CVS will stop selling cigarettes
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Anonymous
| What a brave thing for a public company to do. They sell about 2% of the cigarettes in America, it's 3% of their sales and probably when you add on incidental purchases for people who come in to buy cigarettes, it's even more. Good for them. |
Anonymous
| agreed. |
Anonymous
| I'm curious why they stopped selling cigarettes but not alcohol, if the reason was health. |
Anonymous
Modest consumption of alcohol has a positive or at worst a neutral effect on longevity. You can't say that about cigarettes. Every dose has a negative impact on health. Also, alcohol is linked to 88,000 deaths per year, while for cigarettes the number is 440,000. |
Anonymous
| CVS has probably calculated that they can make profit from prescribing smoking cessation drugs in their Minute clinic & having the prescriptions filled in the store |
Anonymous
CVS sells alcohol? |
Anonymous
| Beer and wine. |
Anonymous
| Whether your CVS sells beer and wine depends on where you live and the county or state laws. |
Anonymous
They already sell smoking cessation drugs, OTC and prescription. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
| I applaud their decision. I plan to shop there even though I've been a Walgreens fan previously. Even if they've somehow calculated a way to make this profitable from a bottom line perspective (which I'm not sure about as their cigarette sales earn over a billion in profits annually), I'd rather the profit come from smoking cessation Rx's or pretty much anything else. Hopefully other companies will follow suit. |
Anonymous
| Of all the stores I shop at regularly the ONE store where someone always seems to be buying a pack of cigarettes is CVS. It's interesting that they've decided to stop selling them... |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
California required all drugstores to stop selling cigarettes a while ago. You can only get them at convenience stores or gas stations. |
Anonymous
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Their decision will increase alcohol consumption and obesity, because bars and grocery stores will be the last places left with cigarette machines.
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