Attention Smokers! Save at CVS!

[carlscomputers]

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

[401don]

Why are the sales always on cancer-INDUCING drugs?

[lpg]

Why are the sales always on cancer-INDUCING drugs?

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

[Scottathew]

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

This made me chuckle!

[Jimaz]

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.)

[Wesley Mouch]

Why are the sales always on cancer-INDUCING drugs?

Because the price of these items so exceeds their actual production costs that there's lots of room for price reductions.

While meanwhile up the 401 your immensely-paternal government agency chews on a ban on electronic cigarettes in spite of the fact that they have actually helped many people step down from real cigarettes [[I can say from personal experience).

[Honky Tonk]

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]

ALL CVS or just the one in Hamtown?

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

[Honky Tonk]

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

That IS a big brave step.

[Hermod]

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]

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....

[Honky Tonk]

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.

[Meddle]

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

[Pam]

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

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

[Smirnoff]

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

[Honky Tonk]

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

How about the Zig-Zags?

[Hermod]

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

[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.

[canuck]

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.

[Detroitnerd]

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.

I know I'll get crap for saying this, but protecting individual rights even when they annoy us or seem self-destructive is vital in a functioning democracy.

That said, if it were all done in the spirit of a public health campaign, without the finger-wagging and fines and citations, I'd get behind it, even as a smoker. [[And I might drop some paper or tobacco in public, but I pocket my filters.)

[Hermod]

I know I'll get crap for saying this, but protecting individual rights even when they annoy us or seem self-destructive is vital in a functioning democracy.

That said, if it were all done in the spirit of a public health campaign, without the finger-wagging and fines and citations, I'd get behind it, even as a smoker. [[And I might drop some paper or tobacco in public, but I pocket my filters.)

Are your individual rights violated by a business deciding to stop carrying a certain product line?

[Pam]

I know I'll get crap for saying this, but protecting individual rights even when they annoy us or seem self-destructive is vital in a functioning democracy.

That said, if it were all done in the spirit of a public health campaign, without the finger-wagging and fines and citations, I'd get behind it, even as a smoker. [[And I might drop some paper or tobacco in public, but I pocket my filters.)

You don't really have a right to pollute everyone else's air though. That's why it's not just an issue of individual rights. Thanks for pocketing your filters. You must be one of the few who do since I see butts everywhere.

[Jimaz]

A weird bit of science:

Cigarette Butts May Help Birds Ward Off Parasites

As horrifying as the idea of baby birds growing up in a cigarette-filled home sounds, a new study suggests that some birds may benefit from weaving the fluffy plastic from cigarette butts into their nests. The nicotine lingering in smoked filters may serve as a natural insecticide, driving parasites and other harmful insects away from the nests and the baby birds living within. [[Tobacco plants generate nicotine because it defends against insects and their larvae that would otherwise devour the plants.)...

In the study, researchers at the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala in Mexico set up heat traps, which attract parasites, in 55 nests around Mexico City. Some traps were lined with filter fluff from smoked cigarette filters. The others were lined with fluff from unsmoked filters, which did not contain nicotine and other smoking by-products. Whether the nest held eggs, chicks or nothing, the unsmoked cigarette traps collected more parasites, suggesting the chemicals drove parasites away and not another property of the filters.

In a second experiment, the researchers collected 28 house sparrow nests and 29 house finch nests from Mexico City immediately after the chicks flew out for good. They found that the more smoked filter fluff padded a nest, the fewer parasites it had.

The missing piece of the puzzle is whether the reduced parasite load in the nests actually provided any benefit to the chicks. It is also unclear if nicotine or another chemical found in cigarettes, such as hydrogen cyanide, arsenic or ammonia, may have turned the parasites out of the nests.

... but I pocket my filters.)

Bird hater.

Kidding! just kidding!

[ABetterDetroit]

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.

For myself it is really about giving a damn, and not enjoying watching youth make the same stupid mistakes I made. I enjoy watching the human species evolve for the better and it happens every day. But aggressively putting smoke in the lungs of people that are young, just not a good thing, so I wish it would slow more. I see so many beautiful young people smoke hard these days, and my life experience has taught me that if they don't stop they will grow old to be ugly or dead. Kind of a shitty choice .

[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.