CVS Pharmacies To Stop Selling Cigarettes (2 Viewers)

[PanzerAce1944]

Just caught this on the news that all CVS Pharmacies nationwide will soon stop selling Tobacco products, their logic being they are a business to promote health ! I applaud them in this move as they stand to LOSE
2 Billion Dollars annually from the move to no longer sell tobacco products.


CVS .................. {bravo}}

 

[Jack]

Just caught this on the news that all CVS Pharmacies nationwide will soon stop selling Tobacco products, their logic being they are a business to promote health ! I applaud them in this move as they stand to LOSE
2 Billion Dollars annually from the move to no longer sell tobacco products.


CVS .................. {bravo}}

As a person who has never even tried a cigarette, I feel that anything that stops people stinking of smoke is a good move. I wonder what kind of market there is for 'how to give up smoking' kits?

 

[mikemiller1955]

yea...
I saw this today on CNN...
that is a staggering lose of revenue for CVS...
the truth is...
"us smokers" will just get our cigarettes somewhere else...
^&grin

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

They needed the room for when weed becomes legal in the rest of the country

 

[Jack]

yea...
I saw this today on CNN...
that is a staggering lose of revenue for CVS...
the truth is...
"us smokers" will just get our cigarettes somewhere else...
^&grin

I have heard it said that stopping cigarette smoking is nothing but a pipe dream!

 

[marco55]

We've had stores around here stop selling cigarettes.They didn't last long.
Mark

 

[Napoleon1er]

Mike is right, but I see their logic. I son't smoke, and I have nothing against those who do (you get used to the smell at military school,) but it is important to make sure future generations don't pick it up.

 

[Panzer ace]

Considering CVS had sales of $123 billion in 2012 I think they are going to be ok.

 

[nysoldiers]

Shows that the private sector is capable of making moral decisions without government intervention.

 

[mikemiller1955]

They needed the room for when weed becomes legal in the rest of the country

hehehe...^&grin

Considering CVS had sales of $123 billion in 2012 I think they are going to be ok.

can't imagine the stock went up on that news...

they need to find a way to replace that 2 billion a year in revenues...

wonder if Walgreens or Rite aid will follow suit...

or just pick up CVS's smoking customers revenues...

 

[lancer]

Knowing what I pay for my CVS high-option prescription plan and just how big CVS is in health care, I can't imagine that CVS will have much trouble making up the money they lose on the smokes. -- Al

 

[Panzer ace]

hehehe...^&grin



can't imagine the stock went up on that news...

they need to find a way to replace that 2 billion a year in revenues...

wonder if Walgreens or Rite aid will follow suit...

or just pick up CVS's smoking customers revenues...

They will probably make up the $2 billion by increasing their marketing/sales of prescription smoking cessation products.

^&grin

 

[PanzerAce1944]

They will probably make up the $2 billion by increasing their marketing/sales of prescription smoking cessation products.

^&grin

You are probably right ! :salute::

 

[mikemiller1955]

while CVS does not currently market E cigs...they presently decline to commit to banning sales of them in their store in the future...

 

[johnnybach]

yea...
I saw this today on CNN...
that is a staggering lose of revenue for CVS...
the truth is...
"us smokers" will just get our cigarettes somewhere else...
^&grin

As long as you smoke 'em "somewhere else" - and stop clogging up Doctor's Surgeries/ Hospitals etc, "somewhere else" - I'm sure it will suit us non-smokers fine. jb

 

[Jack]

I have heard it said that stopping cigarette smoking is nothing but a pipe dream!

No 'likes' on this first class, top quality pun?

 

[marco55]

As long as you smoke 'em "somewhere else" - and stop clogging up Doctor's Surgeries/ Hospitals etc, "somewhere else" - I'm sure it will suit us non-smokers fine. jb

Smoking didn't bother anybody until the the government told them it did and then everybody started coughing when they were around it.
Mark

 

[lancer]

No 'likes' on this first class, top quality pun?

Sorry. It blew right past me. Guess I had smoke in my eyes.:tongue: -- Al

 

[johnnybach]

Smoking didn't bother anybody until the the government told them it did and then everybody started coughing when they were around it.
Mark

It didn't used to bother me either - until I found out the relationship between smoking and respiratory/heart diseases. It does bother me now, because I KNOW better.

Not only by "Government telling me" - I read about it, and listened to the professionals too.

But NOW that I do know - I avoid it wherever I can. Thankfully, non-smoking is becoming the norm in most of the Western World - and other legal restraints help with "secondary smoking" too. Many British Companies now have now adopted no-smoking policies in workplaces - and Restaurants too, nowadays comply with laws - though I note that in some Third-World Countries - it is on the increase once again, due to lack of health awareness - and promotions by Tobacco Companies.

Smokers may wish to carry on - and as they say - It's a free Country. I have no wish to impose my views on anyone

I say to those who wish to smoke - just don't impose your habit on those of us who wish to avoid it. That's reasonable enough - isn't it? jb

 

[lancer]

Smoking didn't bother anybody until the the government told them it did and then everybody started coughing when they were around it.
Mark

I might have to argue with this statement. Smoking killed my mom at the tender age of 55, incapacitated my father for the last years of his life, and left all 4 of we children with chronic bronchitis to contend with after being exposed to the heavy second-hand smoke for all those years in the same house. I would say the government warnings were way late in our cases. -- Al