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Doctor fights pharmacies over cigarette sales
Burlington County Times ^
| 23 September 2002
| Lisa Helem
Posted on 09/23/2002 1:49:31 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
I'm guessing that he's fronting for one of the big pharmacy chains. When Canadian provinces banned the sale of tobacco in pharmacies, the large drugstores were hardly affected because it was a small percentage of overall revenue. Corner drugstores OTOH were decimated because cigarette sales were the difference between profit and loss for those guys. Not surprisingly, Canada's biggest drugstore chain, which at the time was owned by Canada's biggest tobacco company, stayed out of the debate. Independant drugstores are virtually nonexistent here in Toronto since the tobacco ban.
To: Station 51
Wow, pretty harsh words for a fellow Freeper but I don't think IIIBay is an award presented to someone for achievement. I'm sorry, but that was mild compared to what I could have said. ![](http://www.hostfile.com/home/darlene/sad.gif)
But we get a little tired of other Conservatives coming in here and bashing us. We hear it enough from the anti's. We don't need to hear it from our own kind.
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09/23/2002 3:33:47 PM PDT
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SheLion
To: philetus
This just shows this doctor (Dr. Vernon Daly ) knows very little about addiction. You don't know much about addiction either, it appears.
Tobacco is legal. It it were an "addictive drug" as you suggest, it would not have been made legal hundreds of years ago. They would have kept it secret like opium and the like. I have had non-smoking girl friends who can not get up in the morning without their Pepsi. Talk about addiction!
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09/23/2002 3:36:39 PM PDT
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SheLion
To: SheLion
"If pharmacies today say they won't sell tobacco because of health reasons, a lot more people would stop smoking," No, we'll take our business elsewhere.
To: philetus
What about coffee drinkers? Can't get moving in the mornings without coffee? I have to have my coffee in the morning before I have anything.
And what about that fat man taking the Fast Food chain to court because he is addicted to their food and it made him gain 300 lbs? Addiction comes in all colors.
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posted on
09/23/2002 3:40:23 PM PDT
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SheLion
To: SheLion
no, I know plenty about addiction.
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posted on
09/23/2002 3:45:32 PM PDT
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philetus
To: SheLion
Did you actually understand what I posted?
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posted on
09/23/2002 3:47:29 PM PDT
by
philetus
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
09/23/2002 3:51:54 PM PDT
by
SheLion
To: Just another Joe
And finally - Funding for "NEW JERSEY BREATHES" is provided by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Center for Tobacco Free Kids and the contributions of member organizations. New Jersey Breathes is part of the national SmokeLess States Program administered by the American Medical Association. Thank you, Joe.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is not a respected non profit, it is under the control of left wing extremists who fund programs that further their social causes. Single payer health, anti evil tobacco companies. The AMA has been under the control of the same philosophical wackos for a while now. Read their journal, its gone down the tubes promoting junk science to justify their cause.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AMA working with 44 states to take away smoking rights.
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posted on
09/23/2002 3:56:52 PM PDT
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SheLion
To: Squawk 8888
I'm guessing that he's fronting for one of the big pharmacy chains. By Jove! You might be onto something!
BIG DRUG'S NICOTINE WAR
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I took notice of Nicorette Gum in our drug store awhile back: $49.95!!!!!!!!
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posted on
09/23/2002 4:01:07 PM PDT
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SheLion
To: Centurion2000
No, we'll take our business elsewhere. Exactly. There you go! That's what we do. Go somewhere else.
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09/23/2002 4:02:15 PM PDT
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SheLion
To: philetus
Did you actually understand what I posted? Hardcore tobacco users
I love to smoke. That makes me hardcore? I've never been hardcore in my life until I became a Conservative. Heh!
Tobacco user, like alcoholics and drug addicts
Although I do resent being lumped in with alcoholics and drug addicts. At least my smoking doesn't make me wacky in the head or not know the next morning what I did the night before. And I can still drive safely while smoking and not worry about killing anyone of the HWY.
Please don't lump us in with druggies.
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posted on
09/23/2002 4:09:15 PM PDT
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SheLion
To: Illbay
Since obesity has overtaken smoking as a health risk, lets ban Pharmacies from selling junk food.
To: SheLion
"If pharmacies today say they won't sell tobacco because of health reasons, a lot more people would stop smoking," said Daly yesterday at a Celebration of Tobacco-Free Pharmacies Friday in front of Rancocas Hospital on Sunset Road. What is this guy smoking??
To: Great Dane
Perhaps we should just have them advise clients only to smoke the proper number of cigarettes per day for good health.
How many cigarettes would that be?
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posted on
09/23/2002 5:02:24 PM PDT
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Illbay
To: dubyaismypresident
What is this guy smoking?? I dunno.........but it's all nuts!
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09/23/2002 5:14:46 PM PDT
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SheLion
To: SheLion
I wasn't lumping you or anyone in with druggies.
I too smoke cigarettes and I still enjoy them.
I do not believe (addiction to)tobacco is comparable to addiction to mind altering substances.
I was talking about the addiction process itself.
Although substance (and nicotine is a substance) abuse has a physical addiction property, the physical addiction is not what causes an addict (or smoker, not related to an addict) to use his/her drug of choice.
As long as I still like the way whatever I do makes me feel,as long as I don't want to quit more than I do,
as long as I choose to do it, nothing can make me quit.
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posted on
09/23/2002 5:21:12 PM PDT
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philetus
To: philetus
As long as I still like the way whatever I do makes me feel,as long as I don't want to quit more than I do, as long as I choose to do it, nothing can make me quit. Sorry. Don't mean to sound testy. I just get my back up. So many other Conservatives come in and bash us. It just gets tiring.
I just read a good letter by one gal:
The decision to use tobacco is an informed, legal, adult choice.
It is not the business of government, health professionals, nor any one else to make the personal determination of what is an 'acceptable risk' on behalf of others when it comes to the use of a legal product.
I thought that was pretty good and nails it!
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posted on
09/23/2002 5:49:25 PM PDT
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SheLion
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To: SheLion
I agree. No one ever forced me to smoke
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posted on
09/23/2002 5:54:02 PM PDT
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philetus
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