[rktman]

Smoker alert. Not that I buy them there anyway. Will they soon be stocking mj in their place. After all it's only for medicinal purposes in most place. For now.

[TexasCajun]

I would venture to guess that the stock holders are not happy campers today!

[jsanders2001]

Yep. Stoners soon to be everywhere. More easy to steer and control if they are high all the time. Millions of experiences have proved it time and time again. I know some think it doesn’t affect their behavior, judgment, body, or their coordination but they are deluded. We all make excuses for our bad habits to justify them.

[chrisser]

When I was smoking, I found CVS seemed to keep their stocks fresh. Whether due to the volume of sales or better inventory management, I don’t know.

I’d gotten some awful tasting packs from random gas stations so I started using CVS. Didn’t hurt that they were right down the street either.

Wish one of the chains would jump on the e-cigs bandwagon with some force. I have to order the stuff online and it sucks running out if I’m not on top of it. If that industry would adopt some interchangeability standards, I think they’d take off. But that’s probably off topic.

[11th Commandment]

This really sucks! I for one enjoyed the convenience of buying my inhaler, filling my COPD script and purchasing my cigarettes all in one place.

[freebilly]

The convenience store across the street just got happy....

[greene66]

The old mom-and-pop pharmacies I used to frequent never did sell cigarettes to begin with. Thus, they were never something I would expect to see in a drug store to begin with.

[waterhill]

Dollar General sells smokes.

[Joe 6-pack]

But will they still stock the morning after pill for teens?

[nascarnation]

That’s kind of amazing, as I’m sure tobacco is a big profit item.

Imagine how big govt deficits would be without tobacco taxes and payments?

[napscoordinator]

Controversial? lol. You can’t make this crap up. That has literally made my day. We are so done as a country. It is over folks....pack up and leave. Last one out, shut the door and turn out the lights. We are officially done.

[GSWarrior]

Who smokes these days? I’d wager it is less than 10 percent of the populace. Mostly junior high students and elderly Chinese women.

[GeronL]

but birth control and abortion pills for kids are not controversial at all?

[Clay Moore]

When do they start addressing abuse of prescription narcotics?

[ilgipper]

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.

[Vigilanteman]

Way back when I worked in a chain drug store, we had a lot of customers who came in only for tobacco. I don't know about now, but in those days, the pharmacy was the most profitable part of the drug store.

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.

[Gay State Conservative]

Depending on their motive here I may or may not have a problem with this.If their motive is positive PR then OK,they experience the benefits,and drawbacks,on their profit and loss spreadsheets.If it's because their legal department advised it for some reason I see that as an indictment of our legal systems and juries.If it's a government mandate I say “**** you,Rat Party scum”.

[Parmy]

Just a side note: When Christine (the Idiot) was governor of WA, she increased the tobacco tax dramatically. What happened was that the stores lost sales. Here in Yakima the estimate that I heard was 10000 cartons a month.

Where did they go? To the Reservation.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Has SMOKE ever been considered a drug delivery method in modern medicine? In the past yes! But not today! I wonder what the effect of MJ smoke in the rectum would be?

[catnipman]

Not to worry. They can always make up for lost tobacco sales with marijuana sales.