On October 1, 2014, All CVS drug stores will stop sale-ing Cancer sticks or cigarettes and it is true

"On February 5, 2014 CVS announced that the company would discontinue the sale of all tobacco and cigarette products from their stores by October 1, 2014. In a statement explaining the change, CVS President & CEO Larry J. Merlo said, "We came to the decision that cigarettes and providing health care just don’t go together in the same setting."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVS_Caremark

How do I feel about this move by the major Drug store change,  I like  it, I have even called CVS  and said thank you for stop selling cigarettes /cancer sticks

So I would like to know how the rest of vizzed feels about this move by a drug store?

It's quite silly for a health/drug store to be selling cigarettes. It's like a Gym selling Big Macs.  I think it's a good move, though where I live, I don't think any drug stores sell cigarettes.

I have been praying for this.  I always wondered why CVS sold them in the first place!  It's been years since we have known how bad those things can be for you.  I can't believe CVS has taken this long to take them off the shelves!

I've often wondered about them selling cigarettes, all pharmacies around where I live sell cigarettes - it makes no sense. It's like how it's bad to drink and drive, while the gas stations in my area sell alcohol.

Good move for them, I wonder if other pharmacies will follow suit.

If a person wants to buy and smoke cigarettes, it's their right.  Removing locations for them to do so simply lowers the shopping done at those stores by people who would smoke.  It'll decrease revenue.

Smokers are adults who are making informed decisions.  Because you don't agree with smoking doesn't mean you have any right to take it away from others.  CVS also sells candy, chocolate, alcohol, and other snack foods that contribute to obesity and heart disease.  Those cause many more deaths than smoke-related lung cancer.

When will they stop selling garbage junk food and alcohol?  When they do that, we'll start talking about CVS being a store promoting healthy living.

//Not a smoker

Well to all the  people that have posted I say thank you! And now to the subject a hand. Yes I tend to say with the people who don't smoke, and for once CVS is returning to it's Drug store roots and not  worried about the money, yes people can buy their cigarettes, at a  BP or a shell Gas station and I don't think that cvs would sell Alcohol or beer.  well they due sell Junk /snack food.  But IF  my State can become a cigarettes-less and "Dry and I would be happy. But it is can only dream.

FrankThePunisherCastle : Why dry?  What do you have against alcohol?  They made this amendment called the 21st to say, "wait, we recognize it is impossible to stop people from drinking alcoholic beverages."

Why go dry?

It's a nice thing for CVS I guess, but I don't really see the importance of it. It's not like people who smoke are going to realize that CVS stopped selling them and go "I guess that means I can't smoke anymore ", they'll just go somewhere else and buy them.

This effects the amount of overall cigarettes being sold absolutely 0%, The only effect will be their loss in profit.

You also made a comment about hoping your state would go dry and cigaretteless, that's simply an impossibility, even if you made alcohol and tobacco illegal, it would just go to the black market, and then be an even bigger problem.

As far as im aware they dont operate in the uk so it doesn't affect me.
Equally no drug stores sell cigarettes here so that adds to my confusion in the matter.
A drug store selling cigarettes is pretty ridiculous.

The reason why I said a dry state is because of people's livers, and because of Drinking /buzzed while driving, I'm not heal nut by any means but it is about time that cvs and hopefully all the Drug store with stop selling cigarettes or this world might have the COPD Generation thanks to those Cancer sticks. Because COPD is caused by smoking. But Like others have said it this thread.
Its the person choice to have black lugs and a beer soaked liver  by smoking and drinking..

It's not such a big deal to me because where I live to health stores sell cigarettes. The only place to buy them is the gas station.

I think it's a good movement for CVS to do. Maybe other drug stores won't feel pressed to sell cigarettes as well.

I do not agree with making whole states or areas of land smoke free (or drink free), however, as that DOES violate one's rights to smoke and drink. As long as the people participating in those activities are of age, it's perfectly normal and a decision they have the right to make. Just because one doesn't like smoking or drinking does not give anyone the right to control those who do.

What CVS is doing is not violating any rights because it is their own chain of stores or their choice. It's not like they are making smokers quit as they have other places to purchase their cigarettes. It WOULD be violating one's rights to ban the use of cigarettes and alcohol of entire areas (including private areas such as the home).

Also, when asking for opinions, it's best to keep at LEAST the topic sentence objective. Use of the word "cancer sticks" immediately shows you are not for cigarettes, which makes it sound like you are only looking for those who agree with you.

Facebook suggested I like CVS for some reason and I saw their post about taking cigarettes out of their stores, and the comments were hilarious. So many people were copping this victim attitude. "OH, NO MORE CIGARETTES AT CVS? THEY LOST ME AS A CUSTOMER. HOW INCOSIDERATE. UNTIL THEY STOP SELLING ALCOHOL AND JUNK FOOD, THEY WON'T GAIN BACK MY PATRONAGE."

Really? Even people who smoke know that smoking is unhealthy. At least, I thought so, but there were literally hundreds of people acting like they were personally attacked because something unhealthy wasn't being publicly available at a store who's main purpose is to keep people healthy. Even if it's slightly inconvenient that you have to buy your smokes at a gas station or Walmart like *EVERYONE* else, how can you be outwardly angry about it? It baffled me. And then they're pointing fingers at all the other "unhealthy addictions" like alcohol and junk food, which is BS. You can drink casually and it isn't unhealthy for you. You can eat junk food occasionally and it isn't unhealthy for you. Even just a few cigarettes is harmful. Being around a cigarette is harmful. Sure, it's not going to instantly destroy your lungs, but it's much more unhealthy for your body. It's adorable that they want to act like they're being penalized and bullied for smoking, since junk food and booze aren't being removed, but that's just idiotic. Selling cigarettes at a pharmacy is just bad marketing and foolish. It gives a really confusing image, and is really unnecessary. Heaven forbid you can't get a pack of cigarettes while you're picking up your cholesterol meds and your kid's inhaler.

Smoking and smokers don't really bother me, but these people were hilariously belligerent. It's too bad they have one less place to buy cigarettes I guess, but no one's saying they can't buy them elsewhere. Cigarettes should have been taken out of pharmacies years and years ago. Good on CVS for going through with it and dealing with the whiney protests.

This feed back is cool and all, But I have a question  Do or would you think that E cigarettes might  fall in between the cracks or Do you think that CVS will banned them as well?

It's a good decision, and e-cigs are OK, they have no nicotine.

CVS is just making an economic decision. Lets not praise them for something that is just about money.

However, I'm no supporter of cigarettes. Any land growing tobacco can certainly be more useful producing something else that is actually beneficial to society.

Good on CVS, even though I feel as if it was for the sake of money, say not affording to stock them or something along those lines, it is good for a chain to not carry them.

I laugh at how the chain was selling health care and cigarettes in the same place, how ironic. I don't have CVS in the area, but there's a select few pharmacies that sell cigarettes in my area.

They're quite unhealthy for sure, the napkin test and the overall effect they have on your health is pretty horrible, I'd go as far as saying there's quite a bit of those illegal substances that are much healthier.

I can't say I get addicted to them as most seem to do, I feel the effects of it, and move on with my life. I find them more recreational or "I can whenever I want" type things. Not anywhere close to my first choice, but I can't say they don't at least relieve some stress, which doesn't feel all that bad on an odd day. The lungs can take the toll of one smoke a week or month, but to have them regularly would be brutal.

Yeah, you have 'Walgreens', 'Rite Aid', etc., pharmacies who are still going to sell cigarettes.

I wonder if those other pharmacies will follow suit. They probably won't, but good on CVS.

tRIUNE :

I doubt it. The little business CVS got will now go elsewhere. Walgreen's might be the next stop along the road for the guy that wants them. And a Walgreen's is always the next stop... those things are freakin everywhere...