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US pharmacy giant CVS ends tobacco sales [Obama Tweets Support]
Rappler ^ | 9/4/14

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: cronyism; freedom; pharmacy; pufflist
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I get some prescriptions from CVS. Since CVS seems to be in bed with Team Obama. Darn. Now I may have to switch to Walgreens.
1 posted on 09/04/2014 5:12:36 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

When do they begin selling marijuana?

Hypocrisy is becoming almost universal.


2 posted on 09/04/2014 5:14:27 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SoFloFreeper

The quality of tobacco products drug stores sell is not of interest to me, so I won’t miss it, but what’s next? candy?


3 posted on 09/04/2014 5:14:35 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: SoFloFreeper

Isnt Obama a Secret Smoker?
Anyways, They can do what they want. I don’t think Cigarettes made a lot of money for them anyways.


4 posted on 09/04/2014 5:15:27 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I guess Zero gets his smokes someplace else.


5 posted on 09/04/2014 5:16:06 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Sure....POT and BONG sales is where the money is now...

Liberals... Don't you just love'um....

6 posted on 09/04/2014 5:18:32 AM PDT by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

While I am not a smoker I support other people’s right to smoke. I also support the rights of a business to sell or not sell products they choose. BUT I wonder what CVS will do about all the meds they sell that have bad side effects?


7 posted on 09/04/2014 5:19:14 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Govt now influencing what a business does .

So if this is about health then when shall they get rid of Soda, candy, other drugs they have?
Or maybe this is about trying to put tobacco companies out of business due to them giving to the GOP.

Hope their sales suffer due to this now.


8 posted on 09/04/2014 5:25:01 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This will only hurt CVS sales. Smokers will simply go somewhere else to purchase their cigarettes (like the gas station). No big deal. You notice the stinking democrats don’t want to outright ban tobacco. They know that the sales tax funds a lot of their liberal agenda.


9 posted on 09/04/2014 5:29:17 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: SoFloFreeper

Greater health hazard - pack of smokes or the morning after pill? Hmmmm.


10 posted on 09/04/2014 5:32:05 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Barack is the wife.)
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To: rfreedom4u

“BUT I wonder what CVS will do about all the meds they sell that have bad side effects?”

Pharmaceuticals kill more people than cigarettes. But there’s more money there.


11 posted on 09/04/2014 5:32:09 AM PDT by all the best
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To: SoFloFreeper

Our local CVS has a very nice wine section. Several years ago it became MANDITORY to hand your drivers license to the cashier - who swiped it through a reader - to complete the sale. No DL, no sale.

I no longer buy anything from CVS.


12 posted on 09/04/2014 5:33:17 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I expect all pharmacies to stop selling tobacco within the next year or two.

Under Obamacare the regime controls their access to insurance payments for meds. Thus they can be “nudged” into the regime’s preferred patterns of behavior.


13 posted on 09/04/2014 5:37:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SoFloFreeper
First they came for the smokers .....
FUCCVS
14 posted on 09/04/2014 5:40:55 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Jack Hammer

I gave up smoking 15 years ago. I’ll never shop at CVS again. It’s about freedom of choice.


15 posted on 09/04/2014 5:41:12 AM PDT by grania
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To: Amagi
For the record, I'm not a smoker.
FUCVS
16 posted on 09/04/2014 5:42:48 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

Besides, they need all those tobacco plants to make Ebola drugs...


17 posted on 09/04/2014 5:44:21 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Good Lord. Men have been using tobacco for nye on I don’t know how many thousands of years.
I believe they just didn’t sale enough of it to keep it stocked.
I don’t get my dip CVS.
I don’t get cough syrup at the QuikStop.


18 posted on 09/04/2014 5:45:52 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I liked CVS because I could get my prescriptions in two widely-separated cities. Since I no longer leave home, I’m switching to Walgreen’s.

I noticed years ago that Walgreen’s’s ads always (at Christmas) mentioned “Christmas.” I hope that means they’re a good company.


19 posted on 09/04/2014 5:47:29 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: unread

Yeah... they tell you that you can’t smoke cigarettes. Then sue in a federal court to overturn a popular vote so THEY can smoke pot.

Liberal: You can’t buy cigarettes, but I can buy weed.


20 posted on 09/04/2014 5:48:47 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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