By selling cancer causing products, CVS would be creating their own market. I applaud them. We have seen the pharmaceutical industry take strides in promoting health care.
It was Walgreens that moved their employees to a private health care exchange.
But, this is huge. I'll be visiting CVS more often now.
2/05/2014 @ 7:00AM
Andrew Harper
Forbes Staff
CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the United States, (click here) will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all of its 7,600 stores by October 1, its parent company CVS Caremark CVS +0.49% announced this morning. It is the first time any retailer has ever dropped this deadly cash cow, and it is part of a major shift in direction for the drugstore giant.
“We’ve got 26,000 pharmacists and nurse practitioners who are helping millions of patients each and every day,” said Larry Merlo, the chief executive of CVS Caremark. “They manage conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes — all conditions that are worsened by smoking. We’ve come to the decision that cigarettes have no place in an environment where healthcare is being delivered.”...
It was Walgreens that moved their employees to a private health care exchange.
But, this is huge. I'll be visiting CVS more often now.
2/05/2014 @ 7:00AM
Andrew Harper
Forbes Staff
CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the United States, (click here) will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all of its 7,600 stores by October 1, its parent company CVS Caremark CVS +0.49% announced this morning. It is the first time any retailer has ever dropped this deadly cash cow, and it is part of a major shift in direction for the drugstore giant.
“We’ve got 26,000 pharmacists and nurse practitioners who are helping millions of patients each and every day,” said Larry Merlo, the chief executive of CVS Caremark. “They manage conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes — all conditions that are worsened by smoking. We’ve come to the decision that cigarettes have no place in an environment where healthcare is being delivered.”...
