It’s called Free Market Economy Jimmy.CVS decided that selling cigarettes for short-term profits was out-weighed by negative public sentiment which could hurt long-term profits.The public let them know they did not agree with a store they go to for health remedies, selling a cancer-causing product.You see Morin, the government doesn’t always have to be Mommy.
I do not understand this move away from selling a killer product. They already are the street level pusher for drugs that kill more people every year than all of the illicit street drugs in the whole world. At least my Pharma stocks are doing well.
I doubt there’s really anything too benevolent going on. It was a profit-based decision. Fewer people are buying, and indeed, it gives them the illusion of making a principaled decision. If it really were a decision made for the public good, they would have made it decades ago. I suppose ere COULD be new leadership at CVS with a working conscience, but my gut tells me it’s all about profit. I doubt banning them would have worked, so government intervention beyond what it already does wouldn’t work.
Personally, I don’t care what CVS’ motives were. The fact that there is one less place to purchase a product that provides nothing more than the promise of early death is something to be applauded.
(However, if Mommy Government had had the guts to call nicotine a “drug”, which it most certainly is, the FDA could have done this long ago.)
“But as a former psychologist, I can smell “disingenuous” when it permeates the air.”Many of your comments are too mean spirited for me to believe you were a practicing psychologist.
ConserveGov about 10 years ago
It’s called Free Market Economy Jimmy.CVS decided that selling cigarettes for short-term profits was out-weighed by negative public sentiment which could hurt long-term profits.The public let them know they did not agree with a store they go to for health remedies, selling a cancer-causing product.You see Morin, the government doesn’t always have to be Mommy.
alcors3 about 10 years ago
They gonna carry pot instead, man?
Subversive about 10 years ago
I do not understand this move away from selling a killer product. They already are the street level pusher for drugs that kill more people every year than all of the illicit street drugs in the whole world. At least my Pharma stocks are doing well.
cdward about 10 years ago
I doubt there’s really anything too benevolent going on. It was a profit-based decision. Fewer people are buying, and indeed, it gives them the illusion of making a principaled decision. If it really were a decision made for the public good, they would have made it decades ago. I suppose ere COULD be new leadership at CVS with a working conscience, but my gut tells me it’s all about profit. I doubt banning them would have worked, so government intervention beyond what it already does wouldn’t work.
I Play One On TV about 10 years ago
Personally, I don’t care what CVS’ motives were. The fact that there is one less place to purchase a product that provides nothing more than the promise of early death is something to be applauded.
(However, if Mommy Government had had the guts to call nicotine a “drug”, which it most certainly is, the FDA could have done this long ago.)
Jason Allen about 10 years ago
“But as a former psychologist, I can smell “disingenuous” when it permeates the air.”Many of your comments are too mean spirited for me to believe you were a practicing psychologist.