This is about government control; nothing less. If the government truly was interested in the public health, suppressors would be mandatory for all shooters.
Once there are no smokers to eradicate, look for the government (followed by business) to go after caffeine.
And on. And on.
Other products to remove...Pringles, Beer and Wine, Beef Jerky, Little Debbie Cakes, Scissors...
Caffine will be left alone.
“Once there are no smokers to eradicate, look for the government (followed by business) to go after caffeine.”
But God forbid anyone dare mention the health risks of homosexual behavior!
I do have to admit that it always struck me as peculiar that at CVS or any *drug* store, folks could buy cigs at the front counter, and could pick up their cancer/CPD/sthma, etc. meds in the back.
I reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks.
Upon further review, the Usurper in Chief issued a congratulatory message to CVS within minutes of this decision being announced.
Clearly there was collusion involved. And probably coercion. I suspect CVS is going to jump to the head of the line for Obamacare reimbursement payments now.
Up here in Ontario Canada the government passed a law banning cigarette sales in drug stores years ago. Someone asked me to get some cartons of cigarettes from Costco up here and I puzzled since there is a pharmacy as part of the Costco stores up here so how they could sell them. What they did was put them in a caged room with black drapes hiding their very presence in the separate tire department so technically they did not taint the main section of Costco where the prescriptions were dispensed. Ingenuity I tells ya.
Screw them
They quit selling dip a while back
The hubris of their concern given over half their business is dealing narcotics
At least half
The space dedicated to tobacco products will not remain vacant. Look for CVS to find other products with higher margins and lower regulations than tobacco to sell in that space. I think the CVS stores will discover (or maybe they already have discovered) products which will make more than the $2 billion being made selling tobacco products.
Retailers often decide not to sell products of one sort of another. Those decisions are often made based on what other products they can sell given the limited space in their stores. Those decisions are not covered by the media, but this one is. The reason for that coverage is the media’s hatred of tobacco products.
Note: The claim that CVS will lose $2 billion in profits is a government-type of economic prediction which assumes CVS will not substitute products for sale in the space now filled by the product which will no longer be sold.
CVS is hardly a tobacco discount house; my friends who smoke cigarettes go to much cheaper places.
So you won’t have to see tobacco products on the way to buy your abortion pills.
Irish Blacks Smokers need not apply.
Nanny State PING!
It’s not a Government decision; it’s a private company’s business decision. Aside from positive PR, it frees up shelf space. Something else will go there that probably has a higher profit margin and more of a future.
Giving up $2 Billion in annual sales for no reason other than political correctness.
This A-Hole needs to be fired by his stockholders.
What I would like to see is for the tobacco companies to select just one state(NY) and quit selling their product in that state. It would be interesting to see just who hollers loudest. I’ll bet it will be those benefiting from the taxes on those products.
Maybe O/T, but I used to smoke and the last place in the world I’d go to get cigs was CVS, because I thought they were a bit pricey there. Maybe I’m wrong about that, but that was my perception at the time.
Their liquor is expensive, too, so if that were the next thing I wouldn’t care.