CVS Pulls The Plug on Cigarettes

CVS will stop selling tobacco in the US by October.

In a bold and perhaps, juggernaut move, CVS has decided to stop selling tobacco products. According to nbcnews.com, cigarettes and tobacco products will be put out for good in 7,600 retail stores in the US by October. Apparently, CVS is leaning towards keeping Americans healthy. Even President Barack Obama managed to praise CVS doing its daring move.

Will CVS lose money by stop selling tobacco products? How's $2 billion a year sound? It's amazing that life-threatening products generate that much revenue. In any event, its courageous of CVS to take a stand against tobacco in this manner and I applaud them, too. After all, this is a capitalist society, but to sacrifice $2 billion to keep Americans healthy? That's called change. 

Although CVS isn't the first business to halt the sales of tobacco, it is the first large, retail pharmacy to do so. The American Pharmacists Association and American Medical Association have been pressuring stores that have pharmacies to stop selling tobacco for years. In 1996, Target stores stopped selling tobacco. 

I guess Rite Aid and Walmart are next? After all, it's a conflict of interest -- how you do have a pharmacy that's supposed to improve health, but sell tobacco at the same time?

It's not always about money. Sometimes it's about doing what's right. Stop selling cancer-sticks.