Posted on 09/04/2014 5:12:36 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
CVS, the leading US drug chain by sales, announced Wednesday, September 3, that it had stopped selling tobacco products....
CVS was cheered by the White House as "setting a powerful example that we hope others in the industry will follow."
First Lady Michelle Obama tweeted: "Congratulations and thank you, CVS Health. Creating a healthier future for our next generation is one good reason to live tobacco-free."
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When do they begin selling marijuana?
Hypocrisy is becoming almost universal.
The quality of tobacco products drug stores sell is not of interest to me, so I won’t miss it, but what’s next? candy?
Isnt Obama a Secret Smoker?
Anyways, They can do what they want. I don’t think Cigarettes made a lot of money for them anyways.
I guess Zero gets his smokes someplace else.
Liberals... Don't you just love'um....
While I am not a smoker I support other people’s right to smoke. I also support the rights of a business to sell or not sell products they choose. BUT I wonder what CVS will do about all the meds they sell that have bad side effects?
Govt now influencing what a business does .
So if this is about health then when shall they get rid of Soda, candy, other drugs they have?
Or maybe this is about trying to put tobacco companies out of business due to them giving to the GOP.
Hope their sales suffer due to this now.
This will only hurt CVS sales. Smokers will simply go somewhere else to purchase their cigarettes (like the gas station). No big deal. You notice the stinking democrats don’t want to outright ban tobacco. They know that the sales tax funds a lot of their liberal agenda.
Greater health hazard - pack of smokes or the morning after pill? Hmmmm.
“BUT I wonder what CVS will do about all the meds they sell that have bad side effects?”
Pharmaceuticals kill more people than cigarettes. But there’s more money there.
Our local CVS has a very nice wine section. Several years ago it became MANDITORY to hand your drivers license to the cashier - who swiped it through a reader - to complete the sale. No DL, no sale.
I no longer buy anything from CVS.
I expect all pharmacies to stop selling tobacco within the next year or two.
Under Obamacare the regime controls their access to insurance payments for meds. Thus they can be “nudged” into the regime’s preferred patterns of behavior.
I gave up smoking 15 years ago. I’ll never shop at CVS again. It’s about freedom of choice.
Besides, they need all those tobacco plants to make Ebola drugs...
Good Lord. Men have been using tobacco for nye on I don’t know how many thousands of years.
I believe they just didn’t sale enough of it to keep it stocked.
I don’t get my dip CVS.
I don’t get cough syrup at the QuikStop.
I liked CVS because I could get my prescriptions in two widely-separated cities. Since I no longer leave home, I’m switching to Walgreen’s.
I noticed years ago that Walgreen’s’s ads always (at Christmas) mentioned “Christmas.” I hope that means they’re a good company.
Yeah... they tell you that you can’t smoke cigarettes. Then sue in a federal court to overturn a popular vote so THEY can smoke pot.
Liberal: You can’t buy cigarettes, but I can buy weed.
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