I believe they are saying CVS sold $2 Billion in gross sales.
There’s a plethora of fed/state/ taxes on cigarettes.
CVS will now NOT be funneling their “Fair Share” of taxation to the Government..(I wonder if they’ll need to make that up somehow...;| )
So they are not giving up $2B for ‘healthy business’
They are cutting some problems with feds and taxes, and losing ‘some’ profit.