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Attorneys general call on top U.S. retailers to drop tobacco products
Reuters ^ | Mon Mar 17, 2014 12:16pm EDT | Phil Wahba

Posted on 03/18/2014 8:00:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A group of 28 U.S. attorneys general is urging chief executive officers of five major retailers, including Walmart, to stop selling tobacco products, saying it is contradictory to carry such items in stores that also provide health care services.

The companies receiving a letter on Sunday from the group were Wal-Mart Stores Inc, supermarket operators Kroger Co, Safeway Inc, which operate pharmacies, and drugstore chains Walgreen Co and Rite Aid Corp. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: activism; attorneysgeneral; nannystate; tobacco
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To: Olog-hai

Will they also call on the Justice Department to also drop a cigarete “Holder”?

Bad attempt at a bad joke, i.e. Holder.


41 posted on 03/18/2014 11:10:09 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Olog-hai
A group of 28 U.S. attorneys general is urging chief executive officers of five major retailers, including Walmart, to stop selling tobacco products, saying it is contradictory to carry such items in stores that also provide health care services.

42 posted on 03/18/2014 11:22:38 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Olog-hai

I quit smoking 5 years ago. Never thought that I’d be able to quit. But the “government” has no business telling private companies what they should be selling. And do these lawyers not know how much taxes their states bring in from tobacco sales?


43 posted on 03/18/2014 11:29:22 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Boojum
I didn’t see a list of the states these AGs are in. All blue, I’d expect

The article mentions the group being led by former Republican senator from Ohio, Mike DeWine.

Ohio just keeps getting worse.

I'm not laughing at those people stuck in California anymore, I'm rooted in Ohio and I don't want to leave.

44 posted on 03/18/2014 11:39:50 PM PDT by j. earl carter
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To: Olog-hai

Do “My people” menthol cigs count?


45 posted on 03/19/2014 1:29:15 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Olog-hai

Government cutting of the hands that feed them not to bright.


46 posted on 03/19/2014 1:58:56 AM PDT by bikerman
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To: bikerman

God, how I hate this meddling, intrusive, evil government.


47 posted on 03/19/2014 2:59:15 AM PDT by pallmallman (Q)
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To: Shadowstrike

An AMEN from me!!


48 posted on 03/19/2014 2:59:48 AM PDT by pallmallman (Q)
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To: Olog-hai
I wonder whether any of these states which run lotteries will be dropping that revenue stream.
49 posted on 03/19/2014 3:02:20 AM PDT by pa_dweller (Extremist tea-party-driven hostage-taking legislative arsonist without a life)
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To: Olog-hai

So there must be no murders, rapes or violent attacks happening? Glad we live in such a utopia!/s


50 posted on 03/19/2014 3:31:13 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve often wondered why these people assert that because a retailer carries healthy products they should not sell unhealthy products. Aren’t some people in the market for the former and some in the market for the latter? Or is that beyond these peoples’ weak understanding of markets?


51 posted on 03/19/2014 4:52:54 AM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: Olog-hai

....get rid of the bad tobacco, but replacing it with pot is ok. What kind of a world is this?


52 posted on 03/19/2014 5:44:12 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jeffersony")
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To: Bratch

I bet these same AGs have no problem with hospitals who perform abortions.


53 posted on 03/19/2014 9:14:47 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Olog-hai
A group of 28 U.S. attorneys general is urging chief executive officers of five major retailers, including Walmart, to stop selling tobacco products, saying it is contradictory to carry such items in stores that also provide health care services.

What is 'urged' today will be mandatory tomorrow.

54 posted on 03/19/2014 9:18:05 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Olog-hai

Are these the same Attornies General whose states reaped billions of dollars in the Master Settlement Agreement?


55 posted on 03/19/2014 9:22:55 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Olog-hai; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Mears; metesky; Madame Dufarge; Eric Blair 2084; libertarian27

Nanny State Ping

I do not even know where to begin with this one............


56 posted on 03/19/2014 9:30:38 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Lazamataz

Depending on the state, Tobacco taxes range from .2% (SC) to 4.4% (NH) of all TAX revenue.

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/monday-map-tobacco-tax-revenue-percentage-total-state-local-tax-revenue

How about these AGs lobby their state legislatures to refuse all local/state/federal tax revenue generated from cigarette sales?

After all, if it’s contradictory for retailers to offer health care services and profit from tobacco, it must also follow that it’s contradictory for states to do the same.


57 posted on 03/19/2014 9:31:07 AM PDT by Carlucci
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To: Carlucci
After all, if it’s contradictory for retailers to offer health care services and profit from tobacco, it must also follow that it’s contradictory for states to do the same.

What is even more contradictory is that tobacco taxes are used to pay for health care.............

58 posted on 03/19/2014 9:47:12 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: dfwgator

I’ve been looking for that for a long time, but could not remember the name of the movie or the characters! Thank you for the link.


59 posted on 03/19/2014 9:54:22 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: CSM

It’s a great movie.


60 posted on 03/19/2014 9:56:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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