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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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What's next? Can't sell comic books in with Home and Garden? Playboy? Glamour? Over the counter meds, because people over dose on them as well?

This Doctor is pretty high on himself!

Then, if the FDA regulates tobacco products, they will be back in the Drug Stores. I sure pray we never see THAT!

1 posted on 09/23/2002 1:49:31 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: *puff_list; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Tumbleweed_Connection; red-dawg; ...
Ah! New Jersey being heard from. They have been pretty quiet of late.
2 posted on 09/23/2002 1:50:25 PM PDT by SheLion
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Sounds good to me. Notice this guy isn't asking for government intervention, but for pharmacies to voluntarily stop selling this cr*p.

I support this guy 100%.

3 posted on 09/23/2002 1:52:33 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: SheLion
Larry Downs, director of NJBreathes, encouraged residents to protest at the grassroots level at their local pharmacies.

Hot damn! Someone who finally gets it! Instead of demanding that Mommy Government step in and force people to stop (at the barrel of a gun) he's getting people together to use market-based ways of showing disapproval. Sure, he's being silly, but at least he's not trying to co-opt the government for his private agenda.
4 posted on 09/23/2002 1:53:23 PM PDT by WindMinstrel
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To: Illbay
What if Doctors write scripts that can only be be used at pharmacies that do not sell cigarettes? Would you support that?
5 posted on 09/23/2002 1:54:39 PM PDT by Station 51
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To: Illbay
Notice this guy isn't asking for government intervention, but for pharmacies to voluntarily stop selling this cr*p.

I was wondering about that when I read this:

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

6 posted on 09/23/2002 1:56:30 PM PDT by freeeee
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To: Station 51
What's not to support? It's still the consumer's choice. You don't like pharmacies to sell tobacco? Boycott 'em, and get other people to. Don't like doctors pushing for pharmacies to stop selling tobacco? Get a new doctor, and get your friends to do so.

No government involvement, no tax money spent on moral crusades, and people get what they want.
8 posted on 09/23/2002 1:56:49 PM PDT by WindMinstrel
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To: freeeee
"The time has come when we tell the pharmacies that they can no longer fill the prescription for tobacco addiction,"

Control and Restrict. That's all the anti's know. Control and Restrict.

9 posted on 09/23/2002 1:58:05 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
Heh, interesting. I respect him for suggesting they do this voluntarily instead of asking for a law, but if he thinks this will cause people to stop smoking he's smoking some great weed. If anything it will just ensure pharmacies lose the business of those who pop in for a convenient pack of smokes and pick up some other stuff at the same time because it's there.

Yes, I smoke.

11 posted on 09/23/2002 2:05:07 PM PDT by posterkid
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Your a plaque in Free Republic

Wow, pretty harsh words for a fellow Freeper but I don't think IIIBay is an award presented to someone for achievement.

12 posted on 09/23/2002 2:05:45 PM PDT by Station 51
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To: SheLion
Hardcore tobacco users, like any addict, are not going to quit because a doctor tells them it can kill them or because a drug store quits selling cigarettes.

This just shows this doctor (Dr. Vernon Daly ) knows very little about addiction.

Tobacco user, like alcoholics and drug addicts (which alcoholics really are) use their drug of choice because they CHOOSE to.No amount of scare tactics,pleading, threats,
programs, etc. will make them stop until they choose NOT to light a smoke, pick up a drink, etc.
13 posted on 09/23/2002 2:11:52 PM PDT by philetus
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To: INSENSITIVE GUY; SheLion
Knock off the personal attacks.
14 posted on 09/23/2002 2:14:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Illbay
Sounds good to me. Notice this guy isn't asking for government intervention, but for pharmacies to voluntarily stop selling this cr*p. I support this guy 100%.

Bingo. This how such things should be done.

15 posted on 09/23/2002 2:28:31 PM PDT by Sloth
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"If pharmacies today say they won't sell tobacco because of health reasons, a lot more people would stop smoking..."

So what is the word of the Surgeon General? Chopped liver?

16 posted on 09/23/2002 2:41:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: Illbay
Notice this guy isn't asking for government intervention

Maybe not but the people he's hanging with all do.
NJBreathes - "Our activities focus on altering the social norm of tobacco acceptance that the tobacco industry has nurtured. Tobacco is an addictive, health damaging product that causes more New Jersey deaths each year than AIDS, illegal drug use, violence, fires, homicides, suicides and vehicular accidents combined.

Some of the organizations that belong to NJBreathes - American Cancer Society, New Jersey Division, Inc., American Heart Association, American Lung Association of New Jersey, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, New Jersey Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP), University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, and the Black Men's Health Project Network.

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.

17 posted on 09/23/2002 2:45:13 PM PDT by Just another Joe
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They can also buy cigarettes, a practice Dr. Vernon Daly wants stopped.

Being able to buy cigarettes in pharmacies didn't stop me from quitting cigarettes years ago.

If that doctor wants to do something for mankind, he should try to invent a safe cigarette.

That way I can go back to smoking--like a chimney!!!

18 posted on 09/23/2002 2:54:40 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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"If pharmacies today say they won't sell tobacco because of health reasons, a lot more people would stop smoking," said Daly

What a dream world this guy must live in.

Or, maybe he's right. A lot of smokers smoke because they reason, "All that talk about tobacco being bad must be a big lie. Otherwise, they wouldn't sell it at the pharmacy." Yeah, that's it; Walgreens is killing people!</sarcasm>

19 posted on 09/23/2002 3:00:48 PM PDT by newgeezer
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If anything it will just ensure pharmacies lose the business of those who pop in for a convenient pack of smokes and pick up some other stuff at the same time because it's there.

The lawmakers are screaming because they are losing the taxes from cigarettes over the Internet, then along comes some knock head telling drug stores to lose the cigarettes. Why should any business refuse to sell a legal product? If they were selling weed under the counter I could understand it. But tobacco is LEGAL! Hello!

Just like restaurant smoking bans: smokers don't go anymore, and that takes a toll on their revenue.

20 posted on 09/23/2002 3:32:22 PM PDT by SheLion
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