Breaking News – CVS Ending all tobacco sales

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My CVS contact has some exciting news 🙂

CVS  ( 7,600 retail stores)  by Oct. 1 2014 will stop selling all tobacco products!!!

I personally am not a smoker so it does not really make a difference to me BUT I do applaud them making a healthier life style a little easier to obtain

This spring CVS will also be lauching a national smoking cessation program to help Americans stop smoking

I would love to know what YOU think about this ground breaking news

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  • KELLY MCGREW

    i think it’s a great thing that they chose to stop selling these products. It seems odd that a pharmacy would want to sell them anyway? But with the introduction of e-cigarettes (a healthier alternative?? not sure about this claim) I think it’s becoming more and more socially unacceptable to smoke cigarettes — which I am mildly happy about. I do think people should have the freedom to do as they please — but smoking is one of those things that affects others around them — second-hand smoke, smoking while pregnant, etc.

    When I was on CVS’s Facebook looking at their announcement, I saw hundreds of postings to the effect of “well if you’re going to cut out cigarettes why not soda and snacks and sweets? those are bad too CVS!!” However, I firmly believe that if they somehow did that, there’d be a far bigger outcry! People would say keep your hands out of my cart I can eat what I want! You can never make people happy it seems..

    All-in-all, I am happy that CVS has chosen to do this. It shows that they put their employees and customers above their profits (however I also saw posts about what is going to be the consequence for these revenue losses — pay cuts, closing stores, etc?)

  • MsKat

    *shrug* if this is what they want to do, it is fine with me. My only concern is, I hope they do not raise prices on everything else to make up for the lost revenue. Someone else mentioned staff cuts-where they shop there must be a full staff…the ones I go to already have had a severe lack of staff for years now and it got worse when they introduced self checkout and had the remaining staff direct everyone to use it. And that’s at every CVS I go to in my area, MD, DC, and VA. So at least here, the only thing I can see them being able to do is raise the prices on everything to compensate. They would likely lose a lot of customers that way to other similar stores, and I might be one of them. So I hope they can maintain prices and staff. Other than that I suppose it isn’t a bad idea. Doesn’t affect me either way. Perhaps liquor stores could become the one stop alcohol and tobacco stores and other stores wouldn’t have to be bothered.