Posted on 02/09/2014 2:20:11 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
IT IS GREAT CVS is ending cigarette sales by October, and I know exactly what other dangerous products should go behind the counter when the wall of cancer sticks comes down: Coke, Pepsi, Gatorade, Red Bull, and all other sugary beverages. I say this because I take CVS’s new public health pronouncements seriously.
In announcing the tobacco ban, CVS chief medical officer Troyen Brennan said the drugstore industry is positioning itself to offer more clinical services for chronic diseases. He wrote Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association that it is a “paradox” to sell cigarettes as pharmacies work with primary care clinicians to treat hypertension, diabetes, and other conditions “exacerbated by smoking.”
If CVS truly cares about all the sources of diabetes and other preventable diseases, soda should be the next target. Two days before Brennan’s op-ed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the most dramatic findings yet linking high sugar consumption to heart disease. The WHO and the American Heart Association recommend that less than 10 percent of a person’s daily calories should come from the added sugars found in processed foods, snacks, and beverages. But 71 percent of Americans exceed that figure.
The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that people whose added sugars comprise between 10 to 25 percent of their calories were at 30 percent higher risk of dying from heart disease...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
CVS = Carrot-Vegetable Shop
Don’t forget that Subway is now teamed up with Mrs. Obama to dictate what our children can eat:
Subway joins first lady Michelle Obama’s healthy eating effort
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3115837/posts
I have no problem with this action by CVS. It is their business and they get to run their stores as the wish.
Oh, I agree. And I don’t have to darken their doorways, either. And no, I’m not a smoker.
There’s a good selection of sweets in those type of stores. Can they forego the profits form that too? (Type II diabetes)
They banned Tabasco?
I prefer Cholula anyway.
Indeed. Their business. Just like an Amish restaurant I went to once (The Amish Door, Wilmot OH I think)— due to their religious beliefs, they don’t sell booze and they are closed on Sundays. It’s their business.
Once CVS made its announcement I got talking on Facebook and joked about how CVS will apparently still have its aisles of candy and soda and don’t forget the lottery tickets (people are addicted to gambling, too). If they want to market themselves as a true health store and want to give these up, fine, and people can go across the street to Walgreen’s if they want smokes. What would be different would be statism, if a state outlawed things like these “for the common good”.
(For years Mass. wouldn’t allow stores to open on Sundays...shouldn’t you be in church instead, sir?)
Imagine if the US, or a state, outlawed tobacco. Not only would it be bad for the tobacco growers, think of all the TAXES that would not get collected. For that matter in my state, Mass., the nanny staters want higher taxes on soda and candy. That’s the solution, more money to the state coffers.
CVS can sell or not sell anything they want. It is their business.
This action opened the door for the Marxists to start thinking that maybe they can now dictate what a pharmacy or any other store can or cannot sell.
I see years of wrangling and targeting those businesses that don’t tow the Marxist line.
Yes, CVS, get rid of ALL those impulse candies, energy drinks, beef jerky, etc. at the checkouts. Be true to your ideals.
Followed by energy drinks and candy which will finally upset the libnerd progressives so much they finally understand to what degree of a traitor 0 is especially when they discover Moochelle has a whole stash of both at the WH and doesn’t follow her own advice. Libnerds can’t make it without their Monster energy drinks.
> I have no problem with this action by CVS. It is their business and they get to run their stores as the wish.
That’s not the issue. Setting the precedent for other stores to follow suit is (that is, if they are given a choice).
The Marxists will applaud decisions like CVS’s openly, but behind the facade, they are terrified that if dozens of other companies follow suit, cigarette tax money will dry up.
About 57% of the cost of a pack is comprised of local, state and federal taxes.
Just making shelf space for the “medical” pot ;-)
You may be right.
Well - i have an idea for a new store... and i’m not telling yet. ;-)
What might be occurring is CVS has agreed to conduct a social experiment for the government to see how The People will react to this type of intrusion. If they can get the mindless libs to follow along stating whatever reason sounds good (to keep medical costs down for the ACA will probably be the one touted) they know they can march forward to control even more aspects of our lives. I’m guessing CVS will probably recieve a huge tax break as an incentive.
CVS is still selling morning after pills, I’d assume.
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