I still find this hard to believe. I’m not a smoker, but there is a CVS near me and I often go there to get photos developed and pick up odd items. My impression is that about a third of the store’s customers show up to buy cigarettes, and often pick up a few additional items while they are there.
It’s being reported this morning that CVS is no longer carrying odd items.
Amazing, isn't it? Nobody goes into CVS just to buy cigarettes; now they'll go elsewhere for all of those other items. I would also argue this move by CVS is HARMFUL TO SMOKERS. It would've been far more helpful to keep selling tobacco products, but offer deep discounts on anti-smoking drugs and free stop smoking clinics to CVS card members who smoke. The approach of not selling cigarettes shows a complete lack of careful thought by them.
That being said, I can't imagine why smokers buy their cigarettes at their drug store, and probably use their courtesy discount card. It identifies them as smokers for the nanny state to rehabilitate. Better they buy their cigarettes cash, no courtesy card, at the local gas station. Unless they want Nanny raising their insurance costs and forcing them into rehab programs.
PS: I'm a former smoker; quit over ten years ago, after 40 years of smoking. People will quit when their ready, even if it's difficult. JMHO
they must be in the mix to sell legal weed....or maybe they’ll get an exemption from obamacare fiasco....