Indeed. Their business. Just like an Amish restaurant I went to once (The Amish Door, Wilmot OH I think)— due to their religious beliefs, they don’t sell booze and they are closed on Sundays. It’s their business.
Once CVS made its announcement I got talking on Facebook and joked about how CVS will apparently still have its aisles of candy and soda and don’t forget the lottery tickets (people are addicted to gambling, too). If they want to market themselves as a true health store and want to give these up, fine, and people can go across the street to Walgreen’s if they want smokes. What would be different would be statism, if a state outlawed things like these “for the common good”.
(For years Mass. wouldn’t allow stores to open on Sundays...shouldn’t you be in church instead, sir?)
Imagine if the US, or a state, outlawed tobacco. Not only would it be bad for the tobacco growers, think of all the TAXES that would not get collected. For that matter in my state, Mass., the nanny staters want higher taxes on soda and candy. That’s the solution, more money to the state coffers.
Thing is, the state relies on tobacco sales and the attendant taxes that go along with it.
The taxes pay for children programs galore.
They must hate chillun and frankly, it’s unAmerican...
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