CVS will stop selling cigarettes

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Anonymous wrote:Beer and wine.

They should be forced to stop doing that. Why not tax them $100 per six pack?

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Anonymous wrote:The business logic is that they want to be a company focused on health. They are investing a lot in their urgent care and they think they can get a share of the health care dollars. But they believe that selling cigarettes is in conflict with that goal.

I have to agree. Not that many people would see a doctor who had a cigarette vending machine in the office waiting room.

They want to be focused on health yet sell tons of junk, processed, and canned foods in their stores??

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Anonymous wrote:The business logic is that they want to be a company focused on health. They are investing a lot in their urgent care and they think they can get a share of the health care dollars. But they believe that selling cigarettes is in conflict with that goal.

I have to agree. Not that many people would see a doctor who had a cigarette vending machine in the office waiting room.

They want to be focused on health yet sell tons of junk, processed, and canned foods in their stores??

Golly, I guess they should either get into the flax grinding business or become heroin dealers. There is no room in the middle.

Way to take a great public health advance and find a way to criticize.

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Anonymous wrote:Every store should be pressured to stop selling cigarettes. It would be a big public health improvement. I'm not advocating a ban; just make tobacco completely unavailable or too costly for anyone to have.

OMG, aren't they like 10 bucks a pack now? I really don't know how anyone can afford that habit as is. I can't imagine that too many people are picking up that habit now..

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Anonymous wrote:The business logic is that they want to be a company focused on health. They are investing a lot in their urgent care and they think they can get a share of the health care dollars. But they believe that selling cigarettes is in conflict with that goal.

I have to agree. Not that many people would see a doctor who had a cigarette vending machine in the office waiting room.

They want to be focused on health yet sell tons of junk, processed, and canned foods in their stores??

Golly, I guess they should either get into the flax grinding business or become heroin dealers. There is no room in the middle.

Way to take a great public health advance and find a way to criticize.

+1

The perfect should not be the enemy of the good. I applaud their decision and will be more likely to choose CVS in future as a result of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Every store should be pressured to stop selling cigarettes. It would be a big public health improvement. I'm not advocating a ban; just make tobacco completely unavailable or too costly for anyone to have.

OMG, aren't they like 10 bucks a pack now? I really don't know how anyone can afford that habit as is. I can't imagine that too many people are picking up that habit now..

No. $5.80 in VA. But $14.50 in NYC, and pricing does make a difference, esp. for the adoption of smoking by teens.

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Anonymous wrote:Every store should be pressured to stop selling cigarettes. It would be a big public health improvement. I'm not advocating a ban; just make tobacco completely unavailable or too costly for anyone to have.

OMG, aren't they like 10 bucks a pack now? I really don't know how anyone can afford that habit as is. I can't imagine that too many people are picking up that habit now..

No. $5.80 in VA. But $14.50 in NYC, and pricing does make a difference, esp. for the adoption of smoking by teens.

$5.80 a pack would be a prohibitive amount for most teens (at least the ones I'm around) - a pack a day would cost over 40 bucks a week, $160 a month. I would think that only hard core smokers are buying cigarettes now days.

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Anonymous wrote:Every store should be pressured to stop selling cigarettes. It would be a big public health improvement. I'm not advocating a ban; just make tobacco completely unavailable or too costly for anyone to have.

OMG, aren't they like 10 bucks a pack now? I really don't know how anyone can afford that habit as is. I can't imagine that too many people are picking up that habit now..

No. $5.80 in VA. But $14.50 in NYC, and pricing does make a difference, esp. for the adoption of smoking by teens.

$5.80 a pack would be a prohibitive amount for most teens (at least the ones I'm around) - a pack a day would cost over 40 bucks a week, $160 a month. I would think that only hard core smokers are buying cigarettes now days.

19% of adults in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

I think the 19% figure is national as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the 19% figure is national as well.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/150779/Smoking-Rates-Remain-Highest-Kentucky-Lowest-Utah.aspx#1

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Anonymous wrote:Every store should be pressured to stop selling cigarettes. It would be a big public health improvement. I'm not advocating a ban; just make tobacco completely unavailable or too costly for anyone to have.

OMG, aren't they like 10 bucks a pack now? I really don't know how anyone can afford that habit as is. I can't imagine that too many people are picking up that habit now..

No. $5.80 in VA. But $14.50 in NYC, and pricing does make a difference, esp. for the adoption of smoking by teens.

$14.50 a pack sounds good to me; why not $30? I am not a smoker, so fuck them. Not my problem & they surely cost me money when they get lung cancer.

If you can't ban it, then tax it.

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Gretchen Carlson asks if a private company can legally restrict the availability of tobacco,

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/05/fox-freaks-out-over-cvs-ending-sales-of-tobacco/197947

That's pretty funny coming from a network that thinks Hobby Lobby should be able to leally restrict the availability of birth control.

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Anonymous wrote:Every store should be pressured to stop selling cigarettes. It would be a big public health improvement. I'm not advocating a ban; just make tobacco completely unavailable or too costly for anyone to have.

OMG, aren't they like 10 bucks a pack now? I really don't know how anyone can afford that habit as is. I can't imagine that too many people are picking up that habit now..

No. $5.80 in VA. But $14.50 in NYC, and pricing does make a difference, esp. for the adoption of smoking by teens.

$5.80 a pack would be a prohibitive amount for most teens (at least the ones I'm around) - a pack a day would cost over 40 bucks a week, $160 a month. I would think that only hard core smokers are buying cigarettes now days.

19% of adults in Virginia.

Yes, I'm aware that people still smoke. But what percentage of them are NEW smokers, though. I'd love to see an age break down because I'm guessing that majority are over 35 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:Every store should be pressured to stop selling cigarettes. It would be a big public health improvement. I'm not advocating a ban; just make tobacco completely unavailable or too costly for anyone to have.

OMG, aren't they like 10 bucks a pack now? I really don't know how anyone can afford that habit as is. I can't imagine that too many people are picking up that habit now..

No. $5.80 in VA. But $14.50 in NYC, and pricing does make a difference, esp. for the adoption of smoking by teens.

$5.80 a pack would be a prohibitive amount for most teens (at least the ones I'm around) - a pack a day would cost over 40 bucks a week, $160 a month. I would think that only hard core smokers are buying cigarettes now days.

13% of va HS students.
http://www.vfhy.org/statistics/tobacco/numbers
19% of adults in Virginia.

Yes, I'm aware that people still smoke. But what percentage of them are NEW smokers, though. I'd love to see an age break down because I'm guessing that majority are over 35 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:Every store should be pressured to stop selling cigarettes. It would be a big public health improvement. I'm not advocating a ban; just make tobacco completely unavailable or too costly for anyone to have.

OMG, aren't they like 10 bucks a pack now? I really don't know how anyone can afford that habit as is. I can't imagine that too many people are picking up that habit now..

No. $5.80 in VA. But $14.50 in NYC, and pricing does make a difference, esp. for the adoption of smoking by teens.

$5.80 a pack would be a prohibitive amount for most teens (at least the ones I'm around) - a pack a day would cost over 40 bucks a week, $160 a month. I would think that only hard core smokers are buying cigarettes now days.

19% of adults in Virginia.

Yes, I'm aware that people still smoke. But what percentage of them are NEW smokers, though. I'd love to see an age break down because I'm guessing that majority are over 35 years old.

13% of HS students in va. http://www.vfhy.org/statistics/tobacco/numbers