President Barack Obama is praising CVS Caremark’s decision to take tobacco products off the shelves, saying it will save lives and reduce health care costs. “As one of the largest retailers and pharmacies in America, CVS Caremark sets a powerful example,” he said in a statement early Wednesday morning. “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.”
Where is Barack going to get his cigs from?
Smoking is only for a certain class.
The rest of the slaves need to stay healthy to pay taxes.
I see people buying cigarettes in Rite-Aid all the time, CVS, I don't know if I've seen it there. Michelle Obama doesn't like milk in school lunches, maybe Stewart's will have to stop selling that, down the road. I was wondering, myself, what CVS is getting out of this. Not that I'm cynical, or anything. No business does something that will cost them so much money, reportedly, for purely altruistic reasons.
I see people buying cigarettes in Rite-Aid all the time, CVS, I don't know if I've seen it there. Michelle Obama doesn't like milk in school lunches, maybe Stewart's will have to stop selling that, down the road. I was wondering, myself, what CVS is getting out of this. Not that I'm cynical, or anything. No business does something that will cost them so much money, reportedly, for purely altruistic reasons.
I'd guess it was a trade off for obamacare. CVS and the rest will be your future doctors offices. You do as GOV ALMIGHTY says....and they will throw money your way. If you don't comply.....yer flat outta business!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
One third of cancers in the USA are smoking related. Everything else that is being discussed in this thread, if used properly is not a health problem. There is no safe level of smoking for the smoker or for those around them.
CVS is promoting health and is now in the business of "minute clinics", flu shots, etc. They soon will announce a discounted 'quit smoking promotion with special prices to help make it easier to quit smoking.
There is no ObamaCare payoff... dumping cigs is a business decision to build it's 'image'.
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CVS’s announcement follows years of branding initiatives to retool the mega-retailer not just as a drugstore chain, but as a health-care clinic that is an active player in its customers’ healthful lives, offering flu shots and basic care at its 800 MinuteClinics within its 7,600 stores. That rebranding had proved incompatible with the message that the cigarettes behind the front counters in most of its stores had seemed to send.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
They talk about their concern for their customers' health. The only concern I want then to have for my personal health is to make sure I don't have to walk on slippery ice in the parking lot. Their products are labeled, I'm over 18, I will take care of my own health. I consider their stance encroachment on my privacy.
Some Americans DEMAND the RIGHT to get Lung Cancer!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Some Americans DEMAND the RIGHT to get Lung Cancer!
some demand abortion too....what difference does it make?
rich folks with $$$$$$ can afford to smoke and buy private care....the system is removing the access to the 'sin habits' from the 'poor' because there are more of us than them....
get it??????
I'm sure you don't.....you think the system loves you
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Box, I don't demand any rights, I already have them. I just don't want any huge, faceless corporation taking an inordinate interest in what's good for me, as decided by God knows who. I'm a grown woman, if tobacco, which the government subsidizes, is legal, grown men and women will continue to make their own decisions as to its use, whether or not CVS sells it to them. I don't smoke. I don't want corporations like CVS reserving the right to nose into my personal decisions for me. And no, CVS, a store that sells shampoo and shoelaces, isn't a hospital or health care provider or even a drug company. They are just a big, big, business.
One third of cancers in the USA are smoking related. Everything else that is being discussed in this thread, if used properly is not a health problem. There is no safe level of smoking for the smoker or for those around them.
CVS is promoting health and is now in the business of "minute clinics", flu shots, etc. They soon will announce a discounted 'quit smoking promotion with special prices to help make it easier to quit smoking. There is no ObamaCare payoff... dumping cigs is a business decision to build it's 'image'.
Of course Obama is involved....he's the one that PRAISED this decision by CVS...wonder why the President never joined the Target bandwagon when they decided to cut tobacco from their stores?
It's a ploy... CVS will definitely get some quid pro quo under Obamacare for this $2 billion dollar loss.
Business doesn't have a heart... it has brains. No company would intentionally lose money for a warm fuzzy.
Box, I don't demand any rights, I already have them. I just don't want any huge, faceless corporation taking an inordinate interest in what's good for me, as decided by God knows who. I'm a grown woman, if tobacco, which the government subsidizes, is legal, grown men and women will continue to make their own decisions as to its use, whether or not CVS sells it to them. I don't smoke. I don't want corporations like CVS reserving the right to nose into my personal decisions for me. And no, CVS, a store that sells shampoo and shoelaces, isn't a hospital or health care provider or even a drug company. They are just a big, big, business.
YUP! They are just a big store, who can, if they choose, not sell cigarettes!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Other retailers, including Target, have stopped selling tobacco products without impacting industry sales.
The majority of cigarettes are sold through convenience stores (about 65%) and tobacco outlets (about 10%), "and these channels are gaining market share (due to relative ease/speed/variety of purchase)," the analysts wrote. Pharmacies, by comparison, represent an estimated 4% of industry volume.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Of course Obama is involved....he's the one that PRAISED this decision by CVS... wonder why the President never joined the Target bandwagon when they decided to cut tobacco from their stores?
Probably because Bill Clinton was President when Target announced it would not sell cigarettes, back in 1996
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Probably because Bill Clinton was President when Target announced it would not sell cigarettes, back in 1996
HA! Somehow I'm sure Obama was still behind it.
I have to agree that this is less about government and more about public image. People have been calling pharmacies hypocrites for years because they have continued to sell cigarettes. Now that smoking is on the decline and sales will only continue to fall naturally it makes sense for them to be "ahead of the curve" and promote health. I dont believe they have any real interest I anyone's health, but it is a sound business model for a pharmacy to promote health.
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