more fiber if it wasn't for that durned CVS? C'mon...Americans don't need to be 'sold' on lazy solutions, they live for them (for now).
The next step should be to stop selling contraceptives.
pharmacy stores were selling cigarettes ?
WTF
Solid business model... Sell the product that will drive customers to your pharmacy.
don't worry though, they'll fill the empty shelves with doritos and cheetos because they're good for you.
I get my liquor at Walgreens. It's medicinal liquor, though, helps with my mental health.
Why stop selling them?
Just split the company down sector lines; medical drugs and recreational drugs. Create a new brand for the recreational side.
I think I'll celebrate by walking down to Walgreens for a pack of Swisher Sweets.
Good Move! Smart move. Sellings cancer causing products never made sense
The moron who trash the move need to get a life.
@billwilson
So the USA is going to give up it's NUKES then???
well in our world of pollution and radiation, GMO's to high heaven, does your (bill w) statement not cover just about everything on the shelves? i think it's great they should care about peoples health, but this is not caring, it's dictating and loosing revenue i might add in the process.
careful when you hear of the same industry that rapes us over health care, suddenly caring about our health.
@10pastMidnight..+1000
...unless you sell the drugs that fight the cancer. If they are going for health then they had better clear the isles of candy, sugar drinks and cholesterol laden snacks. Number of obese people far exceed number of smokers.
Obama Ban's Masturbation
Taxes for those found in the act
The freedom to loves ones own meat, where is ZH on this issue? No where to be found
*
There are like 1,000 good story's on the 'news' on the random ZH post-bot chooses this story, pray tell how does this fit into Bangalore-Zionist thinking?
They should pull prescription drugs from the shelves too.
This site has definitely been hijacked by jerk offs. The company was not forced to stop, they chose to stop selling a horrible horrible fucking sinister product. Good for them. Maybe corporate America has a soul after all. J
Lets hope that all those with pensions............
Have checked that all the investments are in ethical firms??
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA.
Sorry, that was a joke right?
They gladly participate in keeping people addicted to sugar and getting diabetes, or keeping kids medicated for life so they and the pharmas can bleed them dry, or gaming .gov via EBT and medicaid/medicare, and selling your medical data, etc
But why yes darn it, Kid, this proves they have a soul after all!!! Just ask the unicorn.
they chose to stop selling
I think it has something to do with people don't like to get preached too or told what to do on a daily basis.
Would it be OK with you if I controlled every aspect of your life?
Yet most conservatives are religious. Go figure.
No law against it.........yet.
"... people don't like to get preached too or told what to do on a daily basis."
The quality of the news here is also going downhill like, constantly posting war-mongering articles from Diplomat, I mean WTF??
so I guess you're right ZH has turned retard like Alex Jones Channel, I'll just go read MarketWatch from now on....
Well ABC-MEDIA promised to deliver th 15-45 year old male market, of little boys who never left home.
Nobody said asked you did they?
Ante the nickels folks and become advertisers, otherwise enjoy pre-puberty deja-vu.
I'm really enjoying the concerted efforts of all the new posters (most less than a month) to discredit this site. You go girl!
Dont let the door hit you in the ass, mate.
You had me until you said corporate America has a soul.
Next, McDonalds to stop selling toxic food at all their 33,000 restaurants worldwide:
14-Year-Old McDonald's Burger Looks the Same As On the Day It Was Madehttp://gawker.com/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-looks-the-same-as-on-the-...
Cigarettes bad... alcohol good. CVS, like all corporations has neither a conscience or moral backbone. This is pure corporate shinola. CVS sells Statin drugs does it not? Wonder if they will be first on the bandwagon of corporate marijuana sellers?
By the way Rite Aid has liquor stores too.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2013/nov/09/stringers-alcohol-sales-o...
http://www.moneysavingmadness.com/2011/06/cvs-liquor-clearance-select-st...
Rite Aid CEO should send flowers or a gift basket to CVS management. They just gave RAD a lifeline.
I bet the CEO of CVS gets canned within 18 months.
Making shelf space to sell legalized pot.
It's a corp - they exist to make a profit.
Nicotine patches and gum are a lot more profitable than the smokes. They'll just put those in the space they used to hold the smokes. Does that mean they ban E-cigs? Maybe CVS is now the E-cig headquarters?
This is a lie. CVS is 6 billion in the red and can't pay for the product anymore. This is similar to when you go into a C-store and they don't have beer or soda on the shelves. So to cover there asses they come up with a bullshit story that its not healthy.
//A relative of mine never smoked tobacco. Died of lung cancer.
Tobacco is the most addictive substance known to man and the numbers are all the proof you need.
Perhaps the lung cancer was an environmental exposure. Ever hear of asbestos? Did the coroner prove the lung cancer was from second hand smoke?
Way to ASSume, Copernicus.
SMOKING ANYTHING IS THE STUPIDEST THING ANY HUMAN CAN DO.
SHOW ME ONE OTHER ANIMAL THAT SMOKES. (MONKEYS HAVE BEEN TAUGHT. THEY NEVER WOULD DO THAT INTENTIONALLY)
WANT POT??? EAT IT.
AND THAT IS STUPID TOO.
I AM AN EX-SMOKER. TIMES THREE.....
IT IS JUST SO ABSOLUTELY STUPID.
HOW TO QUIT?
SMOKING IS CONSTANTLY SPIKING BLOOD SUGAR...THE BIGGEST PART OF ELIMINATING THE ADDICTION IS CONTROLLING BLOOD SUGAR.
1..USE A WATER BOTTLE WITH A PULL TOP TO REPLACE THE CIGARETTE.....SAVES THE TEETH, HYDRATES THE BRAIN AND BODY AND FIXES THE HAND MOUTH URGE.
2. WHEN YOUR BLOOD SUGAR GOES DOWN, YOU GET SURLY........USE PROTEIN NOT CARBS IN SMALL PORTIONS....SIX TIMES A DAY....
JERKY MADE FROM ROUND STEAK IS EASY TO CHEW AND REALLY TASTY. USE THAT....NOT GUM (WHICH IS STUPID TOO) OR CANDY.
ATKINS TYPE DIET.....NO BREAD....SO YOU ARE NOT TRIGGERING INSULIN AND DROPPING YOUR BLOOD SUGAR AND FEELING LIKE TOTAL CRAP.
3. GET A WALK AM AND PM OUTSIDE AWAY FROM TRAFFIC...FOR 10-15 MINUTES. AT LEAST ONE WALK IN DAYLIGHT. HARD TO DO IN ALASKA RIGHT NOW.
DON'T USE CHANTRIX OR STUPID VAPORWARE....YOU'VE QUIT. YOUR DONE.
4. NEVER QUIT SPENDING THE MONEY YOU SPENT FOR YOUR CIGARETTTES ON YOURSELF. EVERY DAY, PUT THE MONEY IN A BOX.
AFTER SIX WEEKS, CALL AND SET UP YOUR ONE TO TWO WEEK ALL INCLUSIVE VACATION IN CANCUN, ETC, IT IS PAID FOR IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS.
AND BEFORE YOU HAVE THE SMOKE AT A BAR AGAIN.........EXCUSE YOURSELF....GO HOME....GRAB THE BOX FULL OF MONEY....OPEN THE GRILL....
AND BURN IT. THEN GO HAVE YOUR SMOKE.....JUST MIGHT STOP YOU FROM BEING REALLLLLLLLLY STUPID !!!!!
Anything else?
You are a knuckle head, the right weed has an oil in it that is extremely benifical to the human body in so many ways. Now if it freaks out your mind and you can't handle it, don't blame the weed, blame your weak mind.
So are you claiming that smoking is actually good for you?
Hemp oils don't do much for you once you've set them on fire.
Calm down.
If anyone needs a cig or bong rip it's you buddy. Take one before you get a stroke.
How to quit: don't light the cigarette. Done.
Didn't CVS make some crazy move a year ago over something and then have to backpedal? can't remember what it was but here's a good example backpedaling: small rural county in North Georgia mountain resort area decides to let WalMart in. Supposedly(?) conditional on their not selling tobacco products or alcohol. A year or so later I happened up there and lo and behold the entire store had been arranged to accomodate alcohol, Not so sure about tobacco as it doesn't pertain to me. Like some of the other posters said if they are going to ban tobacco their next stop should be chips, candy and soda - all those things that make life bearable for the sheeple.
Me thinks this has to have something to do with the ACA. But come on, it took them this long to realize cigarettes in a pharmacy dont' make sense?
Drugs in a drug store?
Crazy.
When has "the right thing to do" ever entered into a boardroom decision-making process?
It hasn't, but they first blamed the unions so it was game on right after that.
When the lawyers point out the alternative.
everyone is vaping now, ego-t with my x-jet atomizer and 24mg of water nicotine, booooyaaaa
ha ha ha...check out squawk box..they have an air head cheerleader on instead of mrs quick...she has two jim o'sullivans (PGI and HFE) and she distinguishes them by calling one Jim O'Sullivan!!!!!! hahahahaha...on topic, she doesnt even know that CVS sells booze and is struggling with the concept of replacing cigarettes with e-ones (and marijhuana) heh..thought i would share..whata ditz!
health shop...cigarettes...why on earth are they still selling them there? d'uh...wal-green next...then where do you go to buy cigarettes? oh i know ..a cigarette shop aka tobacconist...people really should get over themselves...or get a dog
while I smoke, have to agree is pretty weird to see cigarettes sold in pharmacies.
I mean, I'd never think of buyin' smokes right from the pharmacy over here...
Two words: repeat business.
CVS will chew the candy it sells that makes us obese and spit it back into our mouths like a mother bird does for it's babies.
What do you mean 'us', motherfucker? Show some self-control.
Target already does this.
The plan is to upscale their image and the customers. by sstop selling tobacco, they will get rid of a lot of trash that goes into the stores and make them seem more like target compareed to walmart.
Pharmacy shops selling cigarettes.. wtf?
Stop selling sugar and products containing sugar too, then: http://drsircus.com/medicine/cancer/cancer-and-sugar
My guess would be with all the taxes and surcharges added to the cigarettes by the State Mafia, it wasn't a profitable line of business for them any more. So restricting their sales to the un-taxed but extremely profitable vapes and nicorette products ought to help boost their bottom line, yes?
it never made sense for pharmacies to sell cigarettes ...
Yea, but when is CVS going to start selling choom?
Well, it is a pharmacy. Why should they sell stuff to make you feel better right next to something obviously poisonous? There are enough places to buy tobacco if you can't live without your drug.
I hope this will not affect tobacco flavored Vagisil.
All pharmacies here in Canada stopped carrying tobacco ages ago, a logical move from a health perspective. There's a special kind of hypocrisy in going to the counter with yer cancer medication and grabbing a pack of smokes. Now we just get them at another tax-gouging business: the gas station.