On Thursday, February 6, 2014, Statesman published a commentary or a viewpoint from an article titled: No tobacco at CVS: What’s next? by Tara Trower Doolittle. She writes about her curiosity towards CVS Pharmacy drugstore chain decision to stop the selling of their tobacco products to help fight against smoking and nicotine addiction. From Doolittle’s viewpoint the public thinks it’s a brilliant idea since CVS is a Pharmacy that should increase the emphasis on health care. According to the company this decision estimates a $2 billion loss in sales related to tobacco products along with other incidental items. According to Doolittle this action will not help the fight against smoking and nicotine addiction. Doolittle wonders what the chain is not telling us. I think the authors intended audience is smokers in general, but I believe that we the rest of the people who are nonsmokers are more happy about this brilliant decision. I do believe that since CVS is a pharmacy it should promote public health care.
I get Dolittle’s viewpoint in that what’s next? Meaning that she is probably thinking were our freedom is left, but its not like the country is completely banning cigarettes, it is just a a decision from one company chain: CVS Pharmacies. I do think this article is important to read because if other store chains (like convenient stores) start doing the same thing this could be the start of something great for our current society.
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In the article "No Tabaco at CVS Pharmacies", Carolina Vasquez talks about the banning of cigarettes in CVS Pharmacies. I personally never thought that deeply into it until reading this blog post, but everything in it holds true. CVS is supposed to promote health care and healthy living etc., so why are they selling cigarettes? They do nothing but cause bodily harm to the user so it's a bit hypocritical that they would carry such product.
I don't believe cigarettes will banned nation wide because lets face it, the profit is way to good to ignore. I do feel as if we could some how minimize the widespread expansion of cigarettes and cigarette use because people are starting to smoke them at younger and younger ages everyday.
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