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...
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Oh' I agree, but I think everyone would agree it is demonstrable harder to quit smoking than stop drinking coffee or you're getting your Mountain Dew fix...
Cigarettes have a chemical dependency and psychological behavior wired into person...tough habit to break...not impossible...
CVS must want the feds off their back for how they have been filling out prescription’s they have been under investigation’s for some time now.
I think back before America became consumed with our looks, and everyone was on some sort of prescribed drug, drug stores were a sort of local convenience store. Now drug stores sell mostly beauty "aids" and prescriptions and are a big part of their business to the point where selling cigarettes is not worth the trouble.
Oh’ I agree, but I think everyone would agree it is demonstrable harder to quit smoking than stop drinking coffee or you’re getting your Mountain Dew fix...
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Fair enough.
I believe they are saying CVS sold $2 Billion in gross sales.
There’s a plethora of fed/state/ taxes on cigarettes.
CVS will now NOT be funneling their “Fair Share” of taxation to the Government..(I wonder if they’ll need to make that up somehow...;| )
Why wait? Start your Chik-Fil-A addiction tomorrow (they’re closed today). Have a Wawa or Firehouse sub today.
mmmmmm.....gravy.....
I’ve heard of Firehouse subs. What is Wawa?
So they are not giving up $2B for ‘healthy business’
They are cutting some problems with feds and taxes, and losing ‘some’ profit.
CVS could save billions of trees a year by not giving every customer a 45” long receipt for a pack of gum.
I’m a Tapatio guy.
Wawa is a deluxe gas-n-go. Usually the lowest gas prices in the area, a nice selection of coffees, and most have a deli inside with a very good menu. Hopefully one near you.
Gotta have a Wawa
www.wawa.com
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