Posted on 08/28/2024 12:39:19 PM PDT by Morgana
Stop & Shop will stop selling cigarettes and vapes this week as part of its dramatic commitment to 'community wellness'.
The American retailer will remove tobacco products from all 360 of its stores across the northeast from August 31.
The decision has been embraced by the American Cancer Society and health organizations.
The announcement follows the lead of CVS, Target and Walmart.
'From our team of registered dietitians that serve our customers at no cost to our trained and trusted pharmacy associates, Stop & Shop aims to support the health and well-being of the neighborhoods we serve — and this exit from tobacco is one more way we’re accomplishing that goal,' Stop & Shop President Gordon Reid said in a statement.
Stop & Shop is yet to reveal whether the products were still being sold in high volume.
Last month, the retailer announced it was closing 32 'underperforming' stores across five states; Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
While the number of smokers has gradually decreased globally over the last 25 years, there are still 1.6million in America.
Many have previously slammed retailers for pulling away from the products and have criticized local politicians for encouraging diminished sales while nurturing a budding marijuana industry.
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Just as well. Cigarettes are bad for you. I’m for one’s freedom to do stupid stuff but on this issue we can all be squishes.
Legalize mushrooms and ecstasy in old folks homes. They don’t have much to do and the dose can be controlled.
Those doing life should have access to hard drugs.
Guess they’ll just have to tax marijuana.
There are far more than 1.6 million smokers in America. There is an estimated 28.3 million adults in the United States currently smoke cigarettes and none of them will be shopping at these virtue signaling crap stores. Brilliant move.
You are on the anti-freedom side more a tan than the average Freeper. Why are you here?
Stop & Shop sucks.
This election is not about abortion; it's about preventing a third world war or a second great depression. The first time you ever see a hydrogen bomb blow off or walk into a superrmarket and see just empty shelves, you'll forget all about abortion.
Is Skittles also on the ban list? Ding Dongs, and Coca Cola drinks?
Why not tax the abortion pills?
I can understand folks 70 or older smoking, the truth about tobacco wasn't known or publicized yet.
But anyone 60 or younger has to be REALLY stupid and/or ignorant with all of the information available to have started smoking.
I've seen far too many of my friends going through a miserable death due to this insane behavior.
That is the problem with Socialized medicine like Obamacare. On the one hand, cigarette smoking is bad for you and it is your right. On the other hand, I end up paying for your smoking by paying higher premiums to cover your lung cancer treatments.
*Why are you here?*
Let’s see. Other fish to fry. Die on that hill if you wish.
Legal drugs are true to libertarian beliefs along with suicide. I don’t have time for either.
Any questions?
obesity and ebt cards should be in the crosshairs...
Agree. People will just shop somewhere else.
That’s the entire business model of insurance.
If you look into it deeply if Google hasn’t buried the evidence it was the science on cigarette smoking that started the fake science crap. That’s all I’m going to say but you could see what it turned into and that’s because people didn’t mind that they attacked smokers but soon they’ll come for you for something you do.
Probably not a deal-breaker for many. You can get cigarettes elsewhere. The local pet store sells cigarettes.
Smokers are usually pretty good about dying without running up costs. Worry more about the obese...diabetes, knee replacements...
“That’s all I’m going to say”
Why?
If you have any actual evidence that the science on smoking is “fake science” why can’t you share it?
If the can tax alcohol and cigarettes as a sin tax, why not that too?
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