okay CVS stores are no longer going to sell cigarettes this story I first read
about it yesterday
I thought maybe we'll talk about it on Thursday show I had no idea how it was
going to blow up in the absurdity
a some other comments being made about this that that would happen CNN
Think Progress Crooks and Liars all reporting on this
the retailer said that this move to stop selling
cigarettes by october first up 20-14
will make them the first chain national pharmacies to take tobacco products
totally
of love their shelves they say ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco
products
at CVS Pharmacy is the right thing to do for us
and for our customers and for our company to help people on a path to
better health
so here's what's going on CBS is trying to set itself up more as a health
company a health care provider
they have these a clinics available for certain medical services they have some
medical staff on-site
and if you're a company that wants to grow in the area up
pharmacy healthcare lou shots urgent care
it that it doesn't really make sense to also be selling cigarettes so this is
exclusively a business decision
air yeah yeah I guess so I i
you know it's there 1i support even know it is a business decision I think it's
great
and I guess if they really want you come off as a
a hell company they should probably stop selling all those candy a potato chips
to write well that would be another level I don't know if we can ask them to
do that what we do know is that their cigarette business their tobacco
business results in two billion in
in yearly sales this is 1.5 billion for the actual products
and they estimate about another $500 million
in product sold to the those who are coming into their stores primarily to
buy
cigarettes or tobacco products now overall this is not that much ninety
four billion dollars is the total revenue
from last year in 2013 that was up slightly from 2012
the company also announced it going to launch a smoking cessation program
in the spring I think that this is great I think
if you're a smoker you may be angry that you can't get your cigarettes CBS
but if you're not a smoker you should be glad about this because
remember tobacco companies are really struggling throughout smoking rates have
decreased
from 42 percent of Americans in the nineteen sixties the kind of Mad Men
era to only 21 percent americans today
this is going to be a significant hit to tobacco companies I understand
people will go elsewhere for their cigarettes from but from the point of
view of the tobacco companies
this is a one-stop place where by providing
all CVS stores with cigarettes you're making a lot of money and having to
piecemeal
those sales across other vendors
is going to be even more money particularly in the first few years were
you have to reorganize distribution
now it didn't take long for Fox News
to question whether its even legal
for CVS to stop selling tobacco products look at this
and fewer people smoking is OK running a short ratio can't legally since you're
nowhere to restrict
tobacco availability in a private story writer can do whatever they want
absolutely
they can take they don't have to market anything that they don't wanna market I
think they've come up with a marketing plan offered in the short term
this Picasa for money but in the long term we're going to get consumers were
all talking about
a such a good thing will get more people in more health-conscious people in the
store
cheney will you still shop at CVS
and do you think other people will be offended and not shot you know i'd
I thought the whole thing on Fox News in from the kinda but rubra
pro-business libertarian is right is that
for-profit companies get to do whatever they want
and now Fox News is wondering can this for-profit company
really stop selling cigarettes the idiocy has reached new highs
on the DD pro-business side
when it comes to this a anti-tobacco move by CVS
Yahoo new the Fox News was in love with tobacco companies I guess that
I guess just about any giant evil corporation Fox News's
is in love with get that in in
no matter what the effect is on people's health or well-being apparently although
one of the people on that little panel
did say hey I'm involved in the kind of medical segment the medical show we do
and I think it's good I don't think people should be smoking at all the
tiniest sliver of logic and reason
in another apoplectic conversation looking to
I don't know maintain freedom whether it's for smokers are
for people selling cigarettes sir not selling cigarette is very hard to keep
track it's certainly not
consistent