Attention Smokers! Save at CVS!

**carlscomputers** · August-17-14, 05:38 PM

Attention Smokers! CVS Drugs is discontinuing cigarette sales, most brands are 50% off!!! Hurry before they're all gone!

**401don** · August-17-14, 05:43 PM

Why are the sales always on cancer-INDUCING drugs?

**lpg** · August-17-14, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by 401don

Why are the sales always on cancer-INDUCING drugs?

So you can come back and fill your cancer fighting prescriptions later.

**Honky Tonk** · August-17-14, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by carlscomputers

Attention Smokers! CVS Drugs is discontinuing cigarette sales, most brands are 50% off!!! Hurry before they're all gone!

ALL CVS or just the one in Hamtown?

**Jimaz** · August-17-14, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by Honky Tonk

ALL CVS or just the one in Hamtown?

I think it's all of CVS. It was a corporate-wide policy change for CVS.

**Meddle** · August-17-14, 08:59 PM

Attention Smokers! Save even more. Stop buying cancer sticks.

**Jimaz** · August-17-14, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by 401don

Why are the sales always on cancer-INDUCING drugs?

Good question but it might not be fair. I recall reading that CVS decided to take a loss on tobacco-sales profits in exchange for the health of their customers.

Suspicious, yes, because corporations rarely if ever deviate from maximizing profits. But let's suspend judgement for a while in case this might be a precedent for corporate responsibility.

That could be a game changer. [[I hope I don't have to eat my words.)

**Honky Tonk** · August-17-14, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by Jimaz

I think it's all of CVS. It was a corporate-wide policy change for CVS.

That IS a big brave step.

**Hermod** · August-18-14, 05:22 AM

Originally Posted by Honky Tonk

That IS a big brave step.

It will speed up the checkout lines. Clerk rings up sale, customer dithers a bit, then says "Gimme a pack of Doofus Gold 100s". Clerk turns around and looks at the imposing assortment of cigarette packs behind her and traces her finger over them one-by-one asking "This one?....". Clerk finally rings up adjusted sale, customer dithers some more trying to put the cigs away, and leaves.

**Gistok** · August-18-14, 06:13 AM

Originally Posted by Hermod

It will speed up the checkout lines. Clerk rings up sale, customer dithers a bit, then says "Gimme a pack of Doofus Gold 100s". Clerk turns around and looks at the imposing assortment of cigarette packs behind her and traces her finger over them one-by-one asking "This one?....". Clerk finally rings up adjusted sale, customer dithers some more trying to put the cigs away, and leaves.

Oh I don't know.... compared to looking for and scanning coupons... price checks... lottery tickets... and all around chit-chat with the clerk.... cigarettes aren't so bad... the clerks are usually pretty hip as to where the brands are, and which specific ones to pull off the shelf....

**Pam** · August-18-14, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by Meddle

Attention Smokers! Save even more. Stop buying cancer sticks.

Yeah really. Maybe they should put all stop smoking products on sale too.

**Smirnoff** · August-18-14, 08:38 AM

Are the "hookah" supplies also 1/2 off.....

**Hermod** · August-18-14, 10:17 AM

CVS is getting a lot of positive press about this. I wonder if Walgreens will follow suit?

**Detroitnerd** · August-18-14, 10:37 AM

I love how free people feel to scold about cigarettes.

It really shows you that it isn't a public health issue at all. It's a moral crusade.

**Honky Tonk** · August-18-14, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by Smirnoff

Are the "hookah" supplies also 1/2 off.....

How about the Zig-Zags?

**Honky Tonk** · August-18-14, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Hermod

It will speed up the checkout lines. Clerk rings up sale, customer dithers a bit, then says "Gimme a pack of Doofus Gold 100s". Clerk turns around and looks at the imposing assortment of cigarette packs behind her and traces her finger over them one-by-one asking "This one?....". Clerk finally rings up adjusted sale, customer dithers some more trying to put the cigs away, and leaves.

You're forgetting the "not those, the soft pack", "no not those, the 100's", "no, in the soft-pack", Ok, then give me the hard-pack"....conversation. Worked in a Detroit party store while @ WSU.

**Scottathew** · August-18-14, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by lpg

So you can come back and fill your cancer fighting prescriptions later.

This made me chuckle!

**Just_Some_Detroiter** · August-18-14, 12:58 PM

Smoking is quite a filthy habit, but a lot of us do it. I think CVS is burning itself by banning all tobacco sales.

**Detroitnerd** · August-18-14, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by Honky Tonk

You're forgetting the "not those, the soft pack", "no not those, the 100's", "no, in the soft-pack", Ok, then give me the hard-pack"....conversation. Worked in a Detroit party store while @ WSU.

"How much change I got left? OK, gimmie those two Philly blunt wraps. How much change I got left? I'm'a get two loose squares for a dollar, and -- how much left? …"

**Hermod** · August-18-14, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by Just_Some_Detroiter

Smoking is quite a filthy habit, but a lot of us do it. I think CVS is burning itself by banning all tobacco sales.

I would think that the folks in the head shed at CVS did a lot of number crunching and soul searching before they announced this. I think it may be a PR push to allow them to have a "doc in the box" at every store [[or more probably a NP). Go to the store, see the health care provider and proceed directly to the pharmacy.

**Honky Tonk** · August-18-14, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

"How much change I got left? OK, gimmie those two Philly blunt wraps. How much change I got left? I'm'a get two loose squares for a dollar, and -- how much left? …"

Another veteran!

**Jimaz** · August-18-14, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Hermod

I would think that the folks in the head shed at CVS did a lot of number crunching and soul searching before they announced this. I think it may be a PR push to allow them to have a "doc in the box" at every store [[or more probably a NP). Go to the store, see the health care provider and proceed directly to the pharmacy.

I was thinking the same thing.

I could imagine one argument in favor of this change might have gone something like "Sure we'll lose tobacco revenue now but if our customers live longer into their pharma-consumption years, we'll more than compensate for that loss."

They're currently building what I believe will be a new MinuteClinic inside the CVS near me.

**Jimaz** · August-18-14, 04:14 PM

I found a couple news items:

**Hermod** · August-18-14, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by Jimaz

I found a couple news items:

Short term pain versus potential long term gain.

**canuck** · August-18-14, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

I love how free people feel to scold about cigarettes.

It really shows you that it isn't a public health issue at all. It's a moral crusade.

Em, maybe a little of both actually.

Whatever happens to harm an individual or a group usually beckons moral choices and judgments. Everything from CIG smoke to CIG butts on a sidewalk bugs me. I can't help being bothered by it, but I never crusaded against smoking. I am however glad some people had the fortitude to fight for less smoke in the public space. I care less about smokers' rights than non-smokers' frankly.