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And guess who the soda companies are modeling their marketing strategies after...yup...big tobacco.
The contaminated, additive-filled nasty ass food in this country is killing more people than anything, cigs included.
No question about that.
Anyone that ignores that fact does so at their own peril.
Do you stick your head into BBQ smoke and inhale deeply10 times (the average number of puffs a smoker gets per cigarette) and repeat that 20 or 30 times a day, every single day, the way a two to three pack a day smoker does with cigarettes?
FYI, there are 20 cigarettes in a pack. Therefore, a 2 pack per day smoker burns up 40 cigarettes per day. I have known many smokers who burned 2 packs per day, but only took one or two puffs from each cigarette. Also, not all puffs are inhaled deeply; many are rather shallow.
My step-father smoked and chewed (he lived to be nearly 90). My mother smoked, and often had 2 or more cigarettes burning in ashtrays in different rooms at the same time. (she lived to be nearly 80). I started smoking during a mortar attack in Vietnam in 1966, and smoked for 40 years.
I have an excellent idea of the the mechanics of smoking.
It does? How? CVS is a pharmacy right? That means they sell medication right? Who buys medication most commonly? Sick people, unhealthy people, right? So in other words, if you are sick and unhealthy, that means you'll likely be buying medication, which is good for business. If you are healthy, you aren't buying meds, which is bad for business.
So how exactly does this make sense again? Answer: It doesn't. There is something we aren't being told about this decision by CVS pharmacy. Maybe their tobacco sales are being subsidized by some private anti-smoking organization or maybe they just aren't really selling many tobacco products anyway and figure they may as well get some good publicity out of deciding to stop selling them. Maybe they want to launch an ad campaign distinguishing themselves from other pharmacies. One thing I am sure of though is that CVS motives are not truly altruistic. No business just gives up 2B dollars, if you even believe that figure. it's a business move. First and foremost. If this would have negatively impacted business, they wouldn't have done it.
Think for yourself people, and don't be sheep.
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Since I don't often go to a CVS, all I can do is shrug and say "Who cares, it's their business?" .
Unless you own stock and are concerned this might affect it negatively or that's the most convenient place for you and you've been buying your cigarettes there, why would you care?
The local Walgreen's here has the best cigarette prices around, BTW. Pretty competitive on liquor prices, too.
"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 news is another blow to the $100 billion tobacco industry that is wrestling with slumping sales, rising taxes, widening smoking bans and a resurgence of public information campaigns highlighting the perils of smoking."
I lost my grandfather to lung cancer, and my mom has had circulation problems for years, although she quit more than 15 years ago after her doctor warned her that amputation was likely unless she quit. I was a heavy second-hand smoker for my first fifteen years of life and can't wait for the day that smoking is banned everywhere.
In California, at least in the area I live, it's rare to see smokers now, and I still can't believe that 20% of the population still smokes. Who starts smoking these days? You'd have to be intellectually incapacitated.
I'm hoping ex-smokers will see CVS as a safe place to go without having to be tempted by cigarettes.
I just turned 27 and I wonder when I see all these people in my age group who still smoke, .
Who the hell smokes nowadays especially when you are young? I can understand some old timers who still smoke, but those in my age group really surprise me.
In 1964 more than half of men smoked, as did on third of women.
FYI, there are 20 cigarettes in a pack. Therefore, a 2 pack per day smoker burns up 40 cigarettes per day. I have known many smokers who burned 2 packs per day, but only took one or two puffs from each cigarette. Also, not all puffs are inhaled deeply; many are rather shallow.
My step-father smoked and chewed (he lived to be nearly 90). My mother smoked, and often had 2 or more cigarettes burning in ashtrays in different rooms at the same time. (she lived to be nearly 80). I started smoking during a mortar attack in Vietnam in 1966, and smoked for 40 years.
I have an excellent idea of the the mechanics of smoking.
So why did you quit smoking?
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