Posted on 09/04/2014 5:12:36 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
CVS, the leading US drug chain by sales, announced Wednesday, September 3, that it had stopped selling tobacco products....
CVS was cheered by the White House as "setting a powerful example that we hope others in the industry will follow."
First Lady Michelle Obama tweeted: "Congratulations and thank you, CVS Health. Creating a healthier future for our next generation is one good reason to live tobacco-free."
(Excerpt) Read more at rappler.com ...
Greater health hazard - pack of smokes or the morning after pill?”
Was in Walgreen’s recently to pick up a prescription. Near the waiting area was a display with several shelves of school supplies. All kinds of paper, pens, markers, etc. One shelf, however, contained three different brands of medicine for treating head lice and a supply of the morning after pill.
Just takes the term getting ready to go back to school to a whole new level.
I think Walgreens actually has some worse policies than CVS.
Still, it’s the right to choose - if CVS wants to do away with a major, legal revenue stream, it’s their choice. I just won’t be buying their stock.
Seems to me I read somewhere that Soros provided the start-up money and is invested in CVS. I no longer shop there, but for different reasons. Walgreen’s presents its own set of issues. Noticed a lot of things I used to buy there are no longer available or are sold under a similar or different name and bear the Walgreen label. Asked the local store manager about it. She said they were instructed to pull about 3500 products off their shelves and replace them. When she complained, said she was told that she and the customers would “learn to deal with it”.
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