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Newspaper Article
CVS' move to drop tobacco sends the right message
2014
Overview
That's why this week's announcement that CVS/Caremark, one of the nation's largest drugstore chains, has decided to stop selling tobacco products by this October is so encouraging. It's not that taking tobacco out of CVS will make it so much more difficult for smokers to buy cigarettes -- company officials readily admit that smokers will just go elsewhere. It may wind up being good for CVS' bottom line, but it is also part of what Dr. Troyen A. Brennan, CVS' chief medical officer, and Dr. Steven A. Schroeder, head of the University of California-San Francisco's Smoking Cessation Center, describe as the \"denormalizing\" of smoking. Nearly one out of every five deaths in the United States is caused by smoking, and treating smoking-related illnesses costs $96 billion a year, according to the CDC. By itself, CVS' decision isn't going to change that. But it is an important step in the effort to send a unified message that smoking is not and should not be accepted as the norm.
Publisher
The Arizona Daily Star
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