They will get the message loud an clear that CVS does not value their business, even if they do not purchase them there.
Doubtful.
Tobacco is just about the only product out there where there isn’t much resistance to levying additional taxes or imposing additional restrictions because it’s users/consumers are already beaten into the ground thinkingbtgat what they’re doing is bad.
And as others have said it’s also doubtful that anything more than a small % of tobacco consumers buy at a pharmacy vs buy at a convienience store or supermarket.
So looking at it from CVS’s perspective, where are they likely to reap the most profits going forward: in making pennies on the dollar selling tobacco products, or by plunking nurse practioners into all their stores who spend their days looking into ears and noses, running strep tests, etc at $50-80 per patient and then writing antibiotic or decongestant prescripts that are filled less than 30’ away?