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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

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP- In many local pharmacies, customers can purchase everything from cold medicine to candy bars. They can also buy cigarettes, a practice Dr. Vernon Daly wants stopped.

He says tobacco kills 14,000 New Jersey residents annually and has no place in a health setting.

"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.

Daly is the president of the Heureka Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Burlington Township.

The seminar was organized to recognize pharmacies that don't carry tobacco products and to encourage residents to pressure the pharmacies that do.

"The time has come when we tell the pharmacies that they can no longer fill the prescription for tobacco addiction," said Daly to an audience of about 20.

The program was part of a joint effort by the Heureka Center and NJBreathes, a coalition of organizations in the state that works to curb the effects of smoking in the state.

As part of the event, Daly handed out copies of the second edition of the New Jersey Tobacco Free Pharmacy Directory. The directory lists 16 independent pharmacies in Burlington County that do not sell tobacco products.

Statewide, about 141 pharmacies are tobacco free, Daly said.

Larry Downs, director of NJBreathes, encouraged residents to protest at the grassroots level at their local pharmacies. "Why should you be able to get your chemotherapy medicines in the same place you can get a cancer-causing agent?" he asked.

At the close of the program, Daly encouraged representatives from tobacco-free pharmacies in the state to display "Tobacco Free Network" signs in their store windows.

He also asked them to display in their shops anti-smoking posters.

 


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Culture/Society; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: antismokers; butts; cigarettes; individualliberty; niconazis; prohibitionists; pufflist; smokingbans; taxes; tobacco
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To: philetus
Sounds like the oral sex is not sex argument. You're an addict. Deal with it.

39 posted on 9/23/02 8:52 PM Eastern by Whee The People

See why I get testy? Always waiting for some anti to come in here and trash us. ~sigh

41 posted on 09/23/2002 6:12:20 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: Whee The People
Sounds like the oral sex is not sex argument. You're an addict. Deal with it.

Get over your SELF!

42 posted on 09/23/2002 6:13:00 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
I can't believe some people think that the life-style dictators in this country should be given a pass just because the government isn't involved in this particular aspect of the tobacco jihad.

Leni

43 posted on 09/23/2002 6:20:17 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal
I can't believe some people think that the life-style dictators in this country should be given a pass just because the government isn't involved in this particular aspect of the tobacco jihad.

They just keep coming out of the woodwork. Protecting freedoms is not an easy task.

44 posted on 09/23/2002 6:38:13 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: Whee The People
Sounds like the oral sex is not sex argument. You're an addict. Deal with it.

Why is it that calling adults who CHOOSE to smoke a perfectly legal product can be called derisively "an addict" and that doesn't constitute a personal attack? But calling nico-Nazis what they really are can get a post pulled?

45 posted on 09/23/2002 8:39:39 PM PDT by Max McGarrity
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To: MinuteGal
I can't believe some people think that the life-style dictators in this country should be given a pass just because the government isn't involved

Yeah how dare those Christians over at the 700 Club urge girls to remain virgins till marriage? The nerve of 'em.

46 posted on 09/23/2002 10:29:36 PM PDT by Drango
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To: freeeee
I think your name and your direct quote below is a dictionary definition of hypocracy.

"The time has come when we tell the pharmacies that they can no longer fill the prescription for tobacco addiction,"

What part of 'free' don't you understand? You have NO idea of what the word means.

Nam Vet

47 posted on 09/23/2002 10:39:21 PM PDT by Nam Vet
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To: freeeee
Oops, just noticed that you were quoting. Mucho apologies.

But whoever feels that way Has no concept of freedom. Sorry I misread.

Nam Vet

48 posted on 09/23/2002 10:41:57 PM PDT by Nam Vet
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To: SheLion
I for one, would like to see doctors stop selling dangerous drugs through pharmacies.
49 posted on 09/23/2002 10:50:23 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: WindMinstrel
Except prescriptions aren't part of the free market either. The fact that you need a script to buy anything is the result of big government.
50 posted on 09/23/2002 11:10:16 PM PDT by weikel
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