CVS stores to stop selling tobacco

[Blue_Adept]

(CNN) -- Want to pick up a pack of cigarettes with your prescription refill? A major U.S. pharmacy chain is breaking that habit.
CVS Caremark announced Wednesday that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its CVS/pharmacy stores by October 1 of this year.
The retailer said the move makes CVS/pharmacy the first chain of national pharmacies to take tobacco products off the shelves.
"Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health," Larry J. Merlo, president and CEO of CVS Caremark, said in a statement. "Put simply, the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose."

Interesting to read the comments there, especially the cut and paste ones about marijuana being more carcinogen filled.

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[NightWatcher]

1. Fast forward _ years when cannabis is sold there...

I like the way we're moving. Oh business idea. You've seen the Redbox movie vending machines.... Greenbox...

I'm lazy, feel free to run with it.

[BoneDancer]

2. Excellent. The only complaint I have with CVS is having to use mailorder for "maintenance" drugs.

Otherwise it is a great store.