Businesses
huff, puff over de Blasio-backed tobacco price hike
New York Daily News - April 27, 2017
The
City Council debated a sweeping package supported by Mayor de Blasio
that aims to cut the number of smokers in the city by 160,000 - including
measures to hike the minimum price to $13 from $10.50, and to cap the
number of stores that can sell tobacco at half the current level in
each neighborhood, barring any new licenses until the cap is reached.
… Other bills would ban pharmacies like Duane Reade and Rite Aid
from selling tobacco, slap a 10% tax on products like cigars and chewing
tobacco and set ...
CVS
Health dedicates $10M to expand tobacco-free effort
Retail Dive - March 14, 2017
CVS Health dedicates $10M to expand tobacco-free effort ... $50 million
effort, launched in 2016, aims to help deliver the nation's first tobacco-free
generation.
CVS
Health Takes Next Step in Five-Year Commitment to Deliver ...
Justmeans - March 14, 2017
"Tobacco continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease
and death in ... yet 2,100 youth and young adults still become daily
cigarette smokers," said ... including the growing availability
of candy-flavored e-cigarettes and cigars, and ...
Study:
CVS Health's tobacco halt reduces overall cigarette purchasing
Retail Dive - February 17, 2017
Since
CVS stopped selling tobacco products in 2014, Americans are now less
likely to buy cigarettes, with CVS shoppers in particular 38% less likely
to buy cigarettes anywhere, according to a study conducted by CVS researchers
recently published in the American Journal of Public Health. …
CVS
Health Research Institute study emphasizes the role a private retailer
can play in restricting access to tobacco
EPR Retail News (press release) - February 17, 2017
… While the Company's decision reduced cigarette purchases across
all retail ... at CVS Pharmacy were 38 percent more likely to stop buying
cigarettes, and those ...
CVS
Health Research Institute Study Confirms that the Company's ...
Military Technologies - February 16, 2017
Following CVS Health's decision to exit tobacco in 2014, the company
has extended its commitment to helping people lead tobacco-free lives
through increased ...
Shareholder
Resolution Asks Walgreens To Review Tobacco Sales
Triple Pundit - September 1, 2016
Is
it ethical and moral for a retail pharmacy company to sell tobacco products?
Not if you ask Walgreens shareholders and members of the Interfaith
Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). They recently filed a shareholder
resolution requesting that Walgreens’ board of directors review
the risks of tobacco sales in the company’s pharmacies. The resolution
is expected to appear on the ballot at the company’s annual meeting
on Jan. 26, 2017. ...
How
CVS continues to take on tobacco
Pharmacy Today - July 21, 2016
CVS Health was the first national pharmacy chain to ban cigarette sales
in 2014, ... educational institutions; and a 3% decline in the national
youth smoking rate," ...
CVS
Health Foundation Announces Second Round of Grants in ...
3BL Media (press release) - March 16, 2016
The new grants are part of Be The First, CVS Health's $50 million, five-year
initiative to help deliver the nation's first tobacco-free generation,
and extend the ...
Fortune
No, Costco Isn't Going to Stop Selling Cigarettes
Fortune Magazine - March 15, 2016
the company is not planning a CVS Health CVS 0.16% style tobacco exit.
"We're not phasing out of tobacco," Bob Nelson, Costco's vice-president
of financial planning and investor relations told Fortune in an interview.
"There's no grand phase-out plan.
Why
Is Costco Extinguishing Cigarettes?
Convenience Store/Petroleum (CSPNet) - March 15, 2016
"Tobacco is a very low-margin business, tends to have higher theft
and is labor intensive in some cases (due to local municipality regulations);
further, we felt we could better use the space to merchandise other
items," a company spokesperson told the…
Letter:
Banning tobacco sales in pharmacies is wise
Buffalo News - March 15, 2016
Pharmacies are a trusted part of our health system and it makes sense
for pharmacies to help people quit smoking rather than serve as a spot
to promote starting ...
Poloncarz:
A better Erie County is within our grasp [AUDIO]
WBFO - March 11, 2016
A ban on tobacco and e-cigarette products at pharmacies, increased funding
for the countys anti-drug task force, a new planning board and a committee
to improve Erie County Community College, fair housing policies, changes
to hiring practices, and a new county planning board were among them.
But the forward-thinking plans were quickly framed by concerns over
cost. Hes got a lot of proposals that are going to cost taxpayers a
lot of money and at this point I dont know how were going to pay for
it, said Erie County Legislature Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo.
To
sell or not to sell tobacco: Who should decide?
ModernMedicine - March 10, 2016
A New York county executives plan to ban pharmacy retailers from selling
cigarettes and other tobacco products is garnering mixed reaction from
pharmacists.
CVS
to Pour $50 Million Into New Anti-Smoking Efforts
Fortune - March 10, 2016
CVS Health is taking it to the tobacco industry again. The company said
on Thursday it will fund a new $50 million multi-year anti-smoking campaign,
its latest effort to bolster its image as a healthcare-first company.
But some healthcare advocates fear that the rise of e-cigarettes, seen
by some as potential gateway to smoking, and other factors could send
rates back up. CVS and its philanthropic arm, the CVS Health Foundation,
will provide funding for programs led by the American Academy of Pediatrics,
the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and educational publisher Scholastic,
as well as the American Cancer Society and the National Urban League.
CVS itself will continue to offer smoking cessation products and tobacco-education
services in its stores. …
CVS
aims for tobacco-free generation with $50 million pledge
Winston-Salem Journal - March 10, 2016
CVS Health continues to put its money where its advocacy is on tobacco-prevention
initiatives. The pharmacy chain said Thursday that it will spend $50
million over five years on the Be The First initiative, whose goal is
establishing the first tobacco-free generation in U.S. history. In September
2014, CVS stopped selling tobacco products in its more than 7,800 stores.
CVS said it is teaming up with several anti-tobacco advocacy groups,
such as Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and American Cancer Society,
as well as Scholastic Inc. and the National Urban League. Brad Rodu,
a professor of medicine at the University of Louisville, said that health
professionals and tobacco-policy experts universally agree that children
must be prevented from using illicit substances. However, Rodu said,
smokers are ill-served by CVS refusal to sell life-saving cigarette
substitutes, such as smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes. ...
EDITORIAL:
Sale of tobacco products is incompatible with the healthful goal of
pharmacies
Buffalo News - March 9, 2016
The effort in Erie County to ban stores with pharmacies from selling
cigarettes and e-cigarettes would close the "disconnect" that
allows stores dedicated to health to sell a product that damages health.
Along the way, it might also save some taxpayer ...
Poloncarz
wants pharmacy retailers banned from selling tobacco products
Buffalo News - March 6, 2016
County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz wants Erie County to be the first
county in New York State to ban pharmacy retailers from selling cigarettes
and e-cigarettes. The sale of cigarettes is incompatible with what pharmacies
are supposed to do, which is help individuals deal with illnesses and
diseases, Poloncarz said Friday.
Bill
to raise smoking age in Massachusetts advances
Wicked Local - March 5, 2016
The Massachusetts smoking age would rise to 21 and pharmacies would
be banned from selling cigarettes and other tobacco products under a
bill recommended Thursday by the Joint Committee on Public Health. The
bill, intended to curb youth tobacco use and nicotine addiction, also
includes electronic cigarettes and "other similar products that
rely on vaporization or aerosolization" in the definition of tobacco
products that cannot be used in public places or sold to minors. …
Poloncarz
wants pharmacy retailers banned from selling tobacco products
Buffalo News - March 4, 2016
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz wants to make it illegal for pharmacies
as well as any retailers that contain pharmacies to sell tobacco and
e-cigarette products. Such a ban would affect a major swath of businesses,
from family-owned pharmacies to big-box giant retailers like Walmart.
County Legislator Peter Savage, D-Buffalo, will sponsor Poloncarzs proposal
in the Erie County Legislature.
Here's
what consumers think about CVS' ban on tobacco products
Chain Store Age - February 20, 2016
Here's what consumers think about CVS' ban on tobacco products ... good,
saying that, despite them being harder to buy, I want to quit smoking
and this helps.
V2
Surveys Smokers on CVS's Exit from Tobacco
NACS Online - February 19, 2016
A new survey by e-cigarette and vaporizer company V2 examines the impact
of CVSs decision to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products.
The survey focused on several aspects of the CVS decision, which was
implemented in the fall of 2014, including smokers reactions, how their
lives have changed since and substitute points of purchase. The survey
found that 33% disagreed with the decision by the drugstore chain to
stop selling tobacco products, while 24% agreed. The majority group
(43%), however, said they were neutral about the change. When asked
to identify where they are buying cigarettes now that CVS has stopped
selling tobacco products, gas stations were the No. 1 choice. Walmart
and Walgreens tied at second, while third was a two-way tie between
7-Eleven and a local store (not part of a chain). The top-five was rounded
out with dollar stores and Rite Aid. When asked if CVS should offer
electronic cigarettes and vaporizers as a like-for-like alternative
to traditional combustible cigarettes, the majority (51%) said that
they should. 20% were undecided, and 28% said no.
CVS:
Right Prescription for a Higher Stock Price
Barron's - February 9, 2016
But Barron's has argued that CVS' decision to halt tobacco sales made
sense. Since CVS reported its first tobacco-free quarter, shares are
up more than 15%, ...
Public
health advocates, retailers clash on tobacco bill
Statesman Journal - February 2, 2016
The City of Salem considers banning smoking on city-owned properties.
... Public health advocates and tobacco retailers clashed Tuesday at
the Oregon State ... would require tobacco and e-cigarette product retailers
to be licensed by the state. ... pharmacies from selling tobacco products
and to restrict tobacco sales within ...
Walgreens
is not ready to kick its cigarette habit
RetailWire - January 28, 2016
While cigarette sales may seem at odds with Walgreens' "Happy &
Healthy" ... The division's pharmacy sales were up 6.7 percent
overall and 9.3 percent on a ...
CVS
Health, DoSomething team up for stop-smoking campaign
Pharmacy Today, American Pharmacists Association - January 11, 2016
CVS Health and DoSomething.org, one of the largest organizations for
young people and social change, have joined together for a smoking-cessation
campaign. The effort, called Quitters Always Win, calls on young people
to create heartfelt, handmade cards to encourage friends and family
to stop smoking as a resolution for 2016. As part of the initiative,
hip-hop duo Kalin and Myles recorded a public service announcement to
encourage their fan base and young people around the nation to support
the campaign.
Hate
San Francisco's Proliferation Of Walgreens? Blame Willie Brown
SFist - December 21, 2015
... then-mayor Newsom's proposal to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies
back in 2008. ... This certainly isn't the first time Brown has beat
the cigarette drum - back in ... is more money to be made selling hot
cigarettes than there is selling dope.
7
ways CVS is driving growth in its stores
Chain Store Age - December 16, 2015
"CVS/pharmacy is combating this by driving larger baskets and more
... Even after exiting tobacco, CVS' average basket size across the
front-end is up 2%. ... loss of some $2 billion in annual revenues from
its decision to quit the cigarette business. ... In those remodeled
stores, sales of health items are up 1.9% and sales of ...
FIP
Publishes Guide to Help Pharmacists Establish Tobacco-Free ...
Pharmacy Times - December 16, 2015
The briefing document,"Establishing tobacco-free communities: A
practical guide for pharmacists", gives a number of examples from
around the world, ...
CVS
Health and Target Announce Completed Acquisition of Target's ...
Pharmacy Times - December 16, 2015
In addition, a CVS/pharmacy will be included in all new Target stores
that offer ... model and our scale to drive incremental sales volume
and operating profit for ...
Marin
Voice: City councils need to ban tobacco from local pharmacies
Marin Independent Journal - December 2, 2015
The Marin County Pharmacists Association and the Smoke-Free Marin Coalition
are in the midst of a campaign to keep tobacco out of pharmacies. Seventy-five
...
Editorial:
Pharmacies continue to sell cigarettes
Plattsburgh Press Republican - November 15, 2015
An item in our weekly Lookback last Monday reminded us of a stiff battle
a quarter century ago that is still being waged today: tobacco sales
by pharmacies.
Letter:
Tobacco-free pharmacies for our future
The Journal News | LoHud.com - November 4, 2015
In 2014, CVS made the decision to stop selling tobacco products in its
7,700 stores. They called it the "right decision" and I wholeheartedly
agree. Reducing the ...
CVS
Sales Once Again Hurt By Decision To Pull Tobacco Products ...
Business 2 Community - October 31, 2015
CVS Caremark reported on Friday that its general merchandise sales fell
in the ... a result of its decision to pull cigarettes and other tobacco
products from its shelves. ... The pharmacy giant officially stopped
selling tobacco and tobacco-related ...
New
Bill May Ban Tobacco Sales in Philly Drug Stores, Drug Rehab ...
Free Press Release Center (press release) - October 18, 2015
A new bill introduced to Philadelphia city council may remove cigarettes
from the shelves of stories which feature pharmacies, ...
Bill
would ban cigarette sales in drug stores
The Philadelphia Tribune - October 13, 2015
Local drugstores will be soon be barred from selling tobacco and smoking
... Nutter Administration also successfully passed ordinances that banned
smoking in ...
Mayor
Nutter: Ban tobacco from all stores with pharmacies
Philly.com - October 9, 2015
That would include drug stores and grocery stores with pharmacies. ...
If the legislation is approved, the sale of tobacco products would also
be banned at ...
Philadelphia
measure would ban tobacco from all stores with ...
Pharmacy Today, American Pharmacists Association, pharmacist.com - October
9, 2015
In Philadelphia, a proposed measure would prohibit the sale of tobacco
products ... tobacco at pharmacies, hospital gift shops, and grocery
stores with pharmacies. "The goal here is to ultimately reduce
cigarette use in the city," McDonald said.
Buying
Smokes In A Drug Store Would Be Banned Under Bill ...
CBS Local - October 8, 2015
...cigarettes, City Council, Pat Loeb ... PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A bill
introduced into Philadelphia City Council would ban cigarette sales
at all the drug stores in the city ... The bill would prohibit the sale
of any tobacco product or e-cigarette at any ... include drug stores,
hospital gift shops, even grocery stores with pharmacies.
Tobacco
sales could be barred to those under 21 in Easton
Wicked Local Easton - September 25, 2015
Tobacco sales could be barred to those under 21 in Easton ... The town
has also banned tobacco and other nicotine products from being sold
in pharmacies, the sale of single cigarettes, cigarette vending machines
and ... He compared it to the difficulty in passing a workplace and
restaurant smoking ban across the state ...
Survey
shows most NH pharmacies don't sell tobacco products
The Union Leader - September 24, 2015
Survey shows most NH pharmacies don't sell tobacco products. Source:
... The telephone survey - conducted in August - polled 33 independent
pharmacies.
Why
Do Drug Stores Sell Cigarettes? -- 'The Why'
American Live Wire - September 16, 2015
We thought "The Menthol" was just a kind of cigarette, mmmkay?)
... They've been pushing for "the removal of tobacco from pharmacies
due to the health risks ... Back in 1635 France actually made it a law
that tobacco sales would be limited ...
What
CVS can teach you about kicking the traditional sales model habit
http://www.bizjournals.com/ - September 15, 2015
"Kicking the habit" is most often associated with quitting
smoking, and we'll get to that topic in just a moment. Just as addictive
and dangerous to many a company's long-term health, though, is the …
All
Pharmacies Should Stop Tobacco Sales, Viewpoint Says
Pharmacy Times - September 12, 2015
On the heels of CVS Healths 1-year anniversary of stopping tobacco sales,
a viewpoint provides a detailed history of the long, cozy relationship
between drugstore chains and tobacco companies. While all leading drugstore
chains have traditionally sold tobacco products, CVS has made several
efforts to distance itself from this practice, authors David Tuller,
DrPH, and Lisa Bero, PhD, noted. Beyond stopping the sale of tobacco
products and rebranding itself as CVS Health, the pharmacy giant announced
in July 2015 that it would leave the US Chamber of Commerce because
of the organizations global efforts to block antismoking laws, such
as putting taxes on cigarettes in the Philippines. Before CVSs September
2014 decision to stop tobacco sales, leading drugstore chains not only
sold cigarettes, but also collaborated with tobacco companies, Drs.
Tuller and Bero noted. Their review of memos, letters, and reports from
the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library uncovered evidence of tobacco companies
and pharmacies working together to mold public attitudes toward smoking
and fight regulatory efforts.
CVS
Health marks first anniversary of tobacco removal
Daily Journal Online - September 10, 2015
The company also announced it is renewing its commitment to creating
a tobacco-free generation through a joint initiative between CVS Health,
its Foundation ...
Tobacco-free
retailers aid in fight against smoking
Wausau Daily Herald - September 9, 2015
EDITOR: CVS pharmacies have not looked back since pulling tobacco products
from their shelves a year ago this month. A study found this decision
caused ...
In
1965, 45 Percent of Americans Smoke, Today It's Only 15 Percent
Smithsonian - September 4, 2015
Taxes. Smoking bans. Strong warnings on cigarette packages. PSAs. It
seems that public health officials and lawmakers have tried every trick
in the book to stop ... The new data shows that just 15.2 percent of
Americans smoke, down from 16.8 percent in 2014. The number has fallen
dramatically since 1997, when just under 25 percent of Americans smoked.
And Thompson writes that its especially dramatic when you consider that
in 1965, a whopping 45 percent of Americans were smokers.
CVS:
Cigarette ban reduced smoking
RetailWire - September 4, 2015
Marking the first anniversary of ending tobacco sales at its stores,
CVS issued a study indicating that its decision led to a measurable
decrease in the number of cigarette purchases across all retailers.
CVS
cigarette ban contributes to reduced smoking
Latinos Health - September 4, 2015
In an official statement, CVS President and CEO Larry Merlo said: "Ending
the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is simply
the right thing ...
CVS
decision to stop selling cigarettes caused a drop in smoking rate in
13 states of US
Benchmark Reporter - September 4, 2015
A decline in cigarette sales has been noted across all retailers found
in 13 states ... CVS has 15 percent of pharmacy market in the 13 states
and the sales were ...
A
year later, CVS says stopping tobacco sales made a big difference
PPP Focus.com - September 3, 2015
A list maintained by the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation shows
that only North Dakota, New Jersey, and Utah have laws that restrict
the usage of ...
A
year later, CVS says stopping tobacco sales made a big difference
USA Today - September 3, 2015
The decision to stop tobacco sales at all of its drugstores a year ago
caused people to buy 1% fewer packs of cigarettes in 13 states, CVS
Health says in a new study out Thursday. The new study compared total
sales of tobacco products at all types of st
Health
Buzz: CVS Cigarette Ban Burns Tobacco Sales
U.S. News & World Report - September 3, 2015
New data show a drop in cigarette purchases overall since the ban took
... sell their smoking-cessation nicotine patches which, since the ban,
have increased in ...
CVS
Quit Selling Cigarettes, but It's Found a Patch for Sales
The Fiscal Times - August 5, 2015
CVS executives knew that some of their sales would go up in smoke when
they decided last year to stop selling cigarettes. The press release
announcing that all 7,600 CVS stores nationwide would stop selling all
tobacco products acknowledged that sales would take a hit. Still, the
company said, This is the right thing to do. The costs of the decision
are now becoming clear. CVS Healths general merchandise sales slumped
7.8 percent last quarter on a same-store basis, the company said Tuesday.
The company claims non-pharmacy sales would have stayed the same if
tobacco sales and the other products cigarette buyers added to their
baskets were removed from sales figures for the same quarter in 2014.
How
Tobacco-Free CVS Is Coping
Newser - August 5, 2015
(Newser) CVS banned cigarettes from its stores last fall and last month
showed it's sticking ... CVS blames its cigarette ban for a drop in
out of pharmacy sales.
CVS
earnings rise despite no tobacco fix
Naples Herald - August 4, 2015
Pricey specialty drugs helped CVS Health cope with tobacco withdrawal
to top analyst expectations in the second quarter. The nations second-largest
drugstore chain said Tuesday that revenue from its biggest business,
the pharmacy benefits management segment, jumped 12 percent to more
than $24 billion, spurred in part by specialty drugs.
CVS
Health Gives Soft Outlook Despite Strong Pharmacy Sales
Wall Street Journal - August 4, 2015
... drugs and to processing more claims through its pharmacy benefits
business. ... and a large drop in sales after last year's decision to
stop all tobacco sales.
What
corporate America can learn from CVS Health's anti-tobacco campaign
Fortune - August 3, 2015
The company's transformation is a reminder that sometimes big dogs can
learn new tricks. At this years Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in
Aspen, Helena Foulkes, executive vice president of drugstore chain CVS
Health CVS 0.21% , shared an insiders perspective on the company's decision
to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in its 7,800 stores.
When CVS announced the decision in 2014, it was an unprecedented move.
It was also potentially a costly one since $2 billion of the company's
annual revenue came from tobacco products.
Smoking
age increased
Woburn Daily Times - August 1, 2015
WILMINGTON Its official. The age to purchase cigarettes has been raised
to 21 in Wilmington. In an effort to stem the flow of smoking related
illnesses, the Wilmington Board of Health held a meeting back in April
with Sarah McColgan from the Massachusetts Health Officers Association
and liaison to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program. After a lengthy
discussion, it was decided that the Board would work on adding 3 potential
amendments to the tobacco regulations. Raising the minimum age to purchase
nicotine delivery products to 21 and banning sales of flavored tobacco
products in retail convenience stores and banning the sale of nicotine
delivery products in healthcare institutions, basically, pharmacies.
Tobacco
sales ban in pharmacies formally approved
BenitoLink - June 16, 2015
Hollister City Council votes 4-1 to cease the issuance or re-issuance
of tobacco retail licenses, which eventually will snuff out tobacco
products in Hollister pharmacies
CVS
to Buy, Rebrand and Run Target's Pharmacies, Clinics
AdAge.com - June 15, 2015
CVS, which already has 7,800 drugstores, will acquire Target's more
than 1,660 pharmacies across 47 states, renaming them as CVS/pharmacy,
the companies said today in a statement. All new Targetstores with pharmacy
services will include a CVS/pharmacy. The move comes after CVS stopped
selling tobacco products in October, and began leaning more on pharmacy
services, which brought in 60% of sales last year, and in-store clinics
to make up for the loss of revenue.
UPDATED:
Hollister to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies
Benitolink: San Benito County News - June 1, 2015
The report notes that 78 percent of independently-owned pharmacies in
the state have become tobacco free, though tobacco products are still
sold in 94 percent ...
Was
CVS' Cigarettes Decision the Right One?
WFMY News 2 - June 1, 2015
If you take out tobacco's impact on results, then front-end sales would
have grown by about 2% ... Since CVS Health's pharmacy benefit management,
or PBM, business ... it's far more important to the broader picture
than the cigarette business.
Hollister
seeks to prohibit tobacco sales in pharmacies
Benitolink: San Benito County News - May 31, 2015
The Hollister City Council on Monday, June 1 will consider amending
municipal code to curtail the issuance or reissuance of tobacco retail
licenses to local pharmacies, effectively snuffing out tobacco sales
at the four Hollister pharmacies that have not already independently
decided to stop selling those products.
Was
CVS' cigarettes decision the right one?
USA TODAY - May 24, 2015
Last fall, CVS Health Corp (CVS) made national news when it announced
that it would no longer sell cigarettes and other tobacco products in
its 7,850 stores. CVS Health's decision to opt out of these products
cost it $2 billion in annual sales, but does that mean CVS Health's
decision was the wrong one? Let's take a closer look.
Was
CVS' Cigarettes Decision the Right One?
Motley Fool - May 22, 2015
In the first quarter, same-store sales in its back-of-store pharmacies
grew 4.2% ... Exiting the cigarettes business came at a price, but a
good argument can be ...
Tobacco
control rules get stricter in Danvers
The Daily News of Newburyport - May 22, 2015
DANVERS The Board of Health has raised the minimum age to buy cigarettes,
e-cigarettes and other tobacco products in town from 18 to 21. They
have also banned sales at health care and education institutions and
retailers with pharmacies like Walgreens.
Medicine
Shoppe and Medicap Pharmacy Franchises Ban Tobacco Sales
NACS Online - May 13, 2015
DUBLIN, Ohio Cardinal Health's independent franchises Medicine Shoppe
and Medicap Pharmacy announced plans to ban the sale of tobacco products
from its stores. Nearly all Medicine Shoppe and Medicap Pharmacy franchises
have committed to not sell tobacco and tobacco-related products.
Quality
Foods IGA of Schofield No Longer Selling Tobacco
WSAW - April 28, 2015
Quality Foods IGA of Schofield says they will no longer be selling products
containing tobacco. In a post on their facebook page the store says
they,"want to fully support the Tobacco-Free Kids Campaign."
The store follows in the footsteps of retailers such as Whole Foods
and CVS Pharmacy.
CVS
takes tobacco off the shelves, reports record sales. Coincidence?
2degrees - April 24, 2015
CVS Health in the US managed record sales in 2014 increasing net revenues
by 9.9% to $139.4bn despite a major rebrand that involved taking lucrative
tobacco products off the shelves.
Proposed
tobacco ban would protect families
Albany Times Union (blog) - April 19, 2015
Albany County Executive Dan McCoy's initiative to ban tobacco product
displays in pharmacies would be a great contribution to the health of
people in Albany ...
Cigarette
ban at pharmacies won't work
Valley Breeze - April 14, 2015
Results: more taxes on nonsmokers. I am sure that Rep. Katherine Kazarian's
lips have never held a cigarette. In a way, that's too bad. Had she
ever smoked, ...
OPINION:
Is a ban on tobacco a good thing?
Kansas State Collegian - April 10, 2015
In the fall of 2014, pharmacy chain previously called CVS Caremark stopped
selling tobacco products, citing reasons that the sale of tobacco ran
against its [sic] image as a health care provider. The company re-branded
itself corporately as CVS Health and launched a smoking-cessation campaign.
I also have questions regarding electronic cigarettes. CVS does not
currently sell e-cigs or the e-juice that fills them. These products
contain no tobacco, though ...
Some
independent RI pharmacies oppose tobacco ban
ModernMedicine - April 8, 2015
... Last year, he said, his pharmacy had $1.2 million in cigarette sales.
"Tobacco and liquor go hand in hand. If someone's not going to
buy cigarettes and alcohol, ...
Stolen
Valor, Sex Trafficking, and Tobacco at Pharmacies: This Week at the
State House
GoLocalProv.com - April 7, 2015
Sosnowski's bill on banning smoking in casinos was heard before the
Senate Committee on Special Legislation and Veterans' Affairs. / Kazarian's
bill was heard before the House Committee on Corporations. The bill
would prohibit any business with a pharmacy
Albany
County to push ban on pharmacy cigarette displays
Albany Times Union - April 3, 2015
BETHLEHEM County Executive Dan McCoy on Friday unveiled legislation
that would ban the display of tobacco products in retail stores that
contain pharmacies a measure he said major retailers have already voluntarily
agreed to comply with. The law, if passed by the County Legislature,
would make Albany County the first in the state with such a ban, McCoy
said, and comes six months after he vetoed a law that would have outright
banned the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies.
Albany
County Executive to announce new public health legislation
NEWS10 ABC - April 3, 2015
In 2014, McCoy signed an Executive Order banning the use of e-cigarettes
on county property, and the Albany County Department of Mental Health
has partnered with other organizations to help clients quit smoking.The
next initiative to be launched will ensure that young people are not
exposed to tobacco products at retail stores.
Retailers
pressured to stop selling tobacco
Supermarket News - April 2, 2015
When it comes to tobacco sales, CVS is on the Wall of Fame, while Walgreens
is on the Wall of Shame. That's according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids, ...
Independent
pharmacies oppose RI bill banning tobacco sales Poll
The Providence Journal - March 31, 2015
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A bill that would ban pharmacies statewide from selling
... "I understand the health consequences of smoking, but that's
a personal ...
Why
not suspend store's alcohol sales, too? Letter
Reno Gazette Journal - April 1, 2015
I am comforted that CVS Pharmacy is widely advertising via television
that they no longer sell tobacco products. These items were always behind
the counter ...
March
6: New group forms: Monterey County Collaborates
The Salinas Californian - March 6, 2015
The
Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Monterey County, Monterey County Traffic
Safety Coalition and Sunrise House Prevention recently merged to create
Monterey County Collaborates. Monterey County Collaborates envisions
a Monterey County where youth are safe and become leaders that facilitate
healthy choices. Monterey County Collaborates congratulates the California
State Board of Pharmacy members on the adoption of a policy statement
regarding tobacco sales at pharmacies. The statement reads: "The
California State Board of Pharmacy recognizes that pharmacists are health
care providers and pharmacies are in the business of improving customer
health; therefore the board recommends that pharmacies and chain stores
that include pharmacies eliminate the sale of tobacco, e-cigarettes
and tobacco products, as these products are known to cause cancer, heart
disease, lung disease and other health problems." …
CVS
Health Chief Medical Officer to Address National Business Group on Health
on Value of Pharmacy Care in Evolving Health Care System
MarketWatch - March 6, 2015
WOONSOCKET, R.I., March 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Troyen A. Brennan,
M.D., M.P.H., Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of
CVS Health CVS, -1.17% will speak before the National Business Group
on Health in Washington, D.C. today. Brennan will outline ways pharmacy
care can play a critical role in addressing health care cost and quality
as the overall health care system faces increased stress. After making
CVS/pharmacy the first national pharmacy chain to stop selling tobacco
in support of the health and well-being of its patients and customers,
CVS Health is moving aggressively to provide innovative new tools that
can assist patients, providers and health plans improve medication adherence
and ultimately improve health. …
CVS
Did the Right Thing in Stopping Tobacco Sales
Pharmacy Times - February 6, 2015
A
report released by CVS Health on the 1-year anniversary of its decision
to stop tobacco sales suggests that doing the right thing instead of
the expedient thing makes good business sense.
The pharmacy profession has been encouraging the removal of tobacco
products from shelves for a long time, but most pharmacy corporations
have rationalized that doing so would not stop customers from buying
cigarettes, so there is little reason to give up that revenue stream.
CVS
Health’s report indicates that consumers want to improve their
health, and when they see a consistent and clear message, they respond.
This report also means that many patients have seen their lives and
health improve through a comprehensive approach to smoking cessation,
which starts with removing tobacco from the pharmacy...
CVS
Health invests $1 million in tobacco cessation programs
Philadelphia (PA) Tribune - December 2, 2014
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is one of 28 organizations whose
smoking cessation program will be supported by the CVS grants.
ShopRite
to stop selling tobacco products
South Jersey Local News - December 2, 2014
"We are happy to join other retailers in becoming part of the public
health solution - making the next generation tobacco-free," says
Renee whose educational ...
Were
Cigarettes Injurious For CVS's Health? (CVS)
Seeking Alpha - November 27, 2014
The company has moved away from tobacco in a bid to improve its image.
Sales have grown despite moving away from tobacco which was a $2 billion
source of revenue.
Group
asks Hy-Vee to help kick the habit
Muscatine Journal - November 21, 2014
DES MOINES, Iowa - A statewide group of health professionals and tobacco
opponents used Thursdays Great American Smokeout observance to launch
a campaign calling on Hy-Vee to end the sale of tobacco products, including
e-cigarettes, at any of its stores that have a pharmacy or health clinic
on its premises.
CVS
Health and its Foundation Commit More Than $1 Million in ...
CSRwire.com (press release) - November 20, 2014
The grants will be distributed to leading health care and community
partners working to promote tobacco-free communities, programs that
help people kick the ...
A
Check-Up On The Earnings Of CVS Health (CVS)
Seeking Alpha - November 12, 2014
CVS Health reported strong sales and adjusted earnings per share growth
for ... Let's see how this pharmacy giant did during the quarter, and
what investors have to ... basis points higher if tobacco sales in the
2013 quarter were not included…
Independent
Pharmacies Fight to Bring a Tobacco-free Society
PR Web (press release) - November 12, 2014
Like many independent pharmacies across the country, Rx Care Pharmacy
has been actively involved in creating a tobacco-free society and studies
have ...
Regulators
Asked To Probe CVS' Tobacco-Free Network ($$)
Law360 - November 10, 2014
...it's worried the pharmacy's stated desire to wean customers off cigarettes
is a "smokescreen" to impose higher costs on those who fill
prescriptions at rival pharmacies. The American Antitrust Institute
requested the U.S. Federal Trade Commission …
Is
CVS Health's "Tobacco-Tax" Brilliant or Stupid?
Nasdaq - November 9, 2014
Supporters are heralding CVS Health 's decision to create narrow pharmacy
networks ... Sure, eliminating tobacco sales at CVS Health stores means
that the ... for smoking-related diseases like COPD purchased cigarettes
at the same time.
Quitting
cigarettes not so easy for CVS rivals
Buffalo News - November 9, 2014
Other groups, such as the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said having
cigarettes available causes shoppers to have cravings and make impulse
purchases.
Quitting
tobacco isn't easy for cigarette-selling CVS rivals
Worcester (MA) Telegram & Gazette - November 5, 2014
Its rivals, which don't have pharmacy benefit management units, still
need tobacco, said Jeff Jonas, a portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds.
"They're just not performing as well, so they kind of need those
sales," Jonas said. "Rite Aid needs it because of
Why
Don't Other Drug Stores Stop Selling Cigarettes Like CVS ...
American Live Wire - November 5, 2014
CVS still reportedly made money last quarter because of its "pharmacy
... Jeff Jonas, "(t)hey're just not performing as well, so they
. . . need those sales. ... They do not as of yet however have a solid
plan to cease selling tobacco. ... She would not, however, specifically
answer the question regarding the sale of cigarettes.
CVS
Health Pharmacy Business Overcomes Loss Of Tobacco Sales
Forbes - November 4, 2014
...generating better than expected sales from new business across all
lines including drugstores, retail clinics and its pharmacy benefit
management company. Though the loss of tobacco sales hurt sales in the
front of its stores, CVS chief executive ...
CVS's
Growing Drug Business Makes Up for Quitting Tobacco
Business Week/Bloomberg - November 4, 2014
CVS Health Corp. (MDT:US) beat analysts' third-quarter estimates as
prescription drug sales made up for the drop in revenue the company
suffered after it quit selling tobacco products at its retail pharmacies.
Profit excluding one-time items of $1.15 ...
CVS
exec says ending tobacco sales, which meant $1B for drug store chain,
the right thing
Fox Business - October 30, 2014
A top executive of CVS Caremark said Thursday that ending tobacco sales
at CVS drug stores last month was the right thing to do even though
the sales brought in $1 billion in revenue.
Raising
Co-Pays at Cigarette Sellers Boosts CVS Bottom Line
Pharmacy Times - October 29, 2014
... Health decided to discontinue the sale of cigarettes across its
pharmacies, many folks in ... In spite of the loss of millions of dollars
in sales, CVS pulled the plug on this line of ... tobacco products by
coordinating a strategy with the pharmacy benefit ... that raise co-pays
for patients who shop at stores that still sell cigarettes.
City
launches tobacco-free pharmacy network
The Philadelphia Tribune - October 24, 2014
The city of Philadelphia has partnered with CVS Caremark to create the
nations first tobacco-free pharmacy network. The Preferred Health Network,
which will take effect in January, encourages city employees who are
not covered by union-offered health benefits to make use of pharmacies
that do not sell tobacco products. City employees who choose not to
get their prescriptions filled at pharmacies in the network will incur
an additional $15-per-prescription charge that will be added to prescriptions
filled at non-network pharmacies, in addition to any applicable co-payment...
Promoting
the Removal of Tobacco Products From Pharmacies
Pharmacy Times (blog) - October 23, 2014
Although some pharmacies are complaining that it could give CVS an ...
have policies to remove tobacco sales from pharmacies, and now, CVS
has come up ...
Caremark
planning bigger copay at drugstores that sell cigarettes
Chicago Tribune - October 22, 2014
CVS and Target are tobacco-free, but a number of major chains, such
as Deerfield-based Walgreen Co., the nation's largest pharmacy retailer,
are not.
Caremark
to Charge Extra Co-Pay at Pharmacies Selling Cigarettes
Wall Street Journal (blog) - October 20, 2014
Last month, CVS Health purged its 7,700 pharmacies of tobacco products
in a gambit to ... But the move comes with a price - an estimated $2
billion in annual sales will be sacrificed. ... that eliminate the sale
of tobacco products at retail pharmacies in San Francisco and Boston
were .... The Travel Ban and the New Czar.
After
cutting tobacco sales, CVS is now pressuring other pharmacies ...
Washington Post (blog) - October 20, 2014
"For clients who choose a tobacco-free network, plan members would
be provided with a full list of participating pharmacies in advance
of any network change," ...
Campaign
launched, encourages removing tobacco from shelves
WNDU-TV - October 20, 2014
A national campaign is rolling out Monday, to urge retailers to go-tobacco
free to ... It's an effort run by the organization Tobacco-Free Kids,
which advocates that ...
Letter:
Pharmacies, don't sell smokes
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - October 14, 2014
A woman smokes a cigarette during a break from work in downtown Chicago.
... Major pharmacy organizations have discouraged the sale of tobacco
... which ceased tobacco sales several years ago, and I encourage all
pharmacies to cease ...
CVS
And NYC Set The Pace Versus Tobacco
MediaPost Communications - October 10, 2014
To be clear, CVS isn't just being saintly with its cigarette ban. Rather
than the 40% that the convenience store players get, a pharmacy only
makes 2% of its revenue on cigarettes. And what they lose will probably
be made up by changes in how medical services are delivered that support
a new, more clinical role. ...
CVS's
Expensive Cigarette Ban Shows It Puts Brand Before Profit
Entrepreneur - October 7, 2014
CVS's Expensive Cigarette Ban Shows It Puts Brand Before Profit ...
to substantially lower rates of smoking with implications for reducing
tobacco-related deaths.
Living
Your Brand: CVS' Bold Move to Align Behavior With Brand
Forbes - October 6, 2014
In February, CVS Caremark announced that it would stop selling cigarettes
in all of its 7,700 stores and 900 walk-in clinics, effective October
1. The company implemented the change a month ahead of schedule and
changed its name to CVS Health to align its brand and purpose of helping
people on their path to better health.
Keep
tobacco out of pharmacies
Albany Times Union - October 3, 2014
Tobacco is the only product when used as directed is lethal. Legislation
that would eliminate tobacco sales in our pharmacies would ensure that
all pharmacies ...
Water
Cooler: Ban tobacco sales in pharmacies?
Hollister Free Lance - October 2, 2014
Would a location selling so-called medical marijuana be banned from
selling tobacco products? Enough ... I support pharmacies which ban
sales of tobacco.
CVS
Health Finds Benefit in Banning Cigarettes from Pharmacies
Pharmacy Times - October 2, 2014
CVS Health surprised the health care community last month when it became
the first and only national pharmacy chain to discontinue sales of tobacco
...
How
CVS can really be a leader in health
Stillwater Gazette - September 26, 2014
The second-largest drug store chain in the country has announced it
will no longer sell cigarettes. Changing its corporate name to CVS Health,
the company had previously vowed it was going to discontinue tobacco
products in all of its 7,600 stores by Oct. 1 but, like ripping off
a Band-Aid, they instead did it quickly, when we werent expecting it.
CVS
ban on tobacco sales sets right tone for drumbeat of change
Lexington Herald Leader - September 26, 2014
CVS Health expects to lose $2 billion a year in sales but it's doing
the right thing. ... Here's hoping the drumbeat that CVS Health started
in the pharmacy industry ...
Make
pharmacies tobacco-sale free
Albany Times Union (blog) - September 25, 2014
... but Albany County has the opportunity to be the first county in
New York to make all of its pharmacies tobacco-free. Similar bills have
already passed in Boston ...
Taking
tobacco products off pharmacy shelves helps save lives
The Daily Advertiser - September 23, 2014
On behalf of the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living, a program
of the Louisiana Cancer Research Center and administered by the Louisiana
Public ...
CVS
Health smokes safety, clears the air
The Depaulia - September 22, 2014
Each year in the United States, cigarette smoking is responsible for
the deaths of ... It sounds crazy that the second-largest pharmacy chain
in the United States would want ... By cutting out the sale of tobacco
products to promote a more health- ...
CVS
Health CEO to Address National Press Club on Landmark ...
The Providence Journal - September 19, 2014
Merlo also plans to discuss the company's decision to stop selling cigarettes
and the recent announcement it is officially tobacco-free. Along with
the recently ...
CVS
boldly snuffs out tobacco sales at its drugstores
Kansas City Star - September 17, 2014
Walgreens, and its slogan "at the corner of happy and healthy"....would
mean more if Walgreens joined CVS to end tobacco product sales....Maybe
the Missouri legislature will raise the tax from an embarrassing 17
cents a pack to $2 a pack to follow CVS' ...
Cigarettes
don't belong in pharmacies
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal - September 17, 2014
CVS removing tobacco from its shelves is a huge step in improving public
health. ... in the world where tobacco products can be found for sale
in a pharmacy.
Out
of sight, out of mind
Albany Times Union (blog) - September 15, 2014
Our opinion: The veto of a bill to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies offers
a ... ban on the display of cigarettes and tobacco products in retail
stores, period. ... Banning displays is a sensible next step in society's
long battle to blunt the cigarette ...
Editorial:
CVS Shuns Cigarettes
Valley News - September 15, 2014
The move may be little more than a business calculation for the pharmacy
chain. But it is one worth cheering: It makes the sale of cigarettes
less ubiquitous, and it ... CVS' move says a lot about American society's
relationship with tobacco.
CVS
Health: Were Cigarettes Bad for Business?
Wall St. Cheat Sheet - September 14, 2014
According to the CDC, the percentage of U.S. middle and high school
students who use electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, more than doubled
from 2011 to ...
CVS
is gaining cred with consumers
CBS News - September 12, 2014
None of CVS' rival pharmacy chain operators, including Walgreen, Rite
Aid, Wal-Mart (WMT) and Kroger (KR), have followed CVS' lead on tobacco
sales even ...
Thanks,
CVS, for saving lives; Planning commission should ...
The Oakland Press - September 12, 2014
An inflatable cigarette is displayed to announce the drug store CVS'
decision to stop ... The Royal Oak Community Coalition would like to
congratulate CVS/Pharmacy for becoming a national ambassador for health
and wellness. As of September 3, 2014, CVS/Pharmacy officially quit
selling cigarettes and tobacco products, reiterating the notion that
there is no place for tobacco in a setting where health care is delivered.
Letter:
Pharmacies should nix cigarettes, as CVS did
Buffalo News - September 12, 2014
CVS removing tobacco from its shelves is a huge step in improving public
health. Big chain pharmacies, which promote health and wellness, are
contradicting themselves when they sell tobacco products. How frustrating
to be a pharmacist, have a consultation with a patient about his heart
medication, then see that same patient at the front of the store buying
cigarettes.
Whatever
its motive, CVS does the right thing by ending cigarette sales
Salt Lake Tribune - September 11, 2014
The move may be little more than a business calculation for the pharmacy
chain. But it is one worth cheering: It makes the sale of cigarettes
less ubiquitous, and ...
Albany
Co. executive vetoes ban on pharmacy cigarette sales
Oneida Dispatch - September 11, 2014
Instead, County Executive Dan McCoy issued an executive order for a
ban ... I applaud all efforts that reduce the effects of smoking, especially
among the young.
Walgreen:
At the intersection of At the intersection of healthy, happy - and hypocritical
Crain's Chicago Business - September 10, 2014
The announcement by CVS Caremark - now CVS Health - in February that
it would stop selling tobacco sent shockwaves through the public health
and business sectors. Public health advocates cheered the decision,
noting that removing tobacco from health providers' shelves would promote
good health, help smokers to quit and stay quit, and prevent a new generation
of smokers. Many began asking other pharmacy chains if they would follow
suit…..This came as no surprise - either to us at Americans for
Nonsmokers' Rights or to other advocates who had engaged with Walgreen
on this issue previously. ...
LETTER:
FERKOL: CVS Ends Tobacco Sales
New York Times - September 10, 2014
The American Thoracic Society...welcomes CVS's move to stop selling
all tobacco products ...CVS has also decided not to sell electronic
cigarettes. We believe that this decision will also help protect public
health, since the safety of e-cigarettes has
Law
| Williamstown, MA Toughens Tobacco Regulations
The Cigar Authority - September 10, 2014
On that date smoking will be prohibited in bars, and restaurants both
inside and outside. Pharmacies are banned from selling any tobacco product,
and the ban ...
Drug
stores need to stop selling tobacco products
Springfield News-Leader - September 10, 2014
While increases in tobacco taxation, legislation to create smoke-free
public areas and ... Calls for banning tobacco sales in pharmacies also
have come from the ...
No
decision yet on cigarette sales ban in Albany County
WRGB - September 10, 2014
No decision yet on cigarette sales ban in Albany County ... will approve
a bill that would ban cigarette sales in drug stores and retail outlets
with pharmacies.
Ban
tobacco sales in the pharmacies
Albany Times Union (blog) - September 10, 2014
Think of the Clean Indoor Air Act and the smoke-free restaurants that
now protect waitstaff. It's not OK to let the tobacco industry sidle
up next to pharmacies to ...
The
CVS ban on tobacco is useless
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times - September 10, 2014
Smokers and non-smokers agree on one major point: tobacco is extremely
... the health of the nation by banning a major culprit of illness,
but unfortunately, the ...
EDITORIAL:
Other drugstore chains should join CVS in banning sales of tobacco products
Buffalo (NY) News - September 9, 2014
The bottom line is a hard concept to ignore, and the prospect of $2
billion in forfeited sales will cause many other companies to hesitate
or simply refuse. But CVS is facing the future and living up to its
new name. It deserves all the accolades its dec
Walmart
and Walgreens Won't Stop Selling Smokes, But Will The ...
Forbes - September 9, 2014
... from the margins to the mainstream; and some states are banning
the sale of ... experts and even a recent doctor survey have noted -
a retail pharmacy ban on ... the decline has accelerated, largely due
to smoking bans, health concerns, ...
CVS
Stops Sale of Tobacco Products
TheAlternativePress.com - September 8, 2014
LIVINGSTON, NJ - Recently, CVS Caremark announced that CVS Pharmacy
will stop selling cigarettes and all tobacco products at its more than
7,600 stores ...
CVS
Health Looks Healthier After Quitting Tobacco
Investorplace.com - September 8, 2014
2 in the world of pharmacy retailing, but thanks to its decision to
quit selling ... Cigarette sales have also been plummeting for years
for obvious reasons, and ...
Do
drug stores have an ethical obligation to stop selling tobacco products?
Renal and Urology News - September 5, 2014
The CVS pharmacy chain recently announced that it has changed its corporate
name to CVS Health and that it would no longer sell cigarettes or other
tobacco products at its stores. Do drug stores have an ethical obligation
to stop selling tobacco products?
Will
CVS anti-tobacco move make a difference? Your Say
USA TODAY - September 5, 2014
CVS stopped selling tobacco products at its stores Wednesday, saying
those sales conflicted with its health care mission. Letter to the editor:
CVS
stops tobacco sales as pharmacies jockey for edge
Chicago Daily Herald - September 4, 2014
CVS customers around the suburbs Wednesday started seeing promotions
asking, "Ready to quit?" as part of the retailer's new stop-smoking
campaign with the American Lung Association after tobacco products were
completely removed from CVS shelves....
Walgreens
Should Follow CVS, Halt Tobacco Sales, Father Pfleger ...
DNAinfo - September 4, 2014
The Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Church in Auburn Gresham,
applauded pharmacy CVS' "bold move" in yanking cigarettes
from its shelves but called on other retailers including north suburban-based
Walgreen Co. to do the same.
Why
Walgreen Won't Stop Selling Tobacco Like CVS Health
Forbes - September 4, 2014
CVS Health (CVS) rival Walgreen WAG 1.18% (WAG) isnt going to stop
selling cigarettes and other tobacco products anytime soon. Walgreen
certainly has myriad financial reasons to keep selling cigarettes. But
Walgreen isnt using financial excuses as a reason it wont stop selling
cigarettes in its official corporate statement issued following CVS
announcement that all tobacco products were removed from store shelves.
Rather, Walgreen doesnt seem to think retailers are to blame for Americans
wanting to continue to smoke.
FRIEDMAN:
Here's Why CVS' Decision To Stop Selling Cigarettes Makes Perfect Business
Sense
Business Insider - September 4, 2014
New customers pulled in by the clinics are likely to stick around to
fill their prescriptions right at the CVS. And that combination of health
care services has the potential to be much more lucrative for the company
than cigarettes sales. "If [CVS] can
Why
Walgreen Won't Stop Selling Tobacco Like CVS Health
Forbes - September 4, 2014
Rather, Walgreen doesn't seem to think retailers are to blame for Americans
wanting to continue to smoke. But they can be a solution even while
selling tobacco, ...
White
House lauds tobacco-free CVS
The Hill - September 3, 2014
Carney said. "So the president is, like I, a reformed smoker, and
I think he recognizes, like everyone who's quit recognizes, it's not
an easy thing to do, but it's the right thing to do for your own health,
for your family and for the nation's health."
E-Cig
Makers Fuming Over CVS Tobacco Ban
ABC News - September 3, 2014
e-cigarette sellers who had been in talks with CVS to carry vaping products
as far back as February when the company first announced its intentions
to ban tobacco sales. He said he was disappointed the company has elected
to treat e-cigarettes as a tobacco...
CVS
tobacco ban could help dissuade West Virginia smokers
Charleston Gazette - September 3, 2014
can only be good news for the state with the second-highest rate of
smokers in the nation, according to West Virginia health professionals.
Legislator
seeks tobacco sale ban in pharmacies
WRGB - September 3, 2014
It also said it has kicked off a smoking cessation program. ... up to
a 13% drop in people buying tobacco products when similar pharmacy bans
were put in place.
Some
ArkLaTex businesses may benefit from CVS tobacco ban
KSLA-TV Ch. 12 - September 3, 2014
A specialty tobacco shop just around the corner from a CVS store in
Bossier City, saw quite a bit of new customers flow through Wednesday.
Sheila Conrad, assistant manager at the Tobacco House, isn't exactly
sure where the influx has come from, but she...
CVS
Changes Name, Stops Tobacco Sales Early
AP - Associated Press - September 3, 2014
The cigars and cigarettes that used to fill the shelves behind store
cash registers have been replaced with nicotine gum and signs urging
visitors to kick the tobacco habit.
After
quitting tobacco, CVS makes its next health-care moves
The Washington Post - September 3, 2014
For starters, the company said all tobacco sales are ending Wednesday,
about a month earlier than the original Oct. 1 target, and it's launching
a cessation program to help smokers quit. The company is also undergoing
a corporate name change, from CVS ...
CVS
Renames Itself CVS Health as It Ends Sale of Tobacco Products
The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition - September 3, 2014
CVS Caremark Corp. CVS 0.10% emerged from its seven-month purge of
tobacco products with a new corporate name: CVS Health. The retail chain
and pharmacy-benefits manager unveiled the new moniker Wednesday, coinciding
with the sale of its last tobacco...
CVS
Bets On Anti-Smoking Positioning with Corporate Commitment ...
brandchannel.com - September 3, 2014
CVS Health is backing up this huge wager with a passel of new ads and
social media activations about the benefits of a smoke-free life under
the theme "One ...
Integrity
In Retail Health Care: Rethinking The Sale Of Tobacco ...
Health Affairs (blog) - September 3, 2014
... she is confronted with a long row of tobacco products and advertising,
just at sight level. ... but the addicted smoker is just going to buy
cigarettes somewhere else. ... Cigarette purchases at pharmacies by
patients at high risk of smoking-related illness.
CVS
Rebrands As It Declares Itself Free Of Tobacco
MediaPost Communications - September 3, 2014
But “one product CVS doesn't plan to carry is electronic cigarettes,”
he writes. “We don't think it's consistent with everything that
we've talked about,” Merlo told ...
Legislature
urges state ban on tobacco sales in pharmacies
Salamanca Press - August 29, 2014
LITTLE VALLEY Cattaraugus County lawmakers voted 16-2 on Wednesday,
Aug. 27 in support of a ban on the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies.
The resolution, already approved by the Cattaraugus County Board of
Health, states that the Cattaraugus County Legislature supports ending
the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies, and calls for state legislative
action.
Stop
outrage over cigarette sale ban
Albany Times Union (blog) - August 20, 2014
I'm writing in response to Chris Churchill's Aug. 14 on the recent Albany
County Legislature's vote to ban smoking in pharmacies and supermarkets
that contain ...
County
lawmakers seek support for statewide ban on sale of ...
Olean Times Herald - August 19, 2014
...The resolution does not seek to ban pharmacies selling tobacco in
this county alone. "Tobacco sales in pharmacies raise ethical questions
since tobacco is the ... cigarettes on the Seneca Indian territories,
according to local health official...
Cattaraugus
County health officials vote to join anti-tobacco campaign
Bradford Era - July 31, 2014
“There are eight pharmacies selling cigarettes in Cattaraugus
County,” ... In October, that number will be reduced by one, as
the CVS in Olean ends tobacco sales. ... on the part of pharmacies that
profit from the sale of harmful products such as ...
'Smoke
and Mirrors': Eliminating Tobacco from Pharmacies
Huffington Post (blog) - July 28, 2014
Productivity and health care losses, attributable to smoking, cost the
nation at ... that would ban our town's CVS from selling cigarettes
and tobacco products.
County
Towns Revamping Tobacco Regulations
iBerkshires.com - July 6, 2014
LEE, Mass. Dalton, Pittsfield, and Lenox are all currently considering
revamping their tobacco regulations as they try to keep ahead of the
changing market. Meanwhile, places like Dalton are adopting language
to regulate electronic cigarettes. Wilusz said later he will return
to that Board of Health to propose a pharmacy ban.
Will
Walgreens's Benefit As CVS Drops Cigarettes?
Investing.com - June 23, 2014
Walgreen is the largest pharmacy chain in the United States. ... the
first major pharmacy chain in the US to voluntarily give up cigarette
and tobacco sales.
CVS
Stops Smoking, Strengthens Strategy Shift
Motley Fool - June 20, 2014
CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS ) announced that it plans to stop selling tobacco
products earlier this year. Now the company is involved in a fundraising
campaign to support Lung Force, an initiative launched by the American
Lung Association (ALA). The goal is to raise awareness about the threat
lung cancer poses to women -- it is the leading cause of cancer-related
death in women (surpassing breast cancer in 1987). The campaign runs
until June 29, 2014.
County
Legislature Highlights
Lansing Star - June 20, 2014
The Legislature joined the Tompkins County Board of Health in expressing
support of ending the sale of tobacco products in all pharmacies and
stores that contain a pharmacy department. The vote was 12-2, with Legislators
Dan Klein and Leslyn McBean-Clairborne voting no. Calling tobacco products
highly addictive and responsible for the preventable death of thousands
of people in the state each year, the resolution approved by the Legislature
maintains that sale of such harmful products by pharmacies and providers
of health care represents a conflict of interest. The measure notes
that, according to a consultant survey last year, more than half of
adult residents of Tompkins County believe pharmacies should not be
allow to sell tobacco products; that a majority of pharmacists are opposed
to pharmacies selling tobacco; and that Attorneys General of 28 states
and territories, including New York, believe that removing tobacco products
from stores that contain a pharmacy would be a step forward in keeping
tobacco products away from youth and preventing youths from starting
to smoke.
Tompkins
County Supports Ending Pharmacy Tobacco Sales
ithaca.com - June 19, 2014
Tompkins County has joined a nationwide push to persuade pharmacies
in ending sales of tobacco products. At its Tuesday, June 17 meeting,
the county Legislature voted 12-2 (with legislators Dan Klein and Leslyn
McBean-Clairborne voting no) in expressing support of ending sales of
tobacco products in all pharmacies and stores that contain pharmacy
departments.
10
lessons companies can learn from CVS' decision to ditch cigarettes
The Guardian - June 18, 2014
Over the past few months my company, CVS Caremark, has received much
attention for its decision to remove tobacco from its 7,600 CVS/pharmacy
locations in the US. Some view it as a major step forward for retailers
and public health. Others consider it a bold business move where tobacco
accounted for $2bn in annual sales. What we saw was a health epidemic
with 480,000 tobacco-related deaths each year, and a $300bn annual economic
wallop attributed to smoking. It wasnt an easy business decision, but
it was the right one
This
Week: Tompkins Leaders to Review Ambitious 2015 Capital ...
ithaca.com - June 16, 2014
Tompkins County Legislature meets at 5:30 p.m. in Legislative Chambers
at the Governor Daniel D. Tompkins building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca.
According to their agenda, legislators will vote on a resolution in
support of banning cigarette sales in all pharmacies and stores that
contain pharmacies. The action follows New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman's and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's push to persuade
major pharmacies to stop selling tobacco products. Tompkins legislators
will also vote to accept more than $13,000 in state grant funding to
mitigate future flooding at Six Hundred Road in the town of Caroline.
New
tobacco regulations take effect in Weymouth
Wicked Local Weymouth - June 12, 2014
Pharmacies and health institutions won't be allowed to sell tobacco
products effective Jan. 1, 2015 under new regulations approved by the
board of health June 4. E-cigarettes have not been approved by the FDA
(Federal Drug Administration) or tested, he said. More information in
this report will be available in the June…
Doctors
Prescribe a Pharmacy Ban on Tobacco Sales, Dollar Stores ...
Motley Fool - June 12, 2014
Major medical associations are rallying pharmacies to follow the lead
of CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS ) and ban tobacco sales in their stores.
Earlier this year the pharmacy chain said that by Oct. 1 it will stop
selling cigarettes at its more than 7,600 drugstores, saying the contradiction
of it caring for its ...
CVS
cigarette ban is right move at right price
Chicago Tribune - June 11, 2014
We learn as children that doing the right thing often comes at a cost.
For businesses, there's an actual ledger. If the proverbial road to
hell is in fact paved with good intentions, executives with publicly
held companies fear the Street will kick them to the curb if steering
the straight and narrow means too bumpy a ride for investors. But to
outsiders looking in, they may appear to deserve a boot either way.
We're rightly appalled when a company is caught dragging its feet doing
what its leaders must know is morally correct. Yet when a corporation
actually does what it should as CVS Caremark is in discontinuing tobacco
sales because pushing the product runs completely counter to the company's
health care mission we tend to marvel that it happened at all and only
quietly wonder what took so long...
More
AL.com readers agree retailers should quit selling cigarettes, other
tobacco products
AL.com - June 9, 2014
An unscientific AL.com poll last week shows more readers think retailers
should join CVS by stopping the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco
products. Earlier this year, CVS became the first American pharmacy
chain to announce it will take a $2 billion
AMA,
Doctor Allies Push CVS Rivals To End Tobacco Sales
AllMediaNY - June 9, 2014
Earlier this year, CVS grabbed international kudos that included acclaim
from the White House for the giant pharmacy chain's decision to stop
selling cigarettes ...
This
Week: Ithaca to Hold Hearing on Sidewalk Plan
ithaca.com - June 9, 2014
The committee will also discuss a resolution supporting ending sales
of tobacco products in pharmacies. • Candor Town Board meets at
7 p.m. in Town Hall, 101 ...
CVS
to be tobacco-free by October
Chicago Tribune - June 6, 2014
...stores will continue selling and replenishing tobacco products through
an undetermined cessation date later this year, when all inventory will
be pulled from shelves in all stores. “Our plan is to stay in business
and work down our inventory up through ...
CVS/pharmacy
Extends Commitment to Helping People Live Tobacco-Free Lives with New
In-store Fundraising Campaign to Support the American Lung Association
The Providence Journal - June 2, 2014
... to align ourselves with community partners on programs that are
helping people lead tobacco-free lives," said Helena Foulkes, President,
CVS/pharmacy.
Op-ed:
Pharmacies and drug stores shouldn't sell tobacco products
Salt Lake Tribune - May 30, 2014
Now is the time for other retail pharmacies to follow suit and discontinue
the sale of tobacco products. As CEO and Director of Huntsman Cancer
Institute, ...
Costco
to pull tobacco products from Seattle warehouse shelves
The Seattle Times - May 23, 2014
Costco Wholesale will stop selling tobacco products June 1 at the sole
Puget Sound area warehouse that still carries them, its Fourth Avenue
South location. The decision comes amid rising pressure by authorities
around the country for large retailers to follow CVS Caremarks move
to stop selling cigarettes for health reasons. But Costco Chief Financial
Officer Richard Galanti says the move to take tobacco out of the Seattle
warehouse is more of a business decision, because very few individual
customers buy cigarettes at Costco. Two Costco Business Centers in Lynnwood
and Fife will continue to sell cigarettes. Small-business owners account
for about 90 percent of tobacco sales at Costco
CVS
Caremark publishes 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility ...
Drug Store News - May 19, 2014
In conjunction with stopping the sale of tobacco products, CVS Caremark
also will be investing in smoking-cessation programs going forward.
Other highlights in ...
CVS
Caremark Corporation (NYSE:CVS) CEO And President Larry ...
USTrade Voice - May 16, 2014
The President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Matthew L. Myers,
stated that the courageous decision of CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE:CVS)
...
Pallone
Calls on Pharmacies to Stop Selling Tobacco Products
PolitickerNJ - May 15, 2014
“Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in
the United States,” said ... and marketing of Electronic Cigarettes,
also known as e-cigarettes.
Ban
Goes Up in Smoke
The Putnam County Courier (subscription) - May 7, 2014
It's still no cigar when it comes to banning cigarette sales in pharmacies
countywide. By the slimmest of 5-4 margins, the Putnam Legislature Tuesday
evening ...
NJ
Congressman Fights Against Tobacco [AUDIO]
New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio - May 2, 2014
“Pharmacies and chain drug stores, basically their purpose really
is to improve people's health,” Pallone said. “It's inconsistent,
if you will, to be selling tobacco ...
CVS'
Pharmacies Fuel Strong Q1 Earnings Performance
Investor's Business Daily - May 2, 2014
Revenue rose 6.3% to $32.7 billion, beating views, amid a 1.4% overall
increase in same-store sales, covering a 3.8% jump in pharmacy sales
and a 3.8% drop ...
Bulls
See CVS Smoking Competition as Earnings Approach: Options
Bloomberg – April 30, 2014
Even with a ban on tobacco sales forecast to slow earnings, CVS Caremark
Corp. (CVS) shareholders still can't seem to kick the habit of owning
the stock.
House
Lawmakers Ask Drugstores to Toss Tobacco
NACS Online - April 30, 2014
WASHINGTON Close to three months ago, CVS said that by October, it would
no longer sell tobacco products in its stores. Now, a dozen House members
sent a letter to the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS)
urging its members to follow suit, the Consumerist reports. Less than
a week after the CVS announcement, eight U.S. Senators called upon other
drugstores to also ban tobacco sales. Meanwhile, last month, 28 state
attorneys general also added their voice to the effort, urging pharmacy
retailers to stop selling tobacco products.
CVS
To Retain Its Growth Momentum In Q1'14
Trefis - April 30, 2014
Strength In CVS Core Business To Offset Lower Tobacco Sales: In February,
CVS declared its decision to exit the tobacco industry by the end of
October 2014. The company feels that the decision is consistent with
its growing role in the changing healthcare marketplace. It sees this
as an opportunity to connect with consumers as an expert in health and
beauty and to build loyalty with them. On a 12-month basis, CVS estimates
that it will lose approximately $2 billion in annual revenue from tobacco
sales and an additional $0.5 billion from the rest of the shoppers basket.
Given the expected timing for implementing this change, this will cost
$0.06 to $0.09 per share in 2014. However, CVS is confident of maintaining
its earnings and segment operating profit guidance as well as the five-year
financial targets provided at its Analyst Day conference. It believes
that the growing strength in its core business, especially the retail
pharmacy business, as well as its profit enhancing initiatives will
help offset the $.06 to $.09 EPS shortfall.
Should
stores with pharmacies sell cigarettes?
Gazette.Net: Maryland - April 25, 2014
The council introduced a resolution Tuesday calling on the retailers
to stop selling cigarettes, saying it contradicts the sale of medicine
and health products in ...
Montgomery
Co. asks pharmacists to stop selling tobacco products
WJLA - April 22, 2014
(WJLA) - Bruce Goodarzi says that not allowing pharmacies to sell tobacco
products ... he runs Rockville Pharmacy, and has always chosen not to
sell cigarettes.
Braintree
Health Board backs stricter tobacco rules
Wicked Local Braintree - April 18, 2014
Braintree's move to ban cigarette sales in pharmacies also follows a
trend that many see as inevitable. Boston banned the sale of tobacco
products in ...
Florida
Pharmacy Association to sponsor Tobacco Free Florida Week
Sunshine State News - April 18, 2014
... the Sixth Annual Tobacco Free Florida Week, an effort to encourage
members to help clients understand that it is in their best interest
to be smoke free.
Lawmakers
Mixed on Cigarette Sales Ban ($$)
Putnam County News and Recorder (subscription) - April 16, 2014
The Putnam Legislature next month will again attempt to approve a resolution
banning cigarette sales in pharmacies countywide. Last year such a move
failed by a 7-2 vote.
Richard's
Market on Lanai stops selling cigarettes, tobacco products
Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - April 15, 2014
Richards Market, one of only a few supermarkets in Lanai City, ceased
selling cigarette and tobacco products on Monday in a move mirroring
Longs Drugs parent CVS Caremark, citing the right thing to do for its
customers as they strive for better health.
Bill
Pfeifer: Pharmacies must quit selling tobacco products
Arizona Daily Star - April 14, 2014
This February, CVS Caremark announced that it was ending tobacco sales
in its retail pharmacies. The American Lung Association agrees that
selling cigarettes ...
Which
Pharmacy Chain is Truly Anti-Smoking?
The Reality-Based Community - April 14, 2014
CVS Pharmacies recently took the remarkable step of ending its sales
of tobacco products nationwide. The remaining US pharmacy chains were
recently asked to follow CVS lead by a range of public health advocacy
groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College
of Cardiology, the American Lung Association, Action on Smoking &
Health, the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, Legacy, the National African
American Tobacco Prevention Network and the Trust for Americans Health.
But one prominent organization refused to sign: The American Cancer
Society.
CVS
kicking tobacco habit; others to follow?
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - April 12, 2014
Since announcement in February, chain's shares have hit all-time highs
10 times It has long been gospel among retailers that tobacco pulls
so much business into stores, with smokers also picking up water, gum
or a bag of chips, that dumping it would be a sales killer. Since the
nation's second-largest drugstore chain announced it would dump tobacco
just over two months ago, its shares have hit new all-time highs 10
times. That's not to say that the CVS case is unique. CVS Caremark Corp.
is part of a booming industry. In that same stretch since early February,
shares of rivals Walgreen Co. and Rite Aid Corp. have surged as well.
CVS
goes cold turkey; may pressure rivals, or not
Knoxville News Sentinel - April 10, 2014
However, with pressure from anti-smoking forces growing, tobacco use
waning and ... in the face of tax hikes, smoking bans, health concerns
and social stigma.
Retailers
watching US drugstore for effects of cigarette withdrawal
CTV News - April 9, 2014
It's probably too early to say, but major retailers will be paying close
attention to the sales numbers after CVS Caremark pulls tobacco from
its shelves by October. If the old retail rules governing tobacco have
not changed outright, they are at least coming up for review.
SWAT
honors CVS store
Apalachicola Times - April 9, 2014
5, Larry J. Merlo, president and CEO of CVS Caremark said, "Ending
the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right
thing for us to do .
ViewPoint:
Follow the CVS model: Make your bottom line work with your mission
Boston Business Journal – April 4, 2014
CVS Caremark’s decision to stop selling tobacco products will cost
the company $2 billion in annual sales, or about 6 to 9 cents in profit
per share this year. It may seem unusual that the CVS Caremark board
would support a decision to lower shareholder profits in the immediate
term. ...
CVS
Caremark right to remove tobacco
Gloversville Leader-Herald - April 4, 2014
I am happy to say I will be supporting my local CVS as they transition
to a tobacco-free retailer by making them my pharmacy of choice. I won't
have to worry ...
Walgreen
Ready to Smoke CVS With Tobacco Sales
Motley Fool - March 28, 2014
Despite a gang of U.S. senators and state attorneys general attempting
to bully pharmacy chains to follow the lead of CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS
) in banning ...
CVS
right to halt cigarette sales, most say
Rochester Business Journal - March 28, 2014
I favor banning the sale of tobacco products altogether. ... administration,
and the CEO asked me what I thought of banning smoking on the “acute
care floors.
How
pharmacies are hurting Hispanic health
VOXXI - March 28, 2014
We all know pharmacies sell tobacco products, but did you know they
are ... and their role is contradicted by the sale of cigarettes,”
said Andrew Peterson ... Among Hispanic subgroups, however, cigarette
use varies significantly, with ... For many pharmacies in urban neighborhoods,
tobacco sales are important for business.
Pressure
on Pharmacies to Break Up With Big Tobacco Increases
Motley Fool-by Rupert Hargreaves - March 26, 2014
CVS recently announced that it will stop stocking tobacco products in
stores, now Rite Aid and Walgreen are being pressured to follow A group
of attorneys-general from 28 states and territories has sent a letter
to the chief executives of Wal-Mart, Walgreen (NYSE: WAL), Rite Aid
(NYSE: RAD), Safeway, and Kroger asking them to remove tobacco products
from their tobacco shelves. The letters all followed a common line,
mainly the fact that: This pressure follows a move by a trio of organizations,
including the National Consumers League, the Center for Science in the
Public Interest, and the Change to Win Retail Initiatives, which sent
a letter to Walgreen earlier this year asking the company to remove
tobacco products from its 8,700 stores. Further, it would appear that
CVS as well as other drugstores will still stock smoking cessation aids
or, as Philip Morris International and Altria (NYSE: MO) like to call
them, "reduced-risk products," and both Philip Morris and
Altria have been working to increase their share of this market during
the past year. For example, Altria already has two "reduced-risk"
products for sale within the United States. These products are Verve,
a chewable nicotine product, and Denmark, a type of gum that contains
tobacco. Altria is also receiving several new reduced risk products
as part of a technology-sharing deal agreed upon recently with Philip
Morris. In exchange for the "reduced-risk" products, Philip
Morris is receiving exclusive rights to market Altria's e-cig products
outside of the U.S. Now, I could mention electronic cigarettes here
and say that Altria will benefit from sales of e-cigs in drugstores,
but due to the regulatory environment surrounding e-cigs, I'm not comfortable
with making this claim.
Walgreen
Isn't Quite Ready to Quit Smoking
Businessweek - March 25, 2014
Thats the ongoing cigarette policy at Walgreen (WAG), weeks after CVS
Caremark (CVS), its larger rival, pledged to quit hawking tobacco. Yet,
on a conference call with analysts this morning, Chief Executive Officer
Gregory Wasson managed to not quite answer a question about just how
much cigarette business it could pick up from CVSs decision to snuff
out smokes. What were focused on is to help encourage our customers
to make healthy choices, and not only just with cigarettes, but with
daily habits, Wasson said. That includes helping people quit.
Cigarettes
Continue to Draw Customers
Convenience Store Decisions - March 21, 2014
Cigarettes, along with other tobacco products (OTP), combined to account
for 40.7% of ... However, according to Information Resources Inc. (IRI),
cigarette sales in the ... like smoking bans, health concerns, pricing
and other government regulations, ... “We're who they come to and
as supermarkets, pharmacies and big- box ...
Attorney
Generals Asking Pharmacies to Stop Selling Tobacco ...
WRIC - March 20, 2014
"I think it's probably in their best interest not to sell tobacco
based on the fact that they're trying to sell drugs and pharmaceuticals
to support good health," says ...
Will
Walgreen and Wal-Mart Follow CVS' Lead and Stop Selling ...
Motley Fool - March 20, 2014
"Smoking is the leading cause of premature illness and death in
the United States. ... smokers as the move just seems to make sense
-- like banning open flames ...
Walgreens
promotes health but still sells tobacco
Indianapolis Star - March 20, 2014
Incongruently, Walgreens' Well Experience also includes the sale of
tobacco. Pharmacists are health care colleagues who provide essential
services; they dispense ... In Indiana, Walgreens' tobacco sales have
outraged a group of interested ...
Should
Walmart, Walgreens Stop Selling Tobacco?
Patch.com - March 19, 2014
The group wants the ban for stores with pharmacies. "There is a
contradiction in having these dangerous and devastating tobacco products
on the shelves of a ...
Indiana
Attorney General Urges Retailers to End Tobacco Sales
MyWabashValley - March 19, 2014
Smokers and non-smokers here in the valley agreee. "The accessibility
of the cigarets it is really a burden, they can't stop. I've been trying
to stop for a long time ...
States
want pharmacies to stop selling cigarettes
ConsumerAffairs - March 19, 2014
When CVS announced in February that it would stop selling cigarettes,
it became just a matter of time until other chains followed suit or
were pressured to do so by health advocates. And, sure enough, a coalition
of state attorneys general is now calling on Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Rite-Aid,
Safeway and Kroger to remove all tobacco products from their shelves.
Pharmacies and drug stores, which increasingly market themselves as
a source ... The fact that these stores profit from the sale of cigarettes
and tobacco must ...
Why
It Doesn't Matter If Wal-Mart and Walgreen Stop Selling Cigarettes
Motley Fool - March 18, 2014
It's nice to think that companies like Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and Walgreen
(NYSE: WAG) could drive a stake through the heart of the tobacco industry
if they chose not to sell cigarettes. But this simply isn't the case.
Group
of state AGs want businesses to stomp out tobacco
WSHM-TV - March 18, 2014
Cigarettes, chewing tobacco and similar products - all come with warnings
from Surgeon General. And now a group of attorneys general are joining
the fight against smoking. The prosecutors sent a letter to Walgreens
and Rite-Aid - along with Walmart, Kroger and Safeway, bigger retailers
with pharmacies in their stores.
Martha
Coakley backs AGs' call to snuff smokes
Boston Herald - March 18, 2014
A group of 28 state attorneys general are calling on Wal-Mart and other
retailers to follow the lead of CVS Caremark and stop selling tobacco
products in their stores with pharmacies a move Massachusetts AG Martha
Coakley backs but has not yet signed.
AGs
to pharmacies: Stop selling tobacco. Please.
New York Business Journal - March 17, 2014
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is hoping to pressure major
chain pharmacies to follow the lead of CVS Caremark Corp. and stop selling
tobacco products. Schneiderman and his Ohio counterpart Mike DeWine
authored a letter(PDF) released today, cosigned by 26 other state AGs
from states, Washington, D.C. and U.S. territories, asking them to remove
tobacco products promptly. The letter does not threaten any force, such
as legislation or litigation. It also does not mention e-cigarettes.
Walgreens
promotes health but still sells tobacco
Indianapolis Star - March 17, 2014
Its really important to be rooted in health care, Beth Stiller, vice
president of category strategy and innovation for Walgreens said. We
continue to innovate around how to increase the role of community pharmacy,
become a destination, and help with health care in our communities.
This is a quote from the June 14, 2013, USA Today regarding Walgreens
retail strategy of increasingly offering health-care services, among
other consumer products, fresh foods and amenities. She continued, Theyre
part of an overhaul Walgreens is implementing across many of its stores
in an effort to emphasize overall health and wellness. Walgreens calls
it the Well Experience. Last year, a Chicago Tribune journalist interviewed
Walgreens CEO Greg Wasson, a graduate of the Purdue University College
of Pharmacy, stating, He wants his stores to be known as a destination
for health and daily living. He believes that Walgreens can and will
play a bigger role in the delivery of health care. He wants his customers
to turn to their store pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and doctors
for primary care. Incongruently, Walgreens Well Experience also includes
the sale of tobacco. Walgreens should follow CVS bold lead. If Walgreens
considers itself to be a health-care provider, why cant it act like
one?
States
urge retail giants with pharmacies to stop selling tobacco
Boston Globe - March 17, 2014
More than two dozen attorneys general sent letters Sunday to five of
the countrys largest retailers, encouraging them to stop selling tobacco
products in stores that have pharmacies, which would follow the example
CVS Caremark set with its announcement this year that it would stop
selling such products in its drugstores.
24
States Pressure Walmart, Walgreens To Stop Selling Cigarettes
Huffington Post - March 17, 2014
Attorney Generals from 24 states, Washington D.C., and three U.S. territories
sent letters to the country's biggest pharmaceutical retailers Monday,
including Walmart and Walgreens, asking them to stop selling tobacco
products.
Letter:
Commending CVS for tobacco policy
INFORUM - March 15, 2014
As a public health agency we are always educating on the harms of tobacco-use
and exposure. We know that smoking kills nearly 500,000 Americans each
year, and costs $289 billion in health care costs.
Marin
CVS stops sales of tobacco
Novato Advance - March 13, 2014
The rate of reduction in smoking prevalence has stalled in the past
decade. ... The association explicitly stated that the ban should apply
to all ... Calls for banning tobacco sales in pharmacies have also come
from the American ... led by San Francisco and Boston, have banned the
sale of tobacco products in pharmacies.
CVS
rightly says no to tobacco
Youngstown Vindicator - March 7, 2014
Tribune: CVS Caremark Corp. recently decided to pull tobacco products
from its ... can still purchase tobacco products, just not any longer
at CVS pharmacies.
CVS
readies for future, will stop selling tobacco Oct. 1
Rappahannock News - March 3, 2014
RICHMOND The giant U.S. pharmacy chain CVS announced it will stop ...
Having the sale of tobacco products along with advertising better health
really ... with the customers as they grab their heart medicine along
two packs of cigarettes. ...
Letter
to the editor: CVS made smart biz decision yanking tobacco from shelves
Columbus Business First- February 28, 2014
...products in October. Despite tremendous progress over the last 50
years that has cut adult smoking rates in half, tobacco use remains
a concern in Ohio with its adult smoking rate at 23 percent –11th...
Hoping
more pharmacies ban tobacco sales
Morning Sentinel - February 28, 2014
..., when Schieffer praised CVS pharmacies for phasing out cigarettes
and ... to see the sale — and the scourge — of tobacco products
banned in my lifetime....
CVS
to kick the habit in October
The Rushville Republican - February 28, 2014
“Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS is the
right thing for us to do for our ... While the prevalence of cigarette
smoking has decreased from ... Also added was that being the first pharmacy
to drop tobacco sales maybe a ...
WELL:
CVS Kicks the Tobacco Habit
Bloomberg View - February 27, 2014
...But we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, as they
say. This was the right call, one that should have been made a long
time ago. Pharmacies shouldn't be selling cigarettes. It's bad for business....
26
Leading Health Groups Call on Drug Stores and Other Retailers ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) - February 26, 2014
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty-six of the
nation's leading public health and medical organizations today issued
an open letter calling on drug stores and other retailers to follow
the example of CVS Caremark and end the sale of cigarettes and other
tobacco products.
ALA
applauds pharmacy's decision to stop selling tobacco
La Crosse Tribune - February 26, 2014
For the past 30 years, Ive fought for lung health with the American
Lung Association. Our organization has been a leader in the battle against
tobacco, which is the leading cause of preventable illness and death
in the U.S
Hudson
raises age to buy cigarettes to 21
MetroWest Daily News - February 26, 2014
HUDSON Beginning in July, 18-year-olds will no longer be able to buy
cigarettes in town, as Hudson health officials Tuesday night approved
raising the minimum purchase age for tobacco products to 21. The Board
of Health also banned smoking in town-owned parks and playgrounds and
voted to prohibit healthcare institutions, such as pharmacies, from
selling tobacco products in town to help reduce the high percentage
of cigarette smokers in town.
Petitioning
Walgreens: Walgreens and Duane Reade: Stop selling tobacco products
Change.org - February 25, 2014
In light of CVS's recent decision to discontinue the sale of tobacco
products, it is time for Walgreens to make the same commitment to furthering
public health. We ask that Walgreens cease the sale of tobacco products
as soon as possible.
When
Health Is Your Business: Pharmacies Must Stop Selling Cigarettes
Huffington Post (blog) - February 24, 2014
Upstairs on the VA hospital ward, I took care of patients who were dying,
slowly and painfully, from smoking-induced lung disease. I spent rare
breaks downstairs in the canteen where patients and care providers smoked,
second-hand smoke filled the air and cigarettes were sold at enticingly
low prices. As a medical resident in the mid-80s, I was being taught
the shameful and paradoxical lesson that it was acceptable to sell cigarettes
in the same health-care facility where I spent long hours learning to
treat patients being killed by tobacco products. We've come a long way
from those times. VA hospitals no longer sell cigarettes, but many pharmacies
have perpetuated this unconscionable practice, even as they clamor to
take ever larger roles in health care...
CVS
should be commended for ending cigarette sales
SILive.com - February 23, 2014
Cigarettes being sold at pharmacies have been an ongoing issue for many
years. Branded as a health-care resource providing medications to make
people ...
Will
Walgreen Follow CVS' Anti-Tobacco Move?
DailyFinance February 23, 2014
CVS' well-publicized decision to stop selling tobacco products in its
stores was done for all the right reasons from a health perspective.
The company reckons that the move will cost it around $2 billion in
annual sales, which is under 2% of its 2013 revenue. However, now that
CVS has made the first move, pressure has been increasing on Walgreen
to also remove tobacco products from its stores.
Kathleen
Sebelius: CVS decision will improve America's health
The Providence Journal - February 22, 2014
I believe a tobacco-free generation is within our reach, but it will
take commitment from across the spectrum from federal, state and local
governments, but ...
Quick Takes
UCSD The Guardian -February 21, 2014
Cigarettes, ubiquitous and dangerously addicting, may no longer be found at CVS ... Hoping for a chain reaction of other drugstores and pharmacies following suit ... as it is the first among major drugstores to decide on discontinuing tobacco sales. ... Euromonitor International reported 47.5 percent of the 290 billion cigarette ...
Mixed reactions from Peninsula residents on CVS cessation of ...
San Francisco Examiner - February 21, 2014
...s recent announcement that it will stop selling tobacco products has elicited a variety ... secondhand smoke restrictions that currently apply to tobacco cigarettes.
...
Wal-Mart urged to end tobacco sales ($$)
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - February 20, 2014
The recent decision by drugstore chain CVS Caremark to halt tobacco
sales at its 7,600-plus stores prompted some lawmakers to ask other
big-name retailers to do the same.
CVS
shows leadership in ending tobacco sales
Baltimore Business Journal – February 21, 2014
...products and to embark on a campaign to help people quit smoking,
which will also help reduce our communities’ healthcare costs.
During my decades-long career fighting cancer, I ...
Dracut
pharmacies to become smoke free March 1
Boston Business Journal (blog) - February 21, 2014
Dracut pharmacies to become smoke free March 1. Staff Boston Business
Journal. Pharmacies in Dracut will stop selling cigarettes March 1,
the Lowell Sun ...
Letter
to the Editor: CVS’ bold action against cancer
St. Louis Business Journal – February 21, 2014
...Limit access to tobacco products in the workplace • Create smoke-free
workplaces and help employees stop smoking • Join CEOs Against
Cancer to make a positive impact on your business and community Thank
you …
Guest
Opinion: Westport youth helped snuff out pharmacy tobacco ...
Fall River Herald News - February 19, 2014
Guest Opinion: Westport youth helped snuff out pharmacy tobacco sales
... to present it the benefits of banning the sale of tobacco in our
town's pharmacies. ... is sold to make a person feel better, to sell
a deadly product such as cigarettes. ... to have influenced the ban
of the sale of tobacco products in both pharmacies in the ...
An
evaluation of CVS's motives in banning of cigarette sales
keene-equinox - February 20, 2014
I believe that this could be the future of pharmacies across the nation
in just a few ... principles of a health care provider, thus the reason
for the ban on cigarettes.
CVS
strives to improve health of America
Rutartan - February 20, 2014
Since CVS is one of the most popular pharmacies in the United States,
they are ... “Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products
at CVS is the right thing for us to ... CVS can expect to see a 2 billion
dollar decrease from sales, but they are ...
Philip
C. Cochran: CVS smart to dump tobacco products
Muncie Star Press - February 18, 2014
This month, CVS announced that it would become the first national pharmacy
chain to halt tobacco sales a decision that paid immediate dividends
in positive ...
CVS
sets example for other pharmacies with tobacco ban: PennLive ...
The Patriot-News - February 18, 2014
Congratulations to CVS Pharmacy for eliminating tobacco products from
their stores. As a physician, it always struck me as a contradiction
that pharmacies sell ...
Did
CVS halt tobacco sales to join ACOs?
FierceHealthPayer - February 18, 2014
CVS Caremark's decision to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco
products could mean more partnerships between insurers and the pharmacy
giant, reported Forbes.
CVS
Will Stop Selling Cigarettes By October
Justmeans (blog) - February 18, 2014
Chain pharmacies are increasingly retooling themselves as health and
wellness centers. There are several reasons why, including the Affordable
Care Acts expansion of access to health care coverage. Some chain pharmacies
are now running retail health clinics. Over 1,600 such clinics are operated
by CVS Caremark, Walgreens, Rite Aid and other chain stores. Some have
questioned how pharmacies that offer health services can sell cigarettes
which are linked to a slew of health problems, including lung cancer.
CVS understands the paradox of selling cigarettes. The company announced
recently that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products
at all of its 7,600 stores across the U.S. by October 1, 2014.
Off
Beat: Pharmacy chain's tobacco announcement an echo
The Columbian - February 17, 2014
After almost three decades, the nation's second-biggest pharmacy chain
is ... in The Columbian: "Cigarettes snuffed: 10 Hi-School shops
to stop tobacco sales.".
Should
CVS Caremark be praised or confronted?
Associated Baptist Press (blog) - February 17, 2014
Reports are that selling tobacco products is a $2 billion income stream
for CVS. Yet they believe they will more than make it up through new
partnerships they are negotiating with hospitals to be part of an integrative
health care provider system. In fact, hospitals are challenging them
on their sale of tobacco products and it might be suggested that their
failure to cease selling tobacco products could be a deal breaker.
CVS
kicks the habit
North Andover Citizen - February 17, 2014
CVS Caremark, a national chain of pharmacies and convenience stores,
has opted to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products effective
Oct. 1 this year. The decision by the corporation comes almost two years
after the North Andover Board of Health had discussed the possibility
of barring the sale of smokes at pharmacies in town
Local
health officials look to curb tobacco sales
Berkshire Eagle - February 17, 2014
LEE -- Local health officials hope to curb tobacco sales in Berkshire
County by capitalizing on CVS' self-imposed nationwide ban of tobacco
products from its 7,600 stores later this year. Pittsfield, Lee, Lenox,
Stockbridge and, as of April 1, Adams currently prohibit tobacco sales
in pharmacies or in stores with pharmacies, among 70 cities and towns
statewide who have instituted such a ban since 2009. Wilusz plans to
meet with the North Adams Board of Health next month to discuss a pharmaceutical
tobacco ban in that city.
OPINION:
Nation should follow CVS
Cincinnati.com - February 15, 2014
This year, the U.S. surgeon general issued a report to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the initial landmark 1964 report linking tobacco
smoke with lung...
CVS
promotes health, gains public interest
DIG Magazine - February 15, 2014
“Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy
is the right ... Within a week of announcing their ban on tobacco, CVS
Caremark company ... losses of tobacco sales and instead focus on selling
healthcare-related items.
How
Obamacare Helps CVS Kick The Habit
Forbes - February 15, 2014
CVS has estimated that its decision to cease tobacco sales by October
will ... The idea is to improve health outcomes and ACOs need pharmacists
to do that.
CVS
tobacco ban sparks sustainability questions
GreenBiz.com (blog) - February 14, 2014
CVS, a national pharmacy chain and increasingly, a healthcare provider,
... This, of course, will come along with the loss of profits associated
with cigarette sales, and it ... By abandoning tobacco sales, CVS now
can be taken much more seriously ... We all have some "cigarettes"
on our shelves that need trashing over time ...
Trend
that's worth continuing
Fort Wayne Journal - February 14, 2014
Companies have seen little incentive to stop tobacco sales, and for
good financial ... “Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products
at CVS/pharmacy is the ...
CVS:
Committed Vs. Smoking
Fort Wayne Journal - February 14, 2014
Last week, CVS announced that it would become the first national pharmacy
chain to halt tobacco sales – a decision that paid immediate dividends
in positive ...
Northeast
Ohio officials praise CVS for removing tobacco products ...
News-Herald.com - February 14, 2014
Pharmacy mogul CVS recently announced plans to cut all tobacco sales
by Oct. 1, ... Axing cigarette sales is just one component of CVS's
aim for promoting ... While CVS hopes cutting tobacco sales will impede
smokers from obtaining cigarettes, ... While Becker understands those
concerns, he looks at the ban on tobacco ...
Other
views: CVS deserves credit for altering tobacco policy
Aiken Standard - February 13, 2014
The decision by CVS pharmacies nationwide to quit selling cigarettes
and ... About $1.5 billion of the company's $123 billion in annual sales
comes from tobacco. ... of Coke without endangering themselves but even
one cigarette is harmful.
New
CVS policy already exists in Oswego County pharmacies
Oswegonian - February 13, 2014
Her stance on tobacco sales in pharmacy is summed up in the letter:
“No doctor ... Jenkins expressed her excitement over the CVS ban
on tobacco products.
CVS
puts its money where its cigarettes are
LimaOhio.com - February 13, 2014
CVS Caremark operates nearby pharmacies in Oberlin, Elyria, Lorain,
North ... The company announced last week that it will end all cigarette
sales at its 7,600 stores ... “The sale of tobacco products is
inconsistent with our purpose – helping ...
RISH:
All Mississippi pharmacies should stop selling tobacco products
Hattiesburg (MS) American - February 13, 2014
As a practicing pulmonologist, I see the devastation cigarette smoke
wreaks on the body, and encourage other mega-pharmacy networks such
as Walgreens and Walmart to assume the same social responsibility as
CVS has demonstrated this week.
When
teens took on tobacco
Boston.com - February 13, 2014
When CVS announced it would stop selling tobacco products last week,
an extra ... That's where the push to get cigarettes off pharmacy shelves
was begun 14 years ... BOLD got a meeting with the paper to talk about
cigarette ads, but it didn't seem ... Health Commission, urging it to
ban cigarettes from pharmacies citywide, ...
Editorial
| CVS deserves credit for tobacco policy
MyrtleBeachOnline.com - February 13, 2014
The decision by CVS pharmacies nationwide to quit selling cigarettes
and other ... About $1.5 billion of the company's $123 billion in annual
sales comes from tobacco. ... of Coke without endangering themselves
but even one cigarette is harmful. ...
Editorial:
CVS stores revoke the smoke
MENAFN.COM - February 13, 2014
This is the first time a national chain pharmacy has taken tobacco products
off its shelves. ... The institute published statistics that show 443,000
people die from cigarette smoke ... Cigarettes affect not just the person
who smokes them, but also those who are ... The decision would cut about
2 billion in sales for CVS stores.
Cartoon:
Everything's healthy at the tobacco-free CVS
OpEdNews - February 12, 2014
February 12, 2014 at 16:50:14 Permalink Cartoon: Everything's healthy
at the tobacco-free CVS. Tell A Friend. SAVE AS FAVORITE · VIEW
FAVORITES ...
CVS
Caremark Corporation (CVS) news: CVS: Bright Long-Term ...
Seeking Alpha - February 12, 2014
Tobacco sales were responsible for drawing 17 cents per share on an
... In my honest opinion, it is a rather proactive approach to drop
tobacco from its pharmacies. ... Discontinuing the cigarette sales is
good for the company from a financial ...
Hematology/Oncology
Pharmacy Association (HOPA) Applauds ...
PR Newswire (press release) - February 12, 2014
"Tobacco-related deaths are preventable and CVS/Caremark's bold
decision is an important step in the right direction. Many cancers are
not preventable, and ...
Adams
approves new restrictions on sale of tobacco products
Berkshire Eagle - February 12, 2014
The use of e-cigarettes and other tobacco-related products in public
spaces, ... from local store owners that restrictions on cigar sales
were unnecessary. ... no pharmacy representatives voiced displeasure
with the pharmacy ban proposal.
Community
applauds pharmacies that trash tobacco sales
Gainesville Times - February 12, 2014
Some pharmacies dropped the harmful product long ago. ... “Ending
the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right
thing for us to do ...
Groups
Call On Walgreens To Stop Evaluating Cigarette Sales And Just Stop Them
Already
The Consumerist-by Chris Morran - February 12, 2014
Last week, Walgreens responded to the news that CVS would stop selling
cigarettes by saying it was evaluating its tobacco line. That didnt
sit well with some advocacy groups who have called on the nations largest
drugstore chain to give up its nicotine addiction. In a letter to Walgreens
CEO Greg Wasson (not to be confused with Nightmare On Elm Street 3 star
Craig Wasson), representatives for the National Consumers League, the
Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Change to Win Retail
Initiatives, ask the retailer to follow the lead of CVS and stop selling
and advertising tobacco products
CVS
decision to end cigarette sales inspires quitting, health officials
...
Press of Atlantic City - February 12, 2014
CVS's decision to stop selling tobacco products is another important
step in hopefully reducing South Jersey's highest-in-the-state adult
smoking rates, health officials contend.
CVS
sets powerful example for China's tobacco fight
Chinadaily USA - February 12, 2014
However, CVS Caremark President and CEO Larry Merlo said that ending
the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right
thing for the ...
Harkin
urges US pharmacy chains to follow CVS lead on tobacco sales
DesMoinesRegister.com - February 11, 2014
This could be the beginning of the end of cigarette sales in big chain
drug stores, some Iowa health advocates believe. Now that CVS Caremark
is pulling tobacco products from the shelves of its 7,600 U.S. stores,
including 18 in Iowa, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa is leading a charge
for other national pharmacy chains to follow suit.
Editorial:
CVS leads the way on cigarettes
ReporterHerald.com - February 11, 2014
CVS Pharmacy announced it's dropping sales of cigarettes and other tobacco
products because the chain's leaders decided that selling tobacco conflicts
with its ...
Years
before CVS stubbed out cigarettes, Hiller's grocery chain did the same
The Detroit News - February 11, 2014
Jim Hiller says cigarettes were worth $250,000 a year to Hiller's, his
chain of mostly mid-sized ... than 7,600 CVS drugstores, announced last
week that it's phasing out the sale of tobacco products. ... Hiller
says CVS just became his pharmacy.
DETROIT:
Henry Ford Health System supports CVS ban on tobacco ...
Southgate News Herald - February 11, 2014
CVS Caremark announced that it will stop selling cigarettes and other
... all of which oppose tobacco sales in stores that include pharmacies,
Szilagyi said.
No
Dip for CVS Following Tobacco Announcement
TIME - February 11, 2014
CVSs stock price rose as the company reported glowing earnings Tuesday,
positioning the nations largest pharmacy chain for a strong year less
than one week after it announced it would stop selling tobacco products
in the U.S.
Walgreen
should join CVS in the no-smoking section
Crain's Chicago Business - February 10, 2014
In announcing this month that, as of Oct. 1, CVS Caremark Corp. will
no longer carry tobacco products in its 7,600 stores, company President
and CEO Larry J. Merlo has acknowledged the obvious incongruity of selling
cigarettes and other deadly tobacco products while positioning the drugstore
chain's pharmacies as health care providers. The decision is momentous,
as it heralds a new day of reckoning both for CVS Caremark's peers in
the retail pharmacy sector and, importantly, for the tobacco industry.
As shareholders and members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
(ICCR), we have been engaging Fortune 500 companies to encourage stronger
oversight of environmental and social impacts for more than four decades.
And a group of our members has been convening discussions with retail
pharmacy chains on the patent hypocrisy of selling tobacco products
for more than 20 years. CVS was a relatively new engagement for our
investor group, and we were pleasantly surprised when they exhibited
this unexpected about-face.
Following
CVS tobacco decision, medical groups want bans at more retailers
Baltimore Business Journal - February 10, 2014
The big question following CVS Caremark Corp.'s announcement to stop
selling tobacco at its stores is whether other businesses might follow
suit. Maryland and Washington, D.C., medical societies are hoping more
businesses will have to.
Editorial:
Pharmacies making the right call in removing tobacco from ...
Opelousas Daily World - February 10, 2014
But if local independent pharmacists can survive without tobacco sales,
then surely a giant like CVS Caremark, which sells everything from groceries
to ...
Editorial:
CVS's smart shift away from tobacco
Troy Record - February 10, 2014
But there has always been a question about what to do next to curb tobacco
use. That question received a refreshingly honest answer Thursday that
came not from government but from business. The pharmacy chain and retailer
CVS Caremark said it would phase out tobacco sales at its more than
7,600 stores by Oct. 1, a decision that will cause it to forgo an estimated
$2 billion in revenue. The company said, The sale of tobacco products
is inconsistent with our purpose helping people on their path to better
health.
CVS
puts new nail in cigarettes' coffin
Chicago Sun-Times - February 10, 2014
'A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure, Oscar Wilde
wrote, in 'The ... after that tobacco orgy, my mouth felt like the floor
of a cab, my lungs did not breathe ... I couldn't pop another $4 for
a pack another life saved by cheapness. More lives will no doubt be
saved by CVS Caremark announcing last week it will stop selling cigarettes
at its 7,600 drugstores. Not so much because smokers wont be able to
buy tobacco theres always somewhere else, though other chains, particularly
No. 1 Deerfield-based Walgreen, will surely follow but from CVS giving
a big turn to the vise of social disapproval that has been tightening
on smoking for my entire life.
Sen.
Richard Blumenthal calls on pharmacies to follow CVS lead in banning
tobacco sales
New Haven Register - February 10, 2014
Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling on other drug stores to follow CVSs
lead and stop selling tobacco products. The Connecticut Democrat and
members of the Mobilize Against Tobacco for Connecticuts Health Coalition
are set to gather at a CVS in Hartford on Monday to urge all drug stores
to sacrifice some profits but help save lives. He says smoking kills
480,000 Americans each year and costs the nation more than $289 million
in health care costs.
CVS
halting cigarette sales will not have much impact, experts say
Daily Northwestern - February 9, 2014
CVS Caremarks decision last week to halt its sale of tobacco products
will likely have little effect on local and individual smoking habits,
a Northwestern health expert said. CVS Caremark, the parent company
of CVS stores, announced Wednesday that it will stop selling cigarettes
and all other...
We
should discourage use of e-cigarettes
Brazosport Facts (subscription) - February 9, 2014
This week, CVS pharmacies announced they no longer will carry tobacco
products as of October of this year. The paradox of providing health
care services and ...
Barnidge:
CVS decision is one more reason to celebrate for ...
Contra Costa Times - February 9, 2014
No one was happier than Denice Dennis last week after the CVS drugstore
chain announced it will discontinue selling tobacco products. The manager
of the Contra Costa Tobacco Prevention Project has spent the last 16
years fighting to eliminate tobacco use.
CVS
pharmacies ending cigarette, tobacco sales despite potential $2 billion
loss
Long Beach (CA) Press-Telegram - February 7, 2014
Susan Price, manager for the Long Beach Department of Health and Human
Services’ Bureau of Community Health, also applauded CVS’
decision. “This is a significant win for public health,” said
Price, whose bureau oversees the Tobacco Education Program,...
Dedham
BOH Supports CVS's Decision to Stop Tobacco Sales
Patch.com - February 7, 2014
While pharmacies in Dedham are already prohibited from selling tobacco,
... of CVS Caremark's decision to stop selling cigarettes and other
tobacco products in ...
Many
Mainers approve of CVS decision to stop selling tobacco ...
Bangor Daily News - February 7, 2014
...5, 2014, that it will clear its shelves of cigars, cigarettes, and
other tobacco products ... losing cigarette sales because of his decision
last month to drop tobacco products, ... municipalities, including Boston,
have banned tobacco sales in pharmacies. ... bans and believes they
helped pharmacies get comfortable with the idea.
Gas
stations need to kick the habit, too
Boston Globe - February 7, 2014
But if this country really wants to reduce smoking, we need to get gas
stations and convenience stores to stop carrying packs of smokes, too.
Medical
Society Applauds CVS' Decision to Stop Selling Tobacco
Physicians News Digest - February 7, 2014
Another health care threat mimics tobacco and is becoming more popular
each day with our country's younger generations. That threat? Electronic
cigarettes.
CVS' Tobacco Exit Draws Reaction, Applause
CSNews Online - February 7, 2014
[no link found]
CVS did not respond to a CSNews Online inquiry regarding where e-cigarettes
stand in relation to the October move. However, according to Time, CVS
doesn't ...
Expert
QA: CDC's Tom Frieden on CVS and Tobacco
WebMD (blog) - February 7, 2014
When pharmacies decide not to sell tobacco products, is the primary
benefit the ... modification modality — as in, “If you behave
well you can get 5 cigarettes.
CVS's
tobacco decision may benefit it in long run
Greensboro (NC) News & Record - February 7, 2014
...is likely to weather any potential storms, local business experts
say. Yes, even here in North Carolina where tobacco is king. “I
think that in the long run, they are going to come up ahead,” said
Daniel Hall, an assistant professor of economics at High ...
Time
is right for Kroger to stop selling tobacco
Cincinnati Business Courier – February 7, 2014
...is in the health business. Many Kroger locations have pharmacies.
There are more than a dozen Little Clinics in Cincinnati Kroger stores,
and the Little Clinic website features advertisements for smoking cessation
courses …
Blount
County doctor praises CVS for end of tobacco sales
Maryville Daily Times - February 7, 2014
CVS pharmacies across the country announced Wednesday plans to stop
selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all of its 7,600 ...
part of the health-care system, the continued sale of tobacco has come
under fire. ... “That makes me feel better than government banning
it, but people will find other ways to do it.
E-Cigarette
Makers Seize On CVS' Decision To Stop Selling ...
ThinkProgress-by Sy Mukherjee - February 7, 2014
On Wednesday, CVS made history by becoming the first major U.S. pharmacy
chain to agree to stop selling all tobacco products in its stores. And
e-cigarette ...
Staten
Islanders weigh in on CVS' pending removal of cigarettes ...
SILive.com - February 6, 2014
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- CVS, the nation's second-largest drugstore chain,
is kicking the habit of selling tobacco products as it continues to
shift its focus toward ...
Smokers
react to CVS going tobacco free
OCRegister (subscription) - February 6, 2014
Business. Smokers react to CVS going tobacco free. Tweet. Most Popular.
Why it cost a Huntington Beach couple $20K to get a cute Corgi off Orange
County's ...
CVS
Pulls Tobacco Products From Its Shelves; Baltimore Puts ...
CBS Local - February 6, 2014
CVS Pulls Tobacco Products From Its Shelves; Baltimore Puts Smoking
Bans On The Table ... Linh Bui has details on a bill in the works to
ban smoking. ... When asked about banning all pharmacies from selling
tobacco products in Baltimore ...
Harkin:
Other Pharmacies Should Follow CVS Caremark Lead on Tobacco Products
US Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) - February 6, 2014
“This bold and admirable decision will complement federal efforts
to save lives and reduce health care costs through continued implementation
of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the ongoing
success of public awareness campaigns like
Smoking-Cessation
Expert and Psychologist Dr. Jonathan Bricker ...
Newswise (press release) - February 6, 2014
“The CVS ban on the sale of cigarettes is a big deal for a couple
of reasons. ... large drug stores to also consider bans on sales of
cigarettes because what's ...
Bravo,
CVS, for Banning Tobacco Products
NBCNews.com (blog) - February 6, 2014
Bravo, CVS, for Banning Tobacco Products. By Tom ... There really is
no such thing as a smoke free envionment unless we ban the source. Image:
A man taps ...
Why
CVS Pharmacy tobacco ban is not just smoke and mirrors
Examiner.com - February 6, 2014
If you smoke, you will not longer be able to buy your favorite lipstick
and a pack of ... Banning sales isn't enough to stop tobacco use, which
is why CVS is also ...
CVS
Drops Cigarette Sales to Focus on Health-Care Role (2)
Businessweek - February 6, 2014
By ending the sale of tobacco products in its 7,600 pharmacies, CVS
Caremark Corp. ... The decision to drop cigarettes and other tobacco
products is expected to .... including restrictions on sales and advertising,
additional taxes and bans on ...
EDITORIAL:
Ban on tobacco sales will help nation's health
News Journal - February 6, 2014
Business plan or not, the disappearance of tobacco from such an enterprise
will help the fight against smoking. And we all will benefit.
CVS
wins widespread praise for decision to stop selling tobacco products
Providence (RI) Journal-Bulletin - February 6, 2014
Government officials from President Obama to Providence Mayor Angel
Taveras praised the Woonsocket-based company for its action. “I
congratulate — and thank — the CEO of CVS Caremark, Larry
Merlo, the board of directors, and all who helped make a choice
Pharmacy's
pledge to stop tobacco sales "magnificent", says Richard Edelman
PR Week US - February 6, 2014
decision to stop selling tobacco products has been described by Edelman
chief executive Richard Edelman as "one of the most significant
... The agency is working with the pharmacy chain as it begins the process
of removing all tobacco-related products fr
Paradox
of Cigarette Sales in Pharmacies Focus of New Movement / UCSF Scientist,
Major Pharmacy Launch National Move to Halt Tobacco Sales in Drugstores
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) - February 6, 2014
If retailers, particularly pharmacies, were to discontinue selling cigarettes,
fewer smokers and fewer deaths by smoking would occur, according to
a new opinion article co-written by a UC San Francisco scientist. That’s
also the premise behind a new deci
JOHNSON/KUNEMAN:
CVS insults its own customers: Opposing view
USA Today - February 6, 2014
It's more an opportunity to get free publicity than any serious public
health move.... As the prohibition of alcohol showed, forcing a product
underground doesn't mean people won't still use it.
BERMAN:
How Big Tobacco Can Triumph Over CVS Cigarette Ban
National Journal - February 6, 2014
But if the nation's bigger drugstores start distancing themselves from
tobacco products, Big Tobacco may be able to fill that market gap with
e-cigs. Walgreens, the country's largest drugstore chain, already sells
e-cig products, including Lorillard's ...
Could
Walgreen be the big loser in CVS's cigarette ban?
Crain's Chicago Business - February 6, 2014
It's a smart strategic play that will advance the second-largest U.S.
drugstore chain's long-term goal of landing a bigger role in the country's
evolving health care delivery system. Deerfield-based Walgreen Co.,
the country's biggest pharmacy chain and
EDITORIAL:
CVS's health credibility gets a Super Bowl-sized boost
Arizona Republic - February 6, 2014
Our View: Even with lost tobacco sales, chain made a shrewd decision...
AL
pharmacy stopped tobacco sales 20 years before CVS
WSFA 12 (Montgomery, AL) - February 6, 2014
Mike Vinson is the co-owner of Adams Drugs locations throughout the
River Region. He says his stores stopped selling cigarettes on Nov.
1, 1994. Vincent said the decision came with a high price tag for his
business. "It was about a $700,000 a year...
Editorial:
CVS pullout, new ads will lower tobacco’s deadly toll
Sacramento (CA) Bee - February 6, 2014
It’s worth noticing that in the ads, the teens are buying cigarettes
at a convenience store. That highlights the fact that only about 4 percent
of tobacco products are purchased at drugstores. While the CVS move
is limited in scope, Obama praised the ...
CVS
tobacco ban could smoke out other cigarette sellers
Bay Area BizTalk, San Francisco Business Times – February 6, 2014
...is likely to be seen as a major turning point in the history of smoking
in America, which has already declined dramatically since its heydey
in the mid-20th century. Groups such as TobaccofreeRX, representing
health care professionals …
TRIGAUX:
Ending tobacco sales: Is CVS blowing smoke or becoming a smarter business?
Tampa Bay (FL) Times - February 6, 2014
That's from the 1964 surgeon general's report that marked the start
of America's battle against smoking. Near term, shareholders may regret
CVS's ending sales of high-margin tobacco products. But those investors
ultimately may reap the rewards of a drug...
Editorial
| Merchants of life
Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal - February 6, 2014
...others should follow CVS' admirable decision ... By the time cigarettes
get finished with them, people don't look anything like the Marlboro
Man -- not even the Marlboro Man...
CVS
follows Maine chain’s lead by dropping tobacco
Portland (ME) Press-Herald - February 6, 2014
Downeast Pharmacy stopped selling the products in 1993, a bold move
then, and Bow Street Market has done the same.
CVS
stores, including 41 in NH, to stop selling tobacco
Manchester (NH) Union-Leader - February 6, 2014
Dan Fortin, president and CEO of Breathe New Hampshire, believes others
retailers will one day do the same. "When you look at the health
consequences of tobacco use, and examine the economic impact to all
of us, organizations can no longer ignore...
EDITORIAL:
Applaud CVS
Hackensack (NJ) Record/Herald News - February 6, 2014
CVS has the right not to carry any merchandise it doesn't want to sell.
And the fact that a pharmacy chooses not to sell a product that is unhealthy
makes perfect sense.
Poll:
Should more stores follow CVS' example and stop selling tobacco products?
NJ.com - February 6, 2014
EDITORIAL:
CVS announcement sets precedent for tobacco industry
Washington Square News (NYU) - February 6, 2014
...Other companies must now quickly follow suit or be at the risk of
appearing to trivialize the fatal effects of cigarette smoking. The
tobacco industry, the largest killer in the United States, takes the
lives of 480,000 Americans per year — the same ...
Editorial:
CVS kicks the habit
Salisbury (NC) Post - February 6, 2014
It's tempting to play off a macaroon against a Marlboro, but there's
no inherent contradiction in CVS' decision, nor any reason to doubt
its commitment to promoting healthier lifestyles. While people will
continue to smoke, CVS has chosen not to support...
Locals
applaud CVS health decision
Lancaster (OH) Eagle-Gazette - February 6, 2014
In one way, it might just lead people to buy their tobacco products
elsewhere, he said. "But the CVS plan may also convince other people
to not sell tobacco products, which could make them harder to find,"
Barwick said. "If someone is on the cusp of ...
CVS
to stop selling tobacco products Oct. 1
Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette - February 6, 2014
Standing outside a Walgreens Wednesday, Mr. Smithburger, 23, of Homewood,
looked dismayed to learn that the place where he usually feeds his Marlboro
habit -- his local CVS drugstore -- won't be selling them anymore.
Greenville
pharmacy beats CVS to pull cigarettes
WHNS Fox21 (Greenville, SC) - February 6, 2014
Stone Plaza Pharmacy in Greenville stopped selling tobacco products
back in 2010. Its owner and pharmacist, Ken Rogers, said he didn't want
to be a cause of harm for health when his job is to get people healthier.
CVS
Stores Closing Doors to Tobacco Products; Local Impact on Farmers--Mikayla
Lewis
WZTV Fox 17 (Nashville, TN) - February 6, 2014
Corbin has continued to farm tobacco after three generations in his
family in Robertson County. Corbin says the number of tobacco farmers
dropped after the tobacco buyout nearly a decade ago. He says CVS's
decision should not impact his business directly.
CVS
Move to Ditch Tobacco Shifts Focus to E-Cigs
TIME Magazine - February 6, 2014
“It is also significant that CVS does not sell e-cigarettes and
will not sell them until the FDA provides some ‘guidance,’”
Glantz wrote on his blog. “This is another responsible act, since
not a single e-cigarette company has submitted an application to...
CVS
move won’t slow e-cigarette sales
CBS MarketWatch - February 5, 2014
... “It used to be only a select few locations would carry e-cigarettes,
and they would generally be more specialized shops,” says Haynes.
“Now it would be more surprising if you didn’t find e-cigs
anywhere that traditional cigarettes are sold.” ...
Smokers,
Smoke-Free Groups React to CVS Dropping Tobacco Sales
WBAY – February 5, 2014
And, groups like the Community Action for Healthy Living in the Fox
Valley, which promote smoke- free habits among kids, support the decision.
"When youth are ...
Tobacco
Free RI, health director praise CVS Caremark's decision to phase out
tobacco sales
AP - Associated Press - February 5, 2014
A network of Rhode Island anti-tobacco organizations and state health
officials Wednesday praised the decision of Woonsocket-based CVS Caremark
to phase out tobacco sales at its more than 7,600 drugstores nationwide.
York
County anti-tobacco group cheers CVS decision
Lake Wylie Pilot - February 5, 2014
“People will go elsewhere to buy cigarettes, pay more for them,”
Nichols said. ... South Carolina cigarette tax recently earned an “F”
grade from the America Lung ...
Tobacco
Free Hall County praises CVS announcement
KHAS-TV - February 5, 2014
Wednesday morning CVS made a shocking announcement. As of October 1
the pharmacy powerhouse is pulling all tobacco products out of their
76-hundred ...
Taunton
area shop owners say CVS tobacco ban means better business for local
stores
Wicked Local (MA) - February 5, 2014
Local convenience store and smoke shop owners are pleased that CVS is
will soon stop selling tobacco products. But they also say the drugstore
giant has never posed much of a competitive threat in terms of cigarette,
cigar and loose tobacco prices.
Local
doctors applaud CVS decision on tobacco products
FOX 8 News WVUE - February 5, 2014
"About 6,500 Louisianans die each year from smoking-related diseases,
and I think, interestingly, 1,000 non-smokers in Louisiana will die
this year from ...
UCSF
doc's role in CVS decision to stop selling tobacco
Bay Area BizTalk, San Francisco Business Times – February 5, 2014
...roughly 150 are listed on a company web site, including eight in
Oakland, 10 in San Francisco and 20 in San Jose. Smokers in California
wrack up an estimated $18.1 billion annually in economic costs, and
smoking …
The
American Pharmacists Association Applauds CVS Caremark's Commitment
to Stop Sale of Tobacco Products
PRNewswire - February 5, 2014
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Pharmacists
Association (APhA) applauds CVS Caremark's announcement that it will
stop selling tobacco products in its more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores.
By removing tobacco products from its shelves, CVS Caremark joins a
growing movement among health care providers to limit access to tobacco
products.
CVS
ban on cigarettes could cut smoking rates
USA TODAY – February 5, 2014
The decision by CVS to stop selling cigarettes could help to cut smoking
... says Bronson Frick, spokesman for Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
UPDATE
3-CVS becomes first big US drugstore chain to drop tobacco
Reuters – February 5, 2014
Experts noted that healthcare organizations and advocacy groups such
as Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights have been urging pharmacies for
...
CVS
to discontinue all tobacco by October 1
dailyfreepress.com – February 5, 2014
Cynthia Hallett, executive director of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights,
said this will make a significant difference with how many people smoke,
and says ...
Duane
Reade, Walgreens face heat on cigs
Crain's New York Business - February 5, 2014
CVS Caremark Corp. said Wednesday that it would stop selling tobacco
products, prompting calls on its competitors to drop cigarettes, as
well.
Obama
praises CVS's decision to stop selling cigarettes
Washington Post (blog) - February 5, 2014
President Obama is praising the CVS retail chain's decision, announced
Wednesday morning, to stop selling cigarettes at its stores.
"As one of the largest retailers and pharmacies in America, CVS
Caremark sets a powerful example, and today’s decision will help
advance my administration’s efforts to reduce tobacco-related deaths,
cancer, and heart disease, as well as bring down health care costs –
ultimately saving lives and protecting untold numbers of families from
pain and heartbreak for years to come," Obama said. "I congratulate
– and thank – the CEO of CVS Caremark, Larry Merlo, the board
of directors, and all who helped make a choice that will have a profoundly
positive impact on the health of our country."
CVS
Plans to End Sales of Tobacco Products by Oct. 1
New York Times - February 5, 2014
CVS/Caremark, the country's largest drugstore chain, announced on Wednesday
that it planned to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco ...
CVS Caremark, No. 2 drugstore chain, will end all tobacco sales
Los Angeles Times - February 5, 2014
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cvs-caremark-cigarettes-tobacco-20140205,0,6663810.story#axzz2sT43LMyn
WASHINGTON CVS Caremark, the nation's second-largest drugstore chain,
plans to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its ...
CVS
stores to stop selling tobacco
CNN.com February 5, 2014
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 it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products
at its CVS/pharmacy stores by October 1.
Kicking
The Habit: CVS To Stop Selling Tobacco, Sacrificing $2 Billion In Sales
For Public Health
Forbes - February 5, 2014
CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the United States, will stop selling
cigarettes and other tobacco products in all of its 7,600 stores by
October 1, its parent company CVS Caremark CVS -1.54% 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. Weve 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.
Weve come to the decision that cigarettes have no place in an environment
where healthcare is being delivered.
Worcester,
other Mass. cities already ban tobacco in pharmacies
Worcester Telegram - February 5, 2014
The decision by CVS Caremark to stop selling tobacco products at its
drugstores nationwide won't change things at many of its outlets in
Massachusetts. That's because Boston, Worcester and dozens of other
communities in the Bay State already have prohibitions on the sale of
cigarettes and other tobacco products at pharmacies.
Can
CVS Justify Its No-Tobacco Decision Beyond the Great PR?
Forbes February 5, 2014
CVS may not be the first to stop selling tobacco products, but the drugstore
chains announcement is big for no other reason than the sheer size of
the companys tobacco business. CVS estimates it will lose roughly $2
billion in revenues from tobacco users on an annual basis. The chain
anticipates the decision will impact 2014 earnings somewhere between
six and nine cents per share.
CVS
calls it quits: No more tobacco products
USA TODAY - February 5, 2014
CVS sells $2 billion in tobacco and tobacco-related products a year,
or 3% of overall ... CVS officials said selling cigarettes while promoting
wellness doesn't make sense. ... Just this week, the American Cancer
Society launched an advertising ...
Walgreens:
We Still Sell Cigarettes
Huffington Post - February 5, 2014
CVS may be kicking its cigarette habit, but one of its major competitors
isn't easing up on its addiction so quickly. After learning that CVS
plans to stop selling all tobacco products by October, we reached out
to Walgreen Co., the largest retail drug chain in the U.S., to ask if
it had similar plans. Here's what a representative wrote in an e-mail:
We have been evaluating this product category for some time to balance
the choices our customers expect from us, with their ongoing health
needs. We will continue to evaluate the choice of products our customers
want, while also helping to educate them and providing smoking cessation
products and alternatives that help to reduce the demand for tobacco
products.
Should
More Stores Stop Selling Cigarettes Like CVS? [POLL]
New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio - February 5, 2014
The war on tobacco continues with CVS firing the latest salvo. The drug
store chain has decided to stop selling cigarettes and tobacco products
earning high ...
Poll:
Should CVS Sell Cigarettes?
Reston Now - February 5, 2014
Their pharmacists deliver flu shots and other immunizations and basic
services. ... it can no longer sell cigarettes at places where it also
provides health care.
CVS
Tobacco Ban: Walgreens Co Trapped In PR Haze As Customers Demand Smoke-Free
Drugstores
International Business Times - February 5, 2014
Almost immediately after CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE:CVS), the nations
No. 2 drugstore chain, announced that it will stop selling tobacco products,
the eyes of many discerning consumers turned to No. 1. Across social
media, consumers have been fervently calling on Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG)
to follow CVS unprecedented lead. On Wednesday, health-conscious social
media users descended on the Walgreens Facebook page, asking the Deerfield,
Ill., company to commit to a smokeless future at its 8,500-plus locations.
Some avowed Walgreens customers threatened to start shopping at its
smoke-free competitor if their requests for a tobacco ban are not heeded.
I hope I dont have to pass by my corner Walgreens to support CVS now,
wrote one Facebook user.
Paradox
of Cigarette Sales in Pharmacies Focus of New Movement
UCSF News Services - February 5, 2014
Pharmacies, focused on the health and wellbeing of their customers,
have long been saddled with a paradox: they sell cigarettes and other
tobacco products, even though tobacco use is the nations leading cause
of preventable death. In a Viewpoint article published online today
in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the authors
say that selling tobacco products is clearly antithetical to the role
of pharmacies, especially as pharmacies expand their role as an integral
part of the nations health care system.
CVS's
Decision To Ban Tobacco Means Next To Nothing... For Now
Business Insider - February 5, 2014
Smokers who can't buy their cigarettes from CVS will likely go elsewhere
for their ... CVS is the first major U.S. pharmacy to ban tobacco, and
the move may spur ...
CVS
to become first major US drugstore to drop cigarettes
Reuters - February 5, 2014
CVS Caremark Corp said on Wednesday that it would stop selling tobacco
products at its 7,600 stores by October, becoming the first U.S. drugstore
chain to take cigarettes off the shelf. Matthew Myers, president of
the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which advocates for tobacco control,
said that CVS's announcement could drive momentum for declining tobacco
use. Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, chief executive officer of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, which focuses on public health, called CVS'
decision "a bold, precedent-setting move because it acknowledges
that pharmacies have become healthcare settings."
VIDEO:
CVS Caremark to Stop Selling Tobacco Products at all CVS/pharmacy Locations
PR Newswire - February 5, 2014
Decision underscores CVS Caremarks role in the evolving health care
marketplace Company pledges to help millions of Americans quit smoking
through robust national campaign ...
AUDIO:
CVS Kicking the Habit: Pharmacy Chain to Stop Selling Tobacco Products
The Takeaway (NPR) - February 5, 2014
GUESTS: Michael Eriksen ... says today's announcement by CVS is "a
game changer."
CVS
to Stop Selling Cigarettes
Pharmacy Chain Says Tobacco Products Don't Fit With Push as Health-Care
Provider
The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition February 5, 2014
CVS, the nation's second-largest pharmacy chain, said Wednesday that
it would stop selling all cigarettes and tobacco products nationwide
by October, saying they have no place in a drugstore company that is
trying to become more of a health-care provider. The move is a bold
and expensive one for CVS, a unit of Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS Caremark
Corp. CVS -0.70% It reflects a major push by retail pharmacies away
from simply dispensing drugs toward a more integrated role of providing
basic health services ...
Adams
divided on proposed restrictions on tobacco sales
Berkshire Eagle - January 30, 2014
ADAMS -- Proposed restrictions on tobacco and e-cigarettes ignited a
spirited debate at a public hearing Wednesday night, but the Board of
Health opted to continue to consider the measure rather than taking
a final vote on the law.
Public
hearing on pharmacy tobacco sales ban slated in Adams
North Adams Transcript - January 9, 2014
ADAMS -- The Board of Health agreed Wednesday night on a final draft
of new tobacco product regulations that would ban the sale of tobacco
in pharmacies.
Adams
Board of Health close to approval of tobacco regulations
North Adams Transcript - October 10, 2013
ADAMS -- The Board of Health moved closer Wednesday to finalizing draft
regulations that would ban the sale of tobacco in pharmacies and restrict
the sale of tobacco-related products to minors. The board is still seeking
clarification on one clause in the proposal, but has otherwise agreed
on the new regulation. It hopes to receive legal advice by its next
meeting on Nov. 6 and approve the proposal. The board will subsequently
schedule a public hearing for community input.
Sudbury
Board of Health passes new tobacco regulations
MetroWest Daily News - October 10, 2013
SUDBURY The Board of Health Tuesday night passed new tobacco regulations
for the town that will prohibit the sale of tobacco products at local
pharmacies. The new guidelines, which the board developed with the help
of the Massachusetts Health Officers Association's Tobacco Control Program,
will go into effect at the start of next year. They still must be officially
signed by board members at their next meeting in November.
Pharmacies
in Adams could lose right to sell smokes
North Adams Transcript - October 4, 2013
Pharmacies in Adams could lose right to sell smokes. By Adam Shanks,
North ... The association is also against the sale of e-cigarettes to
minors. "[The] current ...
Putnam
Legislators Nix Tobacco Ban
Hudson Valley Reporter - October 2, 2013
MAHOPAC, NY- Legislators voted 7-2 Wednesday night to snuff out a controversial
ban on tobacco sales in county pharmacies. Legislators Sam Oliverio
Jr. and Barbara Scuccimarra were the sole supporters of the ban, which
would have prohibited the sale of tobacco products in any pharmacy or
store which contains one. Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Alan
Beals drafted the legislation, arguing that places of wellness and healing
should not sell products which kill so many of their users. Pharmacies
traditionally have been trusted points of care and wellness, Beals said
when the ... When used as directed, cigarettes kill half of their users.
... to ban the sale of those products from any retail establishment
that has a pharmacy. ...
Putnam
Votes On Pharmacy Tobacco Ban This Week
Hudson Valley Reporter - September 29, 2013
He said similar bans are becoming more and more common, and it would
be an ... "When used as directed, cigarettes kill half of their
users. It seems to me it's important to ban the sale of those products
from any retail ... Sixty-two percent of the residents we polled are
in favor of banning the sale of tobacco in pharmacies." ...
Putnam
Moves Closer To Banning Tobacco In Pharmacies
Hudson Valley Reporter - September 11, 2013
Several legislators argued that banning cigarette sales in pharmacies
and ... are separate issues, and the ban may not have the impact legislators
hoped it ... “When we banned smoking in the workplace in the 1990s,
we were one of ... 62% of the residents we polled are in favor of banning
the sale of tobacco in pharmacies.
Adams
Health Officials Closer To New Smoking Rules
iBerkshires.com - September 4, 2013
ADAMS, Mass. The Board of Health is inching closer to establishing tougher
smoking regulations. The board took up smoking regulations last year
to combat what it sees as an expanding tobacco market particularly with
the growth of popularity with electronic cigarettes, small cigarillos
and flavored products. On Wednesday, the members again reviewed the
work they began with a draft crafted by D.J. Wilson, the tobacco control
director for the Massachusetts Municipal Association. With just three
questions outstanding, the board hopes to hold a public hearing in the
coming months before presenting them for adoption. The biggest question
is banning the sale of tobacco products from health organizations and
pharmacies. Member Allen Mendel said he was concerned about implementing
a ban because Big Y has a pharmacy and could lose its ability to sell
them. However, board members did agree that they want to implement bans
on smoking in town-owned parks, beaches and playgrounds but stopped
short of banning smoking from all municipal properties. Instead, they
are looking to implement a 15-foot buffer zone from any municipal building.
The board considered banning smoking from all municipal property but
that could include sidewalks, which Mendel said "was going too
far." "Nobody should have to walk through a cloud of smoke
to get to the front door of a property," Chairwoman Patricia Clairmont
said, later agreeing that 15-feet should be sufficient for somebody
to walk around a smoker to access the building. The board also opted
against banning smoking in private clubs, citing that there is only
one private club that allows smoking now and it is not a problem.
Get
tobacco out of our pharmacies
The Journal News | LoHud.com - September 2, 2013
Re Pharmacy tobacco ban studied; Putnam legislators look to decrease
smoking rates, July 21 article: Recent comments comparing me to New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a busy body and a nanny are ridiculous.
I am a doctor. For more than 30 years I have guided and advised my patients
to live healthier, more productive lives. Today my responsibility extends
to all the residents of Putnam County.
Amherst
board of health restricts tobacco sales
WSHM-TV - August 1, 2013
It will soon be more difficult to buy cigarettes in town, as the board
of health passed new rules on Wednesday as to what businesses can sell
tobacco.
Putnam
Considers Banning Cigarette Sales at Pharmacies ($$)
The Putnam County Courier (subscription) - July 25, 2013
Putnam Considers Banning Cigarette Sales at Pharmacies. ERIC GROSS.
Cigarette smokers may soon find themselves without having the opportunity
to ...
Albany
Co. lawmaker pushing to ban sale of cigarettes in pharmacies
WXXA - July 25, 2013
ALBANY, N.Y. Ten years have passed since the passage of the smoking
ban inside of bars and restaurants in the state of New York, and now
an Albany County lawmaker is also pushing a new proposal to ban the
sale of cigarettes in pharmacies within the county.
GUEST
OPINION: A pharmacy is no place for cigarettes
Cdparentpages - July 5, 2013
A CVS pharmacy in Lenox, Mass., displays high-priced items, such as
electronics, behind the ... voiced their support for ending the sale
of tobacco in pharmacies. ... where 56 communities have already prohibited
tobacco sales in pharmacies. ... candy and toys that are often placed
near cigarette and spit tobacco displays.
Amherst
Board of Health looking to ban cigarette sales in pharmacies
MassLive.com - June 11, 2013
The Amherst Board of Health is considering banning the sale of cigarettes
at ... Overall, 63 communities have banned these sales, said D.J. Wilson,
tobacco ...
Local
pharmacies recognized for putting health first
Evening Observer-May 29, 2013
Representatives from the local Bureau of Tobacco Control programs will
be visiting pharmacies in Chautau-qua and Cattaraugus coun-ties that
do not sell ...
Pharmacy
Sales of Tobacco
New York Times - May 7, 2013
I suggest banning all tobacco sales in pharmacies. Pharmacies that supposedly
desire to promote the health of our citizens sell cigarettes, and the
cigarette ...
Main
Head
The Spectator May 1, 2013
SOMERSET Marilyn Edge, the town's tobacco control coordinator, asked
the Board of Health last Wednesday to consider changes in Somerset's
tobacco regulations, including not allowing pharmacies to sell tobacco
products. Of the 13 communities where Ms. Edge is the tobacco control
coordinator, she said seven have banned the sale of tobacco at pharmacies.
She said in one town where there was not a regulation banning tobacco
from pharmacies, citizens got a petition going and a pharmacy in that
town decided to not sell tobacco anymore because of that concern from
the community.
Education
puts out tobacco
Gloversville Leader-Herald - April 19, 2013
Project ACTION Tobacco-Free Coalition in Hamilton, Fulton, Montgomery
counties educates community leaders and the community about store tobacco-products
displays, tobacco marketing in stores, and pharmacies and grocery stores
about ending the sale of tobacco. Education on tobacco products in pharmacies
and stores reduces the number and location of stores that sell tobacco.
Reducing the number of stores that sell ...
Sudbury
Board of Health to look at updating tobacco regulations
MetroWest Daily News - April 16, 2013
SUDBURY The Board of Health will be looking into updating its outdated
tobacco regulations, after a resident brought the idea to its attention.
Teresa Curran said she originally contacted the board to see if it would
be willing to join the dozens of other communities in the state that
have banned the sale of tobacco at pharmacies. After a discussion of
the proposal at the board's meeting last Tuesday, however, members agreed
to look more broadly at the town's entire set of tobacco regulations,
which have not been updated since 1998, said Health Director Robert
Leupold.
Should
Falmouth Ban Tobacco Sales in Pharmacies?
Patch.com-April 3, 2013
... ban tobacco sales at area pharmacies, according to the Falmouth
Enterprise. The ban would include cigarettes, cigars, loose tobacco
and even e-cigarettes ...
Falmouth
Board of Health Considers Ban on Tobacco Sales in Pharmacies
CapeNews.net - April 2, 2013
Later this month, the public will get an opportunity to weigh in on
a Falmouth Board of Health proposal to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies.
“You have something ...
Tobacco
products seem odd in pharmacy
Gloversville Leader Herald – April 1, 2013
… The next time you are in a pharmacy, look behind the counter
and ask yourself - why is a pharmacy selling cigarettes? Or any tobacco
product? People go to pharmacies to improve their health. And yet pharmacies
are selling the only consumer product that, if used as intended, will
kill at least one-half of its long-term users. Of the large, chain drug
stores in New York state, 99 percent are licensed to sell tobacco. …
Bellingham
may ban sale of cigarettes, tobacco products at local ...
Milford Daily News - February 21, 2013
BELLINGHAM The Board of Health is considering several new amendments
to its tobacco bylaw, most notably prohibiting pharmacies from selling
tobacco products and banning cigarette smoking at town-owned parks and
fields. …
'Prescription
for Change' takes on sale of tobacco products in ...
Evening Sun (subscription) - February 12, 2013
NORWICH – In the ongoing battle to ward off the use of tobacco
products, Smoke Free New York State is undertaking a new campaign to
restrict the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies that sell them,
including those in Chenango County. …
Tobacco
snuffed out at drug stores
Barnstable Patriot-January 16, 2013
The Barnstable Board of Health voted unanimously at its Tuesday meeting
to ban the sale of tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes
at all pharmacies ...
Board
of Health Approves Ban on Tobacco Sales at Pharmacies
Patch.com-January 16, 2013
The ban includes the sale of cigarettes, chewing tobacco and cigars.
Electronic cigarettes were not included in the ban but could be added
later. ...
Butt
out of Barnstable drugstores?
Capecodonline - January 14, 2013
Tobacco users may soon have to bypass local pharmacies in their search
for a fix. The Barnstable Board of Health is expected to approve a ban
on the sale of tobacco products during its regular meeting Tuesday,
making it the fourth town on Cape Cod to do so. …
Drug
store tobacco sale ban proposed in Barnstable
Wicked Local - January 10, 2013
The Barnstable board of health is considering a ban on the sale of tobacco
products at pharmacies and will hold a public hearing and likely vote
on the issue during its Jan. 15 meeting. …
SPITZ:
Ashland snuffs out drugstores' cigarette sales
MetroWest (MA) Daily News - January 9, 2013
…As of Jan. 1, Ashland pulled the plug on pharmacies selling smokes.
Actually, it's more than just cigarettes. As in Southborough, Walpole
and other communities that have gone this route, the new rules restrict
"the sale of tobacco products and nicotine delivery products at
educational and health care institutions,'' with drugstores being health
care institutions, schools not likely to be selling cigarettes in any
official capacity, and an exception made for FDA-approved nicotine delivery
products designed to help you kick the habit. …
Dartmouth
ban on tobacco sales takes effect
SouthCoastToday.com - January 2, 2013
In the spirit of, "You want something right, do it yourself,"
a growing number of local communities have given up waiting for the
Legislature or Congress to do something about smoking. Yesterday, New
Year's Day, a ban on tobacco sales at pharmacies and other health-related
shops took effect in Dartmouth. New Bedford and Fall River have had
such a ban since last January, and Westport signed up in October. …
Melrose
considers banning tobacco sales at pharmacies
Boston.com - December 14, 2012
Officials in the city of Melrose will considering banning the sale of
cigarettes and other tobacco products in pharmacies, according to city
records. The Board of ...
Ban
on pharmacy tobacco sales likely by Barnstable Board of Health
Cape Cod Times (subscription) - December 14, 2012
After more than a year of discussion, the Barnstable Board of Health
expects to approve a ban on tobacco sales at all retail locations that
contain pharmacies at ...
Ban
on pharmacy tobacco sales likely
Barnstable Patriot - December 12, 2012
After more than a year of discussion, the Barnstable Board of Health
expect to approve a ban on tobacco sales at all retail locations that
contain pharmacies at its Jan. 15 meeting. …
Buffalo-area
pharmacists say no to tobacco sales in pharmacies
Medical Xpress - October 30, 2012
More than 75 percent of Western New York pharmacists say tobacco sales
in pharmacies should be legally banned, according to research conducted
by Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and the University at Buffalo
(UB), published in BMC Research Notes. The study found that more than
86% of pharmacists surveyed would prefer to work in a pharmacy that
does not sell tobacco products. …
Westport
Board of Health passes new tobacco regulation
New Bedford (MA) Standard-Times - October 17, 2012
On August 27, the Westport Board of Health passed a regulation entitled,
"The Sale and Use of Tobacco Products and Nicotine Delivery Products".
… There were several issues addressed in the regulation. It banned
the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies now defined as Health Care
Institutions under the regulation. … Another part of the regulation
addressed the sale of Nicotine Delivery Products such as electronic
cigarettes known as e-cigarettes. Prior to the implementation of this
regulation people under the age of 18 could legally purchase these products
in Westport. …
SouthCoast
cities and towns join growing roster to ban tobacco ...
SouthCoastToday.com - October 15, 2012
Westport has joined a tide of communities snuffing-out pharmacy tobacco
sales in SouthCoast and beyond. … Pharmacy tobacco sales send the
wrong message, according to Coykendall, who said smokers can still buy
cigarettes at convenience stores and gas stations. …
Tobacco
sales banned in Fairhaven pharmacies beginning Nov. 1
SouthCoastToday.com - October 5, 2012
An ordinance passed by the Board of Health last month will stop stores
with pharmacies in them from selling cigarettes and other tobacco products
beginning Nov. 1. …
South
Windsor Town Council Majority Against Banning Tobacco Sales in Pharmacies
South Windsor (CT) Patch.com - September 18, 2012
… “A pharmacy is a place you should go to get better, not
get cancer,” Anwar said during his presentation. “It is physically
wrong to sell cigarettes in the same place. But the Republican majority
on the Town Council and members of the public who weighed in on the
discussion said that the council either should not: 1. infringe on one’s
personal responsibility from refraining from or choosing to use tobacco;
2. single out CVS from engaging in legally sanction commercial trade;
or 3. overreach in its responsibilities as a local governing body. …
South
Windsor Council Hears Proposal To Ban Tobacco Sales At ...
Hartford Courant - September 17, 2012
A proposal to ban the sale of tobacco products at pharmacies in town
produced a lively exchange by town council members Monday night. …
South
Windsor Town Council to Discuss Prohibiting Pharmacies From Selling
Cigarettes
Patch.com - September 17, 2012
The Town Council will debate, among other things, the issues of corporate
responsibility and personal choice tonight at its regular meeting tonight
when it discusses the possibility of passing an ordinance banning of
the sale of tobacco products at CVS Pharmacy. …
Council
to discuss ban on cigarette sales in local pharmacies
Journal Inquirer (CT) - September 12, 2012
Council to discuss ban on cigarette sales in local pharmacies ... discussions
Monday on banning the sale of tobacco products — particularly cigarettes
— from ...
Tobacco
sales banned in Watertown health care institutions
Wicked Local - August 24, 2012
Watertown pharmacies will soon be banned from selling tobacco products.
The Watertown Board of Health voted unanimously on August 15 to restrict
the sale of tobacco products at all health care institutions, including
supermarkets that operate pharmacies. …
Smoker
and Non-Smokers Respond to New Cigarette Sale Ban at ...
Patch.com (PA) - August 15, 2012
Smokers have four fewer places to buy cigarettes in Reading: CVS, two
Rite Aid stores and Walgreens. The Board of Health banned the sale of
tobacco products ...
TELL
US: Was Ban on Tobacco at Pharmacies the Right Decision?
Salem (MA) Patch.com - July 26, 2012
On Tuesday, the Board of Health voted to ban tobacco sales (that includes
cigarettes) at pharmacies beginning Sept. 1, according to the Salem
News. The outlet ...
Massachusetts
town bans tobacco sales at pharmacies
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - July 25, 2012
SALEM, Mass. - This tourist-dependent Massachusetts town has banned
the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in drug stores. …
Tobacco
sales nixed at pharmacies
The Salem News (MA)- July 25, 2012
More than a decade ago, Salem was the first on the North Shore to ban
smoking in ... to prohibit the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco
products in pharmacies, ... the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies
or are in the process of imposing bans. ... Dogs banned at Salem's outdoor
dining spots ...
Town
mulls ban on pharmacy tobacco sales
Journal Inquirer (CT) July 18, 2012
Town mulls ban on pharmacy tobacco sales ... ways to ban tobacco products,
particularly cigarettes, from being sold in local pharmacies. ...
Councilor
Seeks to Ban Cigarette Sales in South Windsor Pharmacies
Patch.com (CT) - July 18, 2012
"My hope is to restrict pharmacies from selling tobacco-based
products because they ... to excess, can lead to health problems, and
tobacco-related products like cigarettes. ... 25 communities have banned
the sale of tobacco products from pharmacies and ... Related Topics:
South Windsor Government and cigarette bans ...
POLL:
Middleboro bans tobacco sales in pharmacies
Milford (MA) Daily News - Jun 30, 2012
The town's latest attempt to stop bad behavior means three local businesses
will be barred from selling cigarettes or any other tobacco product
as of Sunday, following a vote by selectmen. …
Middleboro
bans tobacco sales in pharmacies
Enterprise News – June 30, 2012
Three businesses in town will be barred from selling cigarettes and
other tobacco products as of Sunday. …
Tobacco
sales banned in Pittsfield stores with pharmacies
Berkshire Eagle - June 8, 2012
Add Pittsfield to the growing list of Massachusetts communities that
have banned tobacco sales at stores with pharmacies. …
Cohasset
stores with pharmacies can still sell cigarettes
The Patriot Ledger - May 22, 2012
Cohasset's three stores with pharmacies – CVS, Walgreens and Stop
& Shop – can continue selling cigarettes and other tobacco
products, voters decided ... By rejecting the board of health’s
proposal, residents also voted down a ban on the use of electronic cigarettes
in public places where traditional cigarettes are prohibited, including
business offices and restaurants. …
Cohasset
voters to decide on e-cigarette ban
The Patriot Ledger - May 21, 2012
Voters will define the legal use of e-cigarettes when town meeting
reconvenes at 7 p.m. Monday in the middle/high school gymnasium. …
Health officials are also asking residents to ban the sale of e-cigarettes
to minors and to prohibit stores with pharmacies from selling tobacco
products. …
Board
of Health snuffs smokes sale ban
Wicked Local - May 11, 2012
After taking public feedback and their own official capacity into account,
the North Andover Board of Health has backed away from banning cigarette
sales at pharmacies throughout town. …
Banning
pharmacy tobacco sales still on board's mind
Barnstable Patriot - May 11, 2012
Barnstable's board of health still has a ban on tobacco sales at pharmacies
on its radar, but there's nothing immediately before the three-member
board. …
Cohasset
may limit sales of most tobacco products
Boston.com - May 10, 2012
He said that when faced with a choice between getting rid of a pharmacy
or tobacco sales, all the stores have chosen to get rid of cigarettes
and the like. … The board also has proposed adding electronic cigarettes
to the list of tobacco products already banned from use in public places
in town. …
Saugus
health panel hears about proposed tobacco ban
Lynn (MA) Daily Item - May 10, 2012
Saugus resident Bill Kramich said the Board of Health's proposed tobacco
regulation that would ban the sale of tobacco in pharmacies along with
the sale of blunt wraps and small cigars less than $2.50 would hurt
the town economy. …
Middleboro
considers tobacco sales ban for pharmacies
Enterprise (MA) News - May 2, 2012
Selectmen on Monday reviewed proposed changes in the town’s tobacco
regulations that would ban the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies
and increase fines for tobacco violations. ...
Tri-Town
Health Board Bans Tobacco Sales In Pharmacies
iBerkshires.com - May 1, 2012
LEE, Mass. Tri-Town Health Department Director James J. Wilusz
announced at a public hearing Monday that the Tri-Town Board of Health,
which represents Lee, Lenox and Stockbridge, amended its local tobacco
regulations. In regards to the local regulation, "Restricting the
Sale of Tobacco Products and Nicotine Delivery Products," pharmacies
will not be allowed to sell tobacco products starting on July 1. …
Banning
pharmacy tobacco sales still on board's mind
Barnstable Patriot - April 27, 2012
Barnstable's board of health still has a ban on tobacco sales at pharmacies
on its radar, but there's nothing immediately before the three-member
board. …
Board
of Health to ask drugstores to stop selling cigarettes
Lawrence (MA) Eagle-Tribune, 2012-04-27
NORTH ANDOVER The Board of Health has opted for friendly persuasion
rather than coercion on the question of banning the sale of cigarettes
in pharmacies. The board voted unanimously last night to send a letter
to the pharmacies that operate in North Andover asking them to consider
discontinuing the sale of tobacco products. …
City
eyes tougher public smoking rules
Lawrence (MA) Eagle Tribune - Apr 21, 2012
Those scenarios would end if the city's Health Board adopts new public
rules proposed for Haverhill. The board is considering regulations aimed
at protecting the public from second-hand cigarette smoke by limiting
where people can light up. … Under Haverhill's proposed regulations,
pharmacies would no longer be able to sell tobacco products. This would
impact eight businesses in the city: Two Rite Aids, two Walgreens and
four CVS stores. "Pharmacies are health stores," Carbone said.
Smoking would also be banned near the entrances to public buildings,
including bars, taverns, and sit-down and fast-foot restaurants. Smoking
would be prohibited near the entryway, open window, staffed drive-up
or drive-through window, and the smoke-free area must be large enough
so that second-hand smoke does not enter the building or an outdoor
deck, or affect the air quality for patrons or employees, Carbone said.
The board also wants to make it harder for young people to buy tobacco
products. Stores would not be allowed to sell single cigars priced at
less than $2.50 each, could not sell electronic cigarettes to minors,
…
Board
eyes ban on tobacco sales at pharmacies
Health panel may consider regulation at next meeting
Lawrence (MA) Eagle-Tribune, 2012-03-30
Paul Tennant
NORTH ANDOVER Right now, you can go to a pharmacy and buy life-saving
medicines, such as Lipitor or similar drugs that lower cholesterol.
…
Byrnes:
Tobacco products do not belong in Milford's pharmacies
MetroWest Daily News - March 30, 2012
Re: Milford Board of Health’s apparent decision to look into the
economic effects of banning the sales of all tobacco products at Milford
Pharmacies. ... into the economic effects of banning the sales of all
tobacco products at Milford Pharmacies. ... And they are called cigarettes
(or cancer sticks). …
Butts
out or 'butt' out
Community Advocate - March 30, 2012
Region – About 20 years ago, Bouvier Pharmacy in Marlborough made
the decision to ban the sale of tobacco products. Although it likely
cut into their ...
Bourne
health board balks at ban on drug-store tobacco sales
Wicked Local (MA), March 30, 2012
The Bourne Board of Health this week frowned on a county recommendation
that the sale of tobacco products be banned in health-care facilities,
notably pharmacies. …
Milford
wants to hear from pharmacies on tobacco proposal
Wicked Local - March 27, 2012
The Board of Health last night asked Health Officer Paul Mazzuchelli
to seek feedback from stores hurt by a possible ban on the sale of tobacco
products at pharmacies. …
Nichols
makes courageous stand
Albany Times Union - March 26, 2012
That you publicly state Albany County Legislator Tim Nichols is self-indulgent
in his proposed ban of tobacco products in pharmacies is terrible. …
Springfield
Public Health Council bans sales of tobacco products at drug stores,
supermarkets with pharmacies
MassLive.com - March 22, 2012
…The new regulation defines drug stores and stores with pharmacies
as “health care institutions,” and refers to the sale of tobacco
in those stores as ...
Panel
urges pharmacy tobacco sales ban
Boston.com - March 22, 2012
Boston, Fall River, and Worcester are among the cities that no longer
permit the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products at pharmacies,
declaring that ...
Proposal
Restricting the Sale of Tobacco Products in Springfield ...
abc40 - February 15, 2012
(WGGB) A proposal by the Springfield Public Health Council calls
for banning the sale of tobacco at health care institutions. Drug stores
and pharmacies ...
Middleboro
youth group asks board to restrict cigarette sales
Wicked Local - February 16, 2012
According to the MYA the sale of tobacco accounts for less than one
percent of sales in pharmacies. Selectmen are joining forces with the
Middleboro Youth ...
MYA
seeks ban on drug stores selling tobacco
Middleboro Gazette - February 16, 2012
By JANE LOPES MIDDLEBORO Pharmacies would be prohibited from
selling cigarettes and other tobacco products if the selectmen approve
a health regulation ...
Cigarette
ban raises other questions about what's good for us
Middleboro Gazette - February 16, 2012
The selectmen have scheduled a public hearing for March 12 on amendments
to the town's tobacco control bylaws that also include a proposed ban
on the sale ...
Middleboro
youth group asks board to restrict cigarette sales
Enterprise (MA) News - February 14, 2012
Selectmen are joining forces with the Middleboro Youth Advocates, which
is seeking a grant to study the increase of drug use in the town and
to amend Board of Health regulations that would ban the sale of cigarettes
in pharmacies. ...
Tobacco
ban in Pittsfield may broaden
Berkshire (MA) Eagle - February 6, 2012
City health officials are considering a ban on tobacco sales at stores
with pharmacies, one of several proposals aimed at keeping youths from
buying cigarettes and other tobacco-related products. … The Board
of Health is reviewing the potential revisions to its tobacco control
... Wilusz said Pittsfield currently can’t prevent someone under
the age of 18 from buying so-called "e-cigarettes," which
deliver the nicotine fix without the tobacco. …
New
smoking rules prohibit tobacco sales at Winchester pharmacies
Wicked Local - January 30, 2012
Fines and penalties for the sale of tobacco products to minors have
also been ... the town's other pharmacy, Winchester Drug, does not sell
cigarettes.
Brookline
to pack fewer cigarettes, sources say
Daily Free Press (subscription) - January 30, 2012
Smokers near Brookline can expect to cut down on cigarettes as the
town prepares to officially remove tobacco products from drug stores
and healthcare ...
Board
still sniffing for Rx tobacco ban
Language to be drafted, brought back
Barnstable (MA) Patriot, 2012-01-20
Written by John Watters
Despite some misgivings by health department staff, the board of health
voted unanimously to proceed with drafting regulations limiting tobacco
sales at pharmacies. …
Springfield
Public Health Council considers tobacco ban in stores with pharmacies
Springfield (MA) Union-News and Sunday Republican, 2012-01-21
Peter Goonan, The Republican
SPRINGFIELD - The city's Public Health Council is considering a regulation
that would ban the sale of tobacco products in stores that have pharmacies,
patterned after a similar law in Boston.
Wareham
to hold a public hearing about tobacco sales
Wicked Local (MA), 2011-11-28
The Board of Health will hold a public hearing on November 30, 2011,
at 6 p.m. about tobacco sales in Wareham. The meeting will be held at
the Wareham Town Hall, 54 Marion Road, Bottom Floor Cafeteria to hear
testimony about amendments to the town's current regulation regarding
tobacco sales. The proposed changes include regulating electronic cigarettes
and Nicotine Delivery Devices like tobacco; banning the sale of tobacco
in health care institutions, including pharmacies; ...
Health
board bans cigarette sales in Lowell pharmacies
Lowell (MA) Sun, 2011-11-11
Sarah Favot
In a recent Board of Health decision, Lowell became one of a handful
of cities and towns in the state to adopt regulations that ban the sale
of tobacco products in health-care institutions, like pharmacies, where
a state licensed pharmacist is on staff. ...
Mass.
health regulators consider ban on tobacco sales in pharmacies
The Boston Globe - Kay Lazar - November 9, 2011
Massachusetts health regulators said today that they will consider
banning the sale of tobacco products at pharmacies across the state.
...
Southborough
tobacco ban concerns retail association
MetroWest Daily News - Brad Petrishen - October 21, 2011
Kearny said the association doesn't think the regulation is fair because
it doesn't ban tobacco sales town-wide, only at pharmacies. ...
Brookline
selectmen support tobacco pharmacy ban
Wicked Local - Teddy Applebaum - October 19, 2011
... a resolution that would ban tobacco sales at schools and pharmacies.
... the selectmen raised concerns that voting for the tobacco resolution
could open ...
Richard
Feldman: Killer tobacco doesn't fit with pharmacies' mission
Indianapolis Star - Richard Feldman - October 18, 2011
Multiple pharmacist professional organizations oppose tobacco sales
in pharmacies. Research also shows that between 82 and 98 percent of
pharmacists oppose ...
Brookline's
proposed tobacco ban in drug stores raises questions
Wicked Local (MA), 2011-09-28
The town's Advisory Council on Public Health has endorsed a ban on
selling tobacco products at pharmacies and educational institutions,
but one selectman is questioning the wisdom of forcing people bent on
buying a pack of smokes to shop at a liquor store or gas station instead.
...
Neumeyer:
Get cigarettes out of pharmacies
Milford Daily News - August 17, 2011
To that end, I support the Legislature's efforts to ensure that all
health care facilities, including pharmacies, are tobacco free.
Committee
OKs bill banning tobacco product sales at pharmacies
Boston Herald - Colleen Quinn - August 1, 2011
The proposed law would restrict the sale of tobacco products at all
locations where health professionals are employed, including large chain
pharmacies or ...
Judge
dismisses Safeway suit against San Francisco ban on tobacco in stores
with pharmacies
Washington Post, 2011-07-15
Associated Press
A federal judge on Friday found that the city of San Francisco has
a right to ban tobacco sales in stores with pharmacies even if the pharmacy
is not the store's main business. ...
Westwood
Pharmacies to Stop Tobacco Sales
Patch.com - Matt Perkins - June 16, 2011
But after research over time revealed the health issues related to first-,
second- and third-hand smoke, more and more health agencies have stopped
selling tobacco products. "Pharmacies were the last places where
you could still purchase tobacco ...
Keeping
tobacco out of drugstores
Albany Times Union - Carol Demare - May 24, 2011
Marra's Pharmacy in Cohoes, one of a few privately owned drug stores
in the county, stopped selling tobacco products 20 years ago, becoming
the first pharmacy in the county to go tobacco-free, said Cohoes Mayor
John McDonald III, owner of the pharmacy ...
POLITO/GERACE:
100 Reasons Why CVS Should Stop Selling Cigarettes
whyquit.com, 2011-05-20
This list was composed by Terence A. Gerace, PhD and John R. Polito,
JD
Today, May 20, 2011, marks the one year anniversary of CVS drug store
protests by the CVS Sells Poison Project. It's time to turn up the heat.
Following this 100 reasons list you'll find an invitation to protest
in front of your neighborhood CVS store. Together, we can and will motivate
CVS to stop selling cigarettes. We hope you'll consider participation
in what may someday be seen as one of America's greatest grassroots
public health victories ever. ...
Westford
tobacco sales ban pinches neighboring towns
Lowell (MA) Sun, 2011-05-16
Ed Hannan
As Westford tobacco users prepare for July 1, the day they can no longer
purchase tobacco products in pharmacies, health departments in surrounding
communities are deciding how to proceed. ...
Silver
City Teen Center goes in front of Taunton School Committee to seek tobacco
products ban in stores with pharmacies
Taunton Daily Gazette - Gerry Tuoti - May 9, 2011
Members of the Silver City Teen Center attended a recent School Committee
meeting to seek support for their efforts to ban local stores with pharmacies
from carrying tobacco products, but the committee has yet to make a
decision on the ...
Drug
store tobacco bans gain traction
Boston (MA) Globe, 2011-04-24
Jennette Barnes Globe Correspondent
The pace of Massachusetts cities and towns banning tobacco sales at
pharmacies appears to be accelerating: Of nine such bans that have taken
effect since early 2009, four began this year, and more are under consideration.
...
Sharon
Health Board Narrowly Defeats Pharmacy Tobacco Ban
Patch.com - Michael Gelbwasser - April 20, 2011
A one-vote margin has defeated a proposed ban on tobacco sales by Sharon
pharmacies and other health care institutions. The board of health recently
voted 3-2 against implementing the ban in Sharon, ...
CMA
Supports San Francisco Tobacco Ordinance
PublicCEO.com - Louis Dettorre - April 18, 2011
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera motioned on Friday to dismiss
a lawsuit by Safeway challenging an ordinance banning tobacco sales
in stores that have a pharmacy. The California Medical Association,
representing nearly 35000 physicians, ...
Safeway
Challenges SF Tobacco Ban
San Francisco (CA) Bay Citizen, 2011-04-15
Annette Fuentes*April 15, 2011 4:11 p.m. *In Health
The legal skirmish over tobacco sales in San Francisco stores moved
into another round as City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a motion in
federal district court on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit by supermarket
chain Safeway, which seeks to overturn the city's ban on selling tobacco
products in stores that also have pharmacies. ...
Worcester
close to new tobacco laws
NECN - April 13, 2011
Worcester is close to becoming the ninth city in the state to ban the
sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in pharmacies and drug
stores. After weeks of debate, Tuesday city council members voted to
give initial approval on some controversial ...
Worcester
City Council postpones vote on tobacco ordinance
Worcester Telegram - April 7, 2011
In addition to banning the sale of cigarettes at pharmacies and colleges,
the amendments would regulate advertisements of tobacco products within
the city by prohibiting them in areas where they could be viewed from
public streets, parks, ...
KOTSOPOULOS:
Will Council target tobacco?
Who should sell it remains issue
Worcester (MA) Telegram & Gazette, 2011-04-03
Nick Kotsopoulos / Politics and the City
Given the flak it has received in some quarters, it will be interesting
to see if the City Council proceeds with efforts to have Worcester join
a handful of communities across the state in banning the sale of cigarettes
and other tobacco products by local health care providers, including
chain pharmacies and other drugstores, and colleges. . . . ...
Worcester
council postpones vote on restricting tobacco sales
Worcester (MA) Telegram & Gazette, 2011-03-30
Nick Kotsopoulos TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
A city councilor has temporarily put the brakes on a proposal to ban
the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products by local health care
providers, including chain pharmacies and other drugstores, and local
colleges. ...
TOBACCO
TO NO LONGER BE SOLD IN PHARMACIES BEGINNING APRIL 1
Canada Views - March 31, 2011
The ban on tobacco sales in pharmacies is one of the provisions of The
Tobacco Control Act, 2010. Other provisions included in this legislation
ban smoking in vehicles with children under the age of 16, around doorways,
windows, and air intakes of ...
LETTER:
Banning tobacco products just the tip of the iceberg
Fall River (MA) Herald News, 2011-03-31
Lakeya Almeida Fall River
I understand that cigarettes and other tobacco products are very unhealthy
and dangerous, but taking them off the shelf in just pharmacies isn't
going to really make a difference in the percentages of people using
these products every day. Some people may not even buy their cigarettes
at a store with a pharmacy in it so they will continue to buy them from
wherever they normally get them. ...
Partial
ban on smokes outlined
O'Brien's plan going to council
Worcester (MA) Telegram & Gazette, 2011-03-27
Nick Kotsopoulos TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
WORCESTER -- A move is in the works to have the city join a handful
of communities statewide in banning the sale of cigarettes and other
tobacco products by local health care providers, including chain pharmacies
and other drugstores, and institutions of higher education. ...
Tobacco
must come off pharmacy shelves in 30 days, City Council decides
Fall River (MA) Herald News, 2011-03-23
Michael Holtzman Herald News Staff Reporter
The ban on selling tobacco products in stores with pharmacies will
become city ordinance in 30 days after the City Council's second 5-4
vote to approve the ban Tuesday night. ...
Sharon
Health Board Might Ban Tobacco Sales At Pharmacies
Patch.com - Michael Gelbwasser - Mar 15, 2011
Member Stanley Rosen said he's a pharmacist, and he's aware of “many
independent pharmacies that have taken this approach and chose not to
sell cigarettes.” Health Administrator Linda Rosen said the board
licenses cigarette sales, and six Sharon stores ...
Safeway
says San Francisco tobacco ban should be tossed
Westlaw (Thompson West), 2011-03-17
National grocery store chain Safeway Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit
claiming that San Francisco's ban on the sale of tobacco products in
pharmacies and stores that contain pharmacies is unconstitutional. ...
Oxford
joins anti-tobacco ranks
Worcester Telegram - Ellie Oleson - March 11, 2011
OXFORD — A group of Oxford High School students took on “Big
Tobacco” and won.
The Board of Health has voted to make Oxford the fifth community in
Massachusetts to ban the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies, drugstores
and other “health care institutions.”
The ban went into effect this month and affects CVS, Walmart and Rite
Aid stores in town. Boston, Needham, Newton and Everett have similar
bans on tobacco sales. ...
MELLON:
FROM THE CHAMBER: Government intrusion with Fall River tobacco sale
ban chills trade and commerce
Wicked Local (MA), 2011-03-10
Robert A. Mellion Esq. is the president and CEO of the Fall River Area
Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Enactment of the proposed amendment to Chapter 34 of the Revised Ordinances
to the City of Fall River (1999) would ban the sale of tobacco products
at retail establishments that also operate or maintain a health care
institution within it, such as a pharmacy or drugstore.
As presented, the amendment is a deliberate intervention by local government
officials to institute a restraint against lawful trade and commerce
in Fall River. Government action that obstructs lawful trade cannot
be disregarded as trivial. Nor can it be supported in principal by an
organization that represents the interests of local businesses.
The asserted purpose of the ordinance change is “to facilitate
compliance” with the federal Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco
Control Act (FSPTCA). In reviewing the FSPTCA, it is challenging to
understand how the sale of a tobacco product in the front end of a grocery
store, which incorporates very limited space for a pharmacy in the back
end, conveys a “tacit approval of the purchase and use of tobacco
products.”
It is even harder to fathom how that approval can be distinguished
from other businesses who concurrently sell tobacco products, cold and
flu remedies, diet aids, vitamins or other health related goods or services...
Safeway
Sues Over San Francisco Tobacco Ban
SF Weekly (blog) - Matt Smith - March 10, 2011
Safeway Inc. has sued San Francisco over a law banning tobacco sales
in stores containing pharmacies, claiming that the law gives an unfair
advantage to markets that don't sell prescription drugs.
The lawsuit calls the tobacco ban "arbitrary and capricious,"
and "a denial of Safeway's due process rights under the 14th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution." ...
MIKE
MORAN: Fall River tobacco sale ordinance becomes a white-hot debate
Fall River Herald News - Dave Souza - Mar 9, 2011
This week, we watched as the Fall River City Council advanced an ordinance
that, among other provisions, bans the sale of tobacco products in drugstores,
including the large chains and supermarkets with pharmacies. If the
five councilors in favor of ...
Cigarette
sales ban elicits fiery response from City Council attendee
Fall River Herald News - Mar 9, 2011
His outbursts came as speakers rallied in support of an ordinance that
would ban the sale of tobacco items at pharmacies. A first reading of
the measure was approved by the council Tuesday on a 5-4 vote. A final
vote on the ordinance is scheduled to ...
Fall
River City Council approves first reading of tobacco ban
Fall River Herald News, 2011-03-09
Michael Holtzman Herald News Staff Reporter
Chain stores such as Rite Aid, Walgreens and Shaw's will be banned
from selling cigarettes and other tobacco products if the City Council
follows up Tuesday night's 5-4 vote on a first reading and approves
final passage of the ordinance March 22.
It would affect 16 city chain store outlets. Five independent stores
haven't sold the products in a decade. ...
Busy
Fall River City Council will tackle budget transfers, tobacco sales
rules
Fall River (MA) Herald News, 2011-03-08
Michael Holtzman Herald News Staff Reporter
The City Council Tuesday night will address ordinances for tree maintenance,
prohibition on the sale of tobacco products at drugstores and fee changes
for boat moorings and street vendors. . . . ...
Chatham
citizen crusade against cigarettes in CVS
Wicked Local Chatham - Doreen Leggett - March 3, 2011
David Nixon remembers going into a drug store by his office in Newton
and noticing that the scads of cigarettes and other tobacco products
behind the counter were gone.
When he asked what happened, he was told new regulations, modeled on
those in Boston and San Francisco, outlawed their sale by health care
providers.
Fast forward a couple of months and Nixon, a member of the zoning board
of appeals, was speaking with several representatives of CVS who were
planning to build a new pharmacy side by side with Chatham Village Market.
Nixon said he asked them if they would be willing to voluntarily not
sell tobacco products at their new store, which at the time was wending
through the permitting process. The store is slated to open its doors
in May.
They said they couldn’t make those kinds of decisions, Nixon remembered.
“But they’d bring it back to corporate, as they say,”
he said. “And then nothing happened.”
So he has taken matters into his own hands. Using regulations from
other communities as a template, he brought draft wording before the
board of health last week. When the board finishes fine-tuning the language
that will be added to the town’s smoking regulations, a public
hearing will be held. ...
Fall
River considers banning tobacco sales in pharmacies
Turn to 10.com - Teresa Garofalo - March 2, 2011
Fall River could become the latest community to ban tobacco sales in
drugstores or pharmacies. This week members of the City Council's ...
Fall
River Looking to Ban Tobacco from Pharmacies
WLNE-TV (ABC6) - March 1, 2011
Smokers won't be able to buy tobacco products at pharmacies in Fall
River, soon. The ban is part of a growing movement in the Bay State,
and while many are in favor of it, some store owners say it's hurting
their business. ABC6 Reporter John Guice has ...
Pharmacies:
Promoting Health ... or Cancer?
Change.org, February 8, 2011
Most people walk in to a pharmacy to pick up medication to treat a
disease, or purchase toothpaste or band-aids. In general, consumers
trust pharmacies to sell items related to health. But what if there
was a product on your pharmacy's shelves that was responsible for over
400,00 deaths a year and was the number one cause of preventable death
and disease in the U.S.? Maybe you'd wonder why it hasn't been removed
yet.
Ryan Madanick, a gastroenterologist who specializes in esophageal diseases,
wonders the same thing. He started a petition on Change.org urging two
of the largest chain pharmacies -- CVS and Rite Aid -- to stop selling
a product that directly results in disease and death -- tobacco.
For Madanick, it's not about banning the sale of tobacco products or
imposing new laws. It's not about regulating people's smoking. Instead,
it's the sheer hypocrisy that a place charged with promoting the health
of its patrons would sell something so contradictory to this mission
...
Southborough
tries to prevent teen smoking
Community Advocate - Kathryn Korostoff - January 21, 2011
Southborough - Teen smoking is a bad thing. We all know it. And Southborough
is taking another step to prevent it.
The Southborough Board of Health held a public hearing on a proposed
ban on the sale of all tobacco products in Southborough pharmacies Dec.
15. The Board of Health members: Dr. Louis Fazen (Chair), nurses Nancy
Sacco and Mary Lou Woodford and Public Health Director Paul Pisinski
oversee the office’s daily activities.
Director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association D.J. Wilson was
also in attendance. He supports tobacco control programs in state municipalities.
Wilson opened the meeting by sharing some information from the Massachusetts
Medical Society and its support of tobacco sales restrictions.
At the meeting, the board unanimously amended the town’s tobacco
control regulations to include the following amendment: “No health
care institution located in the town of Southborough shall sell or cause
to be sold tobacco products. No retail establishment that operates or
has a health care institution within it, such as a pharmacy or drug
store, shall sell or cause to be sold tobacco products.”
The ban is in effect immediately, and the three town pharmacies will
have 60 days to comply ...
Cats,
Dogs and Everything Else: Bills of the Session
State Journal - Walt Williams - January 20, 2011
SB 9 -- Prohibits West Virginia pharmacies from selling tobacco products
after June 30. Sponsor: Sen. Foster. SB 17 -- Creates a new state Office
of ...
San
Francisco bans all pharmacy tobacco sales
ModernMedicine - Christine Blank - January 14, 2011
After much legal wrangling, pharmacies in San Francisco can no longer
carry cigarettes. Although the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ruled
in 2008 that ...
Walpole
selectmen Cliff Snuffer and Mike Berry question ban of tobacco ...
Walpole Times - Keith Ferguson - November 18, 2010
WALPOLE — Weeks after the Board of Health banned local pharmacies
from selling tobacco products, two selectmen are questioning the prohibition
and may take legislative action in an attempt to reverse it.
The Walpole selectmen called the move unfair to Walpole businesses
and citizens.
A local doctor promoted the regulation change that prohibited stores
in Walpole from selling cigarettes and prescription medication in the
same place. Dr. Joe Dorsey argued it is hypocritical for a business
to peddle known carcinogens in an establishment meant to improve people’s
health.
Board of Health members reopened Walpole’s regulations last month
and voted 4 to 1 to ban tobacco products from pharmacies. The new law
forcing pharmacies to choose between selling cigarettes and prescription
medication went into effect on Oct. 21.
A total of four Walpole pharmacies were directly affected by the move:
CVS, WalMart, Big Y and Stop & Shop.
Health Director Robin Chapell said this week that the transition away
from selling tobacco products has gone smoothly and the board hasn’t
received complaints from the businesses about the new regulations ...
Ban
on Saskatchewan pharmacies selling tobacco products pushed back to April
2011
Saskatoon (Sas) Star Phoenix (ca), 2010-10-25
Saskatchewan pharmacies will stop selling tobacco products as of April
1, 2011, said Health minister Don McMorris on Monday.
McMorris released the province’s tobacco reduction strategy as
he opened a two-day symposium that brings together health officials
and experts from across Saskatchewan. He later told reporters that the
government is delaying the ban on pharmacy tobacco sales by several
months.
“A lot of pharmacies have to change the design of the store and
we’re giving the time to do that,” McMorris told reporters
Monday at the Hilton Garden Inn. ...
Whitman's
ex-housekeeper advised by SF lawyer
San Francisco Chronicle - October 6, 2010
Lit up: San Francisco could have another legal challenge on its
hands over banning tobacco from pharmacies. Safeway and other grocery
chains weren't part of ...
Cigarette
Ban At Pharmacies Approved, Alcohol Fee Vote Postponed
San Francisco Appeal , 2010-09-28
Ari Burack, Bay City News
San Francisco supervisors today gave final approval to expand the city's
ban on tobacco sales at stores with pharmacies but postponed a vote
on overturning a mayoral veto of a fee on alcohol wholesalers.
An expansion of the city's ban on tobacco sales at stores with pharmacies--which
would include grocery and big-box stores such as Safeway, Lucky and
Costco--was approved at a second board vote this afternoon, and Mayor
Gavin Newsom's office indicated the mayor will sign it.
Supporters have said that cigarette sales at stores that also sell
medicines sends a mixed message, particularly to youth.
Supervisors
pass booze fee, expand ban on cigarette sales : City Insider
San Francisco Chronicle, 2010-09-22
Audrey Cooper, John Coté, Kristen Go, Rachel Gordon,
...Supervisors also signed off on legislation to expand the ban on
tobacco sales in drug stores to include big-box stores and supermarkets
with on-site pharmacies. ...
San
Francisco supes OK expanded tobacco sales ban
Associated Press (AP), 2010-09-21
TREVOR HUNNICUTT, For The Associated Press
San Francisco supervisors gave preliminary approval Tuesday to expanding
a law that restricts drug stores from selling tobacco products to also
apply to grocery stores and big box wholesale clubs with pharmacies.
Supervisor Eric Mar, who co-sponsored the legislation, said there was
no good reason for stores that sell nicotine patches and drugs to patients
with cancer at one counter to offer cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco
at another.
"Cigarettes and pharmacies don't mix," Mar said. "Pharmacies
should promote healing and protect our health."
The ordinance expands an existing ban on drug store sales of tobacco
products to cover big box wholesale clubs with pharmacies such as Costco
Wholesale Corp. and grocery stores such as Safeway. A similar law is
on the books in Boston.
Board
of Supervisors to vote on tobacco ban extension
SF State News (San Francisco State University), 2010-09-20
Andrea Moran, staff writer
Smokers may no longer be able to purchase cigarettes at stores like
Safeway and Costco after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors votes
on Tuesday to broaden a tobacco sales ban to include all stores that
have a pharmacy. If Mayor Gavin Newsom signs the ordinance, tobacco
products will disappear from those businesses in 30 days.
According to Dr. Lisa Kroon, executive vice-chair of the department
of clinical pharmacy at UCSF's School of Pharmacy, selling tobacco products
in stores that have pharmacies represents a conflict of interests.
"You shouldn't be able to buy products that harm you in the same
place you go to get healthy," said Lin-Shao Chin, legislative aide
to Supervisor Eric Mar, who introduced the legislation in August.
Board
to vote on expanding ban on tobacco sales
San Francisco Chronicle, 2010-09-21
Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer
Packs of cigarettes line the back wall of Charlie's, a corner store
in the Western Addition, while just feet away sits a pharmacy with a
scoreboard-like device flashing flu prevention tips.
It's a juxtaposition the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected
to quash today as it votes on legislation to ban selling tobacco products
in any stores containing pharmacies.
That means no more tossing a pack of cigarettes into the cart at Safeway
or Costco - and, according to Charlie's owner Nick Shoman, the possible
death of his family's 23-year-old business. Or at least its pharmacy,
which is a money-loser, while cigarettes account for 8 percent of his
profit.
And besides, he added, the legislation won't stop a single patron of
his from smoking - a prediction loyal customers Nate Cochran, 48, and
Rickey Jackson, 51, said is a sure bet.
"If I have to go to Timbuktu to get my cigarettes, I'll go to
Timbuktu!" Jackson said.
Tobacco
ban poised to expand
San Francisco (CA) Examiner, 2010-09-14
Joshua Sabatini Examiner Staff Writer
The City moved closer Monday to banning the sale of tobacco products
in all businesses with a pharmacy, including drugstores and supermarkets.
In 2008, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban the sale of
tobacco products in drugstores such as Walgreens, but exempted grocery
stores or stores such as Safeway and Costco.
But Walgreens sued The City and the California Court of Appeals ruled
in June that the law, in applying just to drugstores, violates equal
protection rights under the U.S. Constitution.
The City has now turned to a "legislative fix" in the legal
battle. Supervisor Eric Mar has proposed legislation that would impose
the ban on all businesses with a pharmacy.
The Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee
approved the legislation in a 3-0 vote Monday. The full board is expected
to vote on the bill next week. ...
Cigarette
Sales Ban Expansion Moves One Step Closer To Approval
San Francisco Appeal , 2010-09-14
Ari Burack, Bay City News
Legislation to expand San Francisco's first-in-the-nation ban on tobacco
sales by pharmacies moved forward in committee today, despite one owner's
concern that it would drive his corner store out of business.
After testimony by health officials and anti-tobacco advocates this
afternoon, the Board of Supervisors' three-member Land Use and Economic
Development Committee agreed unanimously to send the ordinance--which
adds grocery stores and "big box" stores with pharmacies to
the ban--to the full board.
Nick Schoman, owner of Charlie's, a corner drug store at 1101 Fillmore
St. in the Western Addition neighborhood, asked the committee not to
pass the legislation.
"Losing tobacco sales would cripple my business," Schoman
said. ...
During the March 2010 annual meeting of the American Pharmacists
Association (APhA), the following statements regarding sales of tobacco
in pharmacies were adopted by the APhA of Delegates and became the official
policy of the association. The APhA Board and leadership planned to
meet in the next few months to discuss and adopt implementation strategies
for these new policies.
APhA has over 60,000 members and is the largest association representing
the pharmacy field.
Discontinuation of the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies
and facilities that include pharmacies
Canadians,
Americans, Britons support tobacco crackdowns
Toronto Sun - 8 August 18, 2010
The Angus Reid Public Opinion poll found that most respondents supported
the laws that ban smoking indoors, in a vehicle that has a child present
and in ...
Next
target for tobacco ban: Grocery stores
San Francisco Examiner - Joshua Sabatini - August 4, 2010
The City recently adopted legislation expanding the no-smoking areas
throughout San Francisco, an effort to reduce the number of tobacco-selling
permits has ...
Everett
board bans sale of tobacco in drugstores
Boston Globe - John Laidler - June 10, 2010
Starting next week, smokers will find it a little less convenient to
pick up a pack of cigarettes in Everett.
Hoping to deliver another blow against smoking, the Board of Health
on May 24 voted unanimously to ban the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies.
The ban, which takes effect next Tuesday, also applies to business establishments
that include pharmacies, according to Heidi Porter, Everett’s public
health director.
“Pharmacies and drugstores that sell tobacco products are essentially
approving of the purchase and use of tobacco. And we think that sends
a mixed message to consumers who are going to these pharmacies really
for health care services,’’ Porter said, of what prompted
the ban. “The bottom line is that these pharmacies are health care
establishments.’...
Walgreen
Suit Over San Francisco Tobacco Ban Revived (Update1)
(Updates with history of sales ban in second paragraph.)
Business Week/Bloomberg, 2010-06-08
Karen Gullo
Walgreen Co., the largest U.S. drugstore chain, can proceed with a
lawsuit challenging San Francisco's first-in-the-nation law banning
sales of tobacco products in some pharmacies, a California appeals court
ruled.
The ordinance, passed in 2008, says drugstores that sell health-care
products convey tacit approval of smoking by selling cigarettes. While
it barred tobacco sales at Walgreens, it didn't apply to grocery and
warehouse stores that also contain pharmacies like those operated by
Safeway Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp. Walgreen claims the rule is
unconstitutional and anticompetitive.
Today's ruling reversed a judge's decision to dismiss Walgreen's case.
A state appeals court in San Francisco said there's no rational basis
to believe that the message conveyed to consumers by tobacco sales at
Walgreens is any different from such sales at supermarkets or big-box
stores that have pharmacies. Walgreen can challenge whether the rule
is an equal protection violation, the court said. ...
WALGREEN
CO. v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Leagle.com - June 9, 2010
What must be decided here is whether the legitimate objectives of discouraging
smoking and avoiding the suggestion that a health care purveyor approves
of ...
Calif.
Justices Wonder: Is Walgreens a Grocery Store?
Law.com, 2010-03-11
Kate Moser The Recorder
In a challenge to a San Francisco law that bans tobacco sales at drug
stores, three California appeal court justices on Wednesday looked like
they wanted to avoid ruling on Walgreens' constitutional argument that
the city is violating equal protection rights.
Instead, the First District Court of Appeal panel appeared more interested
in whether a drug store that sells food is really a grocery store that
would be exempt.
The local ordinance, which took effect in 2008, bans tobacco sales
in San Francisco at drug stores but not at supermarkets or stores like
Costco. The city has contended that the sale of tobacco by health-promoting
businesses sends a mixed message about cigarettes. ...
Local
doctor asks Board of Health to ban sale of cigarettes in Walpole pharmacies
Wicked Local (MA), 2010-02-25
Keith Ferguson Walpole Times
Calling the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies contradictory,
Board of Health members will look into banning the sale of cigarettes
in Walpole stores that also sell prescription medication.
Walpole resident Dr. Joseph Dorsey presented the topic to the board
at their meeting Tuesday night, arguing it didn't make sense that pharmacies,
which sell products to improve people's health, would peddle tobacco
products.
The board has scheduled a public hearing at their next meeting to discuss
changing town regulations to forbid stores with pharmacies from selling
tobacco products. Health Director Robin Chapell said businesses would
have to choose between selling cigarettes or prescriptions.
Boston, Needham, Newton and Uxbridge have passed similar measures statewide.
...
Stop-smoking
effort to kick off Saturday
Contra Costa Times - December 17, 2009
... offer educational materials on the dangers of smoking. Also, the
Pharmacists Planning Service is pushing a ban on sale of cigarettes
in all pharmacies. ...
Newton
aldermen snuff out tobacco in pharmacies
Newton TAB - John Hilliard - November 17, 2009
Newton — The Board of Aldermen approved a ban forbidding pharmacies
from selling tobacco products in the city by a wide margin Monday night.
The measure passed without discussion.
In an 18-3 vote, members approved the ban, which supporters said was
intended to prevent those in the public health business from selling
cigarettes and other tobacco items.
Aldermen Bill Brandel, Amy Sangiolo and Jay Harney cast the only nay
votes against the ban. ...
Push
to restrict tobacco sales to drugstores
San Francisco Chronicle, 2009-11-06
Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer
Now San Francisco entrepreneur Stuart Skorman, founder of the now defunct
holistic-oriented drugstore chain Elephant Pharmacy, wants to make pharmacies
the only places that sell tobacco products.
Skorman, who on Thursday launched a nonprofit organization called HealthyPharmacies.org
to promote his idea, believes that restricting cigarette sales to pharmacies
would not only control the distribution and visibility of the product,
but also give pharmacists the opportunity to counsel customers about
quitting.
The idea would also prevent kids from going down to the corner store
to buy cigarettes from a clerk who may not check identification, he
said.
"Keeping tobacco away from 12-year-olds saves lives and billions
of dollars from the health care system," he said.
Skorman advocates testing the concept in some cities and then comparing
the impact on smoking with those that have banned the sale of tobacco
products in drugstores. He said he's in discussions with city officials
interested in the idea, but declined to name the cities.
"If limiting distribution and limiting the visibility of this
dangerous product reduces smoking in communities, we believe pharmacists
would be more than happy to be part of the program," he said.
The problem? Most pharmacists and health experts interviewed for this
story found the idea downright unhealthy. ...
San
Francisco, Berkeley Missed Public Health Opportunity by Moving Tobacco
PR Newswire, 2009-11-05
SOURCE HealthyPharmacies.org
San Francisco and Berkeley missed an opportunity to help smokers quit
when the cities moved all tobacco sales out of pharmacies, according
to a new Bay Area health initiative. Instead of having smokers buy cigarettes
in convenience stores and at other retailers, smokers should buy cigarettes
only at pharmacy counters, says Stuart Skorman, founder of Elephant
Pharmacy.
Launching HealthyPharmacies.org, Skorman is focused on making pharmacies
centers of health and wellness at the community level. "They can't
just sell medicines to people who are sick. They must educate consumers
and give them tools to lead healthier lives."
Keeping cigarettes behind the pharmacy counter would do just that,
Skorman says. When a smoker asks for a pack of cigarettes, pharmacy
staff would have the opening to offer nicotine replacement, such as
the patch or gum, or point smokers in the direction of counseling and
other tools. The approach wouldn't require a prescription for tobacco
but would offer smokers tools to help them quit. ...
Newton
takes public comment on extinguishing pharmacy tobacco sales
Wicked Local (MA), 2009-11-03
Dan Atkinson/Staff Writer
Residents can butt in at an aldermen meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 4 about
a proposal to ban tobacco from being sold at CVS and other city pharmacies.
"We wanted to give a chance for the public to weigh in on an important
issue," said Alderman Ted Hess-Mahan, one of the proposal's sponsors.
The public comment will be at 7:45 p.m. at City Hall on Wednesday. The
Programs and Services Committee will host it in Room 222.
The ban would be similar to ones in Boston, Uxbridge and Needham ...
Study
shows how smoking really burns Saskatchewan
Regina Leader-Post - Murray Mandryk - October 28, 2009
Saskatchewan, Canada: ...Besides banning smoking in cars with kids
under 14 years and banning smoking on outdoor bar and restaurant patios,
the government is also contemplating stopping the sale of cigarettes
in pharmacies, including pharmacies located in big-box stores. However,
such big-box stores might be able to sell tobacco in areas with separate
entrances. ...
Court
upholds verdict against tobacco firms
San Francisco Chronicle, 2009-10-15
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
... In another development, San Francisco's ban on tobacco sales in
drugstores survived a legal challenge from Philip Morris. City Attorney
Dennis Herrera's office said the tobacco company had dropped its appeal
of a ruling upholding the year-old ordinance.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the
ban last month, rejecting Philip Morris' argument that the city was
effectively prohibiting tobacco advertising at drugstores in violation
of freedom of speech. The court said the ordinance restricted only tobacco
sales, not advertising.
A state appeals court in San Francisco is considering a separate suit
by Walgreens, which says the ordinance discriminates against drugstores
by allowing supermarkets and big-box retail stores with pharmacies to
sell tobacco. ...
Philip
Morris Drops Lawsuit Against San Francisco
KRXI-TV Fox 11 (Reno, NV), 2009-10-15
The nation's largest tobacco company agreed Thursday to drop its legal
challenge to San Francisco's ban on tobacco sales in pharmacies.
Lawyers for the Richmond, Va. -based Philip Morris USA Inc. filed a
stipulation of dismissal in federal court in Oakland, agreeing to end
a lawsuit that claimed the San Francisco law violated its free speech
rights.
The action comes after a federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld
the law on Sept. 9, affirming a decision in which U.S. District Judge
Claudia Wilken of Oakland last year refused to issue a preliminary injunction.
Philip Morris spokesman Jack Marshall said he could not comment except
to say that if Wilken signs the stipulation, "Obviously, the case
will be dismissed."
The judge's approval is expected because the stipulation was signed
by lawyers for both Philip Morris and the city.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera hailed the end of the case, saying, "San
Francisco's local officials have the right and the duty to protect public
health, and in this case they have a compelling rationale."
"Consumers -- and especially young people -- should reasonably
expect pharmacies to serve their health needs, not to enable our leading
cause of preventable death," Herrera said. . . .
Chief Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in September that while advertising
is a form of free speech, "Selling cigarettes isn't."
Proposal
would send Newton pharmacy tobacco sales up in smoke
Newton TAB - Dan Atkinson - October 8, 2009
... on a proposed ban of tobacco products in pharmacies. The ban would
be similar to ones in San Francisco, Boston and Needham. At a meeting
Wednesday night, ...
Letters:
Politicians behaving badly
San Francisco Chronicle, 2009-09-11
DEEPAK SRIVASTAVA, M.D. American Heart Association San Francisco
Wednesday's federal appeals court ruling upholding San Francisco's
ban on tobacco sales at pharmacies rightly dismissed Philip Morris'
specious argument that this sensible ordinance interferes with the corporation's
right to communicate with its customers. The Web, magazine ads, event
sponsorship - their messages are hardly scarce.
Pharmacies should be centers of wellness, not illness. They should
not sell products that, when used as intended, are quite likely to kill
the user.
Let's hope that other cities and counties will quickly take action and
follow San Francisco's lead. ...
S.F.
ban on tobacco in drugstores survives
San Francisco Chronicle, 2009-09-10
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco can enforce its ban on tobacco sales in drugstores, a
federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, rejecting a free-speech argument
by tobacco giant Philip Morris.
The ordinance, the first of its kind in the nation, took effect in
October. It prohibits sales of cigarettes and other tobacco products
at San Francisco's nearly 60 drugstores.
Philip Morris said the ban effectively forced the company to pull its
advertising out of the stores, interfering with its constitutional right
to communicate with customers. But the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in San Francisco said the city hasn't restricted freedom of expression.
The city "limits where cigarettes may be sold; it doesn't prevent
(Philip Morris) from advertising," the court said in a 3-0 ruling
upholding a judge's denial of an injunction against the ordinance.
Even if the measure affects advertising in drugstores, the court added,
it does not suppress any ideas or the company's ability to discuss its
product. ...
Tobacco
ban smolders on
San Francisco (CA) Examiner, 2009-09-10
The City can continue to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies, after Mayor
Gavin Newsom's proposal cleared another legal hurdle Wednesday from
the nation's largest cigarette manufacturer.
San Francisco became the first city in the nation to ban tobacco sales
in pharmacies almost a year ago. The law exempts supermarkets and big-box
stores, such as Costco, that contain pharmacies. . . .
"I am pleased that the court rejected Philip Morris' attempt to
use the First Amendment as a profit-making tool," City Attorney
Dennis Herrera said in a statement.
Jack Marshall, a spokesman for Philip Morris, said the company is reviewing
its options.
"While we're disappointed with today's decision, we continue to
believe that the purpose and the effect of the ordinance is to suppress
communications directed to adult smokers in violation of our constitutional
rights," he said. "The ban also unfairly deprives adult consumers
of the opportunity to buy tobacco products from legitimate, licensed
retail businesses." ...
Framingham
considers banning cigarette sales in pharmacies
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA, August 19, 2009
FRAMINGHAM The Board of Health will consider placing a townwide
ban on cigarette sales inside Framingham pharmacies.
Board Chairman Mike Hugo expects to discuss the idea at the board's
meeting later this month.
"A pharmacy is supposed to be a place where you sell healthy things,"
said Hugo. "And quite frankly we've had a problem with pharmacies
selling cigarettes to minors."
Hugo expects the discussion to be "a two-meeting process,"
and noted that the Board of Health has the power to unilaterally institute
such a ban.
"We don't need a bylaw," he said.
If Framingham were to enact such a ban, it would be the fourth Massachusetts
community, behind Boston, Needham, and Uxbridge, to do so, according
to the Framingham-based Tobacco Free Mass. …
… The Walgreens suit is still pending, said Bronson Frick, associate
director for Nonsmokers' Rights. "We expect a lot more cities to
follow suit," said Frick ...
S.F.'s
Tobacco Sales Ban Hits Ninth Circuit
Law.com, 2009-08-13
Two attorneys who had both clerked in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court
of Appeals went head to head there Wednesday in a case that pits Philip
Morris against the city of San Francisco.
The case concerns the city's 2008 ban on the sale of tobacco in city
pharmacies. Philip Morris counsel Daniel Collins, of Munger, Tolles
& Olson, argued that the city law violates the company's right to
advertise its product.
In December, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled that the ordinance
did not violate Philip Morris' First Amendment right.
During Wednesday's brief hearing, Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski
poked at Philip Morris' argument, saying that following that logic would
mean that any time the government bans the sale of anything, it would
become a First Amendment issue. ...
Judges
don't buy theory in S.F. tobacco-ban case
San Francisco Chronicle, 2009-08-13
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
A federal appeals court appeared to be inclined Wednesday to let San
Francisco continue to enforce its ban on tobacco sales in drugstores.
A lawyer for Philip Morris argued to a panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in San Francisco that the ordinance, which took effect
in October 2008, forced the tobacco company to pull its advertising
out of drugstores, interfering with its constitutional right to communicate
with its customers.
"Retailers will not agree to accept (display ads) for products
they can't sell," attorney Daniel Collins said. Even if a store
was willing to continue tobacco advertising, he said, "it annoys
their customers, tantalizes them," to see ads for products they
can't buy.
As a consequence, Collins argued, Philip Morris has to pay more to
exercise its First Amendment right to advertise its products, because
of what he described as the city's hostility to the ads' message.
But Judge Procter Hug, part of the three-member court panel, pointed
out that the ordinance banned only tobacco sales, and the company had
removed the ads on its own. Chief Judge Alex Kozinski noted that advertisers
always have to decide how much they're willing to pay to pitch their
wares. . . .
"The problem with your argument is that any time the government
bans the sale of anything, it becomes a First Amendment issue,"
Kozinski told Collins. ...
San
Francisco: Smoking Ads Are Not Free Speech
City clashes with Phillip [sic] Morris over pharmacy ban
NBC Bay Area - July 29, 2009
Lawyers for the city of San Francisco told a federal judge Thursday
that the city's ban on cigarette sales by pharmacies has nothing to
do with free speech.
Attorneys for the city made the argument in a brief filed with U.S.
District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland to oppose a bid by Philip Morris
USA Inc. for a preliminary injunction blocking the ban.
Philip Morris, the nation's largest tobacco company, claims the ban
violates its First Amendment right of free speech by putting an end
to cigarette advertising and displays in the pharmacy stores.
But city lawyers wrote in their brief, "The sale of a product
is conduct, not speech."
They said Philip Morris is still free to pay pharmacies to display
tobacco advertisements. ...
MOTTA:
Perspective: Needham decision to ban cigarette sales in pharmacies sets
an example
Wicked Local (MA), 2009-07-21
Mario Motta, M.D., Guest Commentary
In voting to ban the sale of tobacco products at pharmacies and other
health-care facilities within the town, the Needham Board of Health
has taken a giant step for public health. I congratulate the members
for a courageous action that will enhance the health of people of all
ages.
The medical evidence on tobacco use is clear. . . .
This issue is of such importance that the Medical Society is strongly
supporting two bills now before the legislature: House Bill 2054 and
Senate Bill 813. These bills would restrict the sale of tobacco products
at locations where health professionals are employed and assure that
no licensed health professionals in Massachusetts are employed in their
profession where tobacco products are sold. . . .
The Needham Board of Health's action and the proposed state legislation
will not end the sale of tobacco products by themselves. But together
they send a crucial message to our patients young and old: that physicians
and health professionals recognize the dangers of tobacco and are willing
to act in what they believe to be the best interests of their personal
and public health. The board's action will help to save lives, reduce
illness, and contain health-care costs in the commonwealth. ...
Needham
bans cigarette sales in pharmacies
Needham Times - Steven Ryan - July 14, 2009
Needham — Needham pharmacies will soon not be able to sell cigarettes
after the Board of Health voted July 14 to approve the ban.
The Board of Health voted 2-0 in favor of the ban, with one member
absent. The ban will go into effect on Oct. 1. This comes five months
after Boston banned cigarettes from pharmacies. The new regulations
also include language preventing the sale of noncigarette tobacco products,
including “blunt wraps,” to minors.
The ban affects three of the four pharmacies in town: the two CVS pharmacies,
with one in Needham Heights and another in the downtown; and Walgreens,
across from Town Hall. The Bird’s Hill Pharmacy on Great Plain
Avenue hasn’t sold cigarettes in years. ...
NY
bill would restrict drug store cigarette sales
(Long Island, NY) Newsday, 2009-04-20
MICHAEL GORMLEY * Associated Press Writer
New York could be the first state to ban the sale of cigarettes in
drug stores as well as in supermarkets and big-box stores like Wal-Mart
that have pharmacies.
Measures similar to the bill gaining ground in New York have already
been enacted in cities such as San Francisco and Boston, in towns and
in parts of Canada. But the bill in Albany would be the first statewide
ban, according to Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, a Buffalo Democrat and co-sponsor
of the bill.
Supporters and opponents say the ban would likely lead to further measures
to stop the sale of tobacco products. ...
Legal
Consortium files amicus brief in first impression tobacco ...
William Mitchell College of Law – March 31, 2009
William Mitchell’s Tobacco Control Legal Consortium and its California
affiliate, the Tobacco Assistance Legal Center, filed an amicus brief
at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on March 24 defending San Francisco’s
pioneering ban on pharmacy sales of tobacco products against a First
Amendment challenge by Philip Morris. This will be the first appellate
decision on the validity of pharmacy sales bans of tobacco products
and likely will set precedent for the country.
The San Francisco ordinance has survived an initial round of challenges
after both Philip Morris and Walgreens requested injunctions to stop
enforcement of the ban on selling tobacco products in pharmacies. Both
challenges were rejected and the law went into effect Oct. 1, stripping
tobacco products from the city’s approximately 60 drug stores.
Philip Morris, the nation’s largest tobacco company, immediately
appealed the order. The appeal before the Ninth Circuit could take months
to resolve.
The Legal Consortium’s brief was written by Linda Lye, an experienced
appellate attorney at Altshuler Berzon in San Francisco, and was joined
by 19 parties, including national medical, public health, and pharmaceutical
organizations, such as the American Medical Association, the National
Association of County and City Health Officials, the National Association
of Local Boards of Health, the American Legacy Foundation, Americans
for Nonsmokers Rights, and the Pharmacists Planning Service, Inc., as
well as California health organizations, leading groups from Massachusetts
concerned about Boston’s new pharmacy ban, and several professors
at the University of California at San Francisco, School of Pharmacy.
...
Pharmacies
complying with new law that bans tobacco sales
Boston (MA) Globe, 2009-02-16
Boston inspectors who visited 73 pharmacies during the first week of
stringent new tobacco control regulations could not find a single pack
of cigarettes on store shelves, the city's health department reported.
Last Monday, Boston became the second major US city - San Francisco
was the first - to ban tobacco sales at drugstores. .
Boston
Bans Cigarette Sales In Drug Stores
WBBM, February 9, 2009
(CBS) Boston will become the nation’s second city to ban the
sale of cigarettes by pharmacies on Monday, as new rules approved by
the city’s public health commission take effect.
The regulations passed by the commission two months ago also ban colleges
from selling tobacco products on campus and will force smoking bars
to shut their doors within a decade, reports CBS News correspondent
Randall Pinkston.
“In 10 years, all smoking bars in Boston should be gone,”
Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the commission’s executive director, tells
CBS News.
There are only 11 left, and the city vows not to license any more.
Health officials are especially perturbed at the emergence of half a
dozen of hookah bars, which cater to college students and young adults.
“Once you get started, quitting is very hard,” Hallet says.
“We still have a half a million deaths a year in the country every
year that are attributable to the use of tobacco.”
Judge
dismisses Walgreens suit over S.F. tobacco ban in drugstores
San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 2008
San Francisco's ban on tobacco sales in drugstores cleared another
legal hurdle today when a judge dismissed a suit by Walgreens, which
complained about the law's exemption for supermarkets and big-box retail
stores that have pharmacies.
Judge Peter Busch of San Francisco Superior Court said city supervisors
who passed the ordinance were entitled to conclude that selling cigarettes
in drugstores, where customers go to improve their health, sends the
wrong message to young people about the acceptability of smoking. That
was a reasonable basis for prohibiting sales in stores such as Walgreens
while allowing them in other stores that have pharmacies, he said.
Boston
bans cigarette sales in drug stores but delays cigar bar closings
Boston Globe, 2008-12-11
Stephen Smith, Globe Staff
Cigar bars and other swank salons devoted to smoking won a significant
though temporary reprieve from Boston health regulators today, who decided
that the establishments will face extinction in 10 years instead of
the five-year grace period originally proposed as part of sweeping new
tobacco control rules.
The regulations, approved unanimously by the Boston Public Health Commission,
also ban cigarette sales at drugstores and on college campuses in the
city and eliminate smoking on the patios of restaurants and bars with
outside service. Those restrictions will go into effect in 60 days.
The restrictions give Boston among the most stringent antismoking laws
in the United States and place it at the vanguard of widening campaigns
to reduce cigarette smoking, especially among young people and the poor.
While major pharmacy chains and tobacco companies quietly fought the
rules, the most fervent opposition emerged from the owners and patrons
of cigar bars and hookah lounges, where customers take long drags on
flavored tobacco from a communal water pipe.
Judge
upholds ban on drugstore tobacco sales
San Francisco Chronicle, December 6, 2008
San Francisco's ban on tobacco sales in drugstores doesn't violate
a cigarette company's constitutional right to advertise its products,
a federal judge ruled Friday in rejecting Philip Morris' attempt to
halt enforcement of the ordinance.
The company said it would appeal.
The ordinance "prohibits conduct, tobacco sales, not speech about
tobacco," said U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland. Her
ruling spelled out her reasons for her decision at a Nov. 6 hearing
to deny an injunction against the ban, which took effect Oct. 1.
The ordinance, the first of its kind in the nation, prohibits sales
of cigarettes and other tobacco products at the city's nearly 60 drugstores.
It exempts supermarkets and big-box retail stores that also have pharmacies,
the basis of a separate suit by Walgreens claiming unconstitutional
discrimination. A San Francisco Superior Court judge denied Walgreens'
request for an injunction Sept. 30.
See
our list of Municipalities
with Tobacco-free Pharmacy Laws. 
The
American Medical Association (AMA) has a resolution on this issue:
Background
paper from UCSF on tobacco in pharmacies.
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