[SheLion]

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!

[SheLion]

Ah! New Jersey being heard from. They have been pretty quiet of late.

[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%.

[WindMinstrel]

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.

[posterkid]

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.

[philetus]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"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?

[Age of Reason]

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!!!

[newgeezer]

"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>

[Squawk 8888]

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.

[Centurion2000]

"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.

[NeoCaveman]

"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??

[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.

Leni

[TheLion]

I for one, would like to see doctors stop selling dangerous drugs through pharmacies.