CVS to stop selling cigarettes

Modified said:
I hate shopping for liquor in a liquor store (state store, ABC store, or whatever they are called locally) with minimal selection, high prices, and some clerk hovering over you. Fortunately we have Total Wine, a supermarket of alcohol. When you buy your favorite rum in gallon jugs, it's much cheaper.
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When I lived in Annapolis there were virtually no restrictions. One of the most well stocked liquor stores I've ever seen was down by the city docks, Mills Liquor. Only place I've ever been that you could buy Laphroaig in pint bottles.

The front wasn't all that prepossessing but they had a BIG back end. All the yachts traveling down the ICW would pull in there to stock up for the long dry spell on the way down south. I think they had one of the highest volumes of sale of any liquor store in the east. Folks would tie up at the pier and haul cases of booze across the street to their boats.

Also little Mom and Pop operations that stayed open all the time. I bought whiskey on Christmas morning one year for a present for my uncle. It was 6:00am and I was on my way to PA.
 
quadraginta said:
You mean like this?

Fox Freaks Out Over CVS Ending Sales Of Tobacco
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Fox Host: "Is It OK Legally ... To Restrict Tobacco Availability In A Private Store Like This?"
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I saw that story earlier tonight. Is she actually making the argument that stores in the US should be forced by the government to sell products that they don't want to sell?
 
sarge said:
Are cigarettes not sold in Australia?

CVS is a convenience store with a pharmacy in the back. I respect their decision to stop selling a product that represents 3% of their profit (according to the CEO on NPR yesterday), but I have no problem with other drug stores selling cigarettes. I don't see any logic for the practice being prohibited, and find it strange that Australia would do so.
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To help our foreign friends. CVS is much more than what you imagine as a convenience store. Many are open 24 and will sell everything from hammers to printer ink to alarm clocks to toys to inspirational books (religious and non-religious). They also have a very large over the counter medicine department. With few exceptions, they have everything a person might want at 2 a.m. Plus a lot of makeup. Plus a lot of seasonal products: folding lawn chairs to light-up Santa Clauses.
 
Sherman Bay said:
Is being a hypocrite also a fallacy?
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CVS has given up selling cigarettes precisely because they have been successfully stigmatized in popular culture.

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Renmarkable said:
god! it's amazing you don't have more nuts with guns then... :)
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It really depends on which state you're in. Here in California, no, you would not be able to purchase a gun from a drugstore, as drugstores are generally not licensed firearms dealers. Same with Hawaii. You'd have to go to a licensed firearms dealer. In some other states, the laws are not as stringent.
 
OK, with the knowledge that each state is different, say I want to buy a gun, what do I have to do to get one?
 
Renmarkable said:
OK, with the knowledge that each state is different, say I want to buy a gun, what do I have to do to get one?
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This is extremely off topic for the thread, but I'll answer anyways.

Not much, basically just go in and lay your money down. It's pretty easy, even in California. There's a 10-day waiting period for handguns in California, though. They'll run a background check, which you'll pass if you're not a felon.
Don't know how it is in other states, but in California you have to pass a handgun safety test, which is just a few written questions, and you have to show that you can safely check if the handgun is loaded or not and that you know how to unload it properly.
Buying shotguns and rifles is much simpler.
 
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Renmarkable said:
OK, with the knowledge that each state is different, say I want to buy a gun, what do I have to do to get one?
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Doghouse Reilly said:
This is extremely off topic for the thread, but I'll answer anyways.
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Yeah, it's not just off-topic for the thread, but there seem to have been a million and one threads on guns, gun law, and rights to have guns that infest the JREF forums.

Renmarkable seems to be fairly new to the forums so may not know about that. But let's try not to indulge any more talk of guns.
 
angrysoba said:
Yeah, it's not just off-topic for the thread, but there seem to have been a million and one threads on guns, gun law, and rights to have guns that infest the JREF forums.

Renmarkable seems to be fairly new to the forums so may not know about that. But let's try not to indulge any more talk of guns.
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Yeah, agreed. In retrospect, I should have directed him or her elsewhere.
 
I'm not particularly new to this forum, but it just struck me as genuinely interesting. it's something I hadn't considered before, and it certainly seemed to me to be a valid question. after all, isn't that a decent proportion of the concept of scepticism? I was also unaware there is a forum policing that means you're only allowed to ask certain questions. I won't make that same mistake again.
 
Renmarkable said:
I'm not particularly new to this forum, but it just struck me as genuinely interesting. it's something I hadn't considered before, and it certainly seemed to me to be a valid question. after all, isn't that a decent proportion of the concept of scepticism? I was also unaware there is a forum policing that means you're only allowed to ask certain questions. I won't make that same mistake again.
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It's not that you're not allowed to ask certain questions. It's just general forum etiquette. See Rule 11 of the membership agreement: "You will not deliberately attempt to derail threads or start threads in the wrong section."

Not to say that you were deliberately trying to derail the thread...I'm sure you weren't, it was natural thread drift. Housekeeping point number 1 is relevant, though:

"H1. Off topic posts may be moved to new threads. While some thread drift is to be expected, threads can end up with multiple separate discussions running in parallel. In such cases some posts may be split to one or more new threads to make them easier to find and follow. Members can request for such derails to be split to a new thread."

It's not a big deal, it's just that there have been so many threads on gun issues that it's better to try to not get into it in other threads.
 
Renmarkable said:
No, chemist shops do not sell cigarettes in Australia. the only places you can buy smokes from now are supermarkets <snip>
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So you don't have any supermarkets in Australia that also have pharmacies in them??

Or perhaps if they do, then that particular supermarket can't sell tobacco and others that do not can?
 
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Renmarkable said:
I guess I'm baffled, because in all the countries I been in, I have never seen any pharmacy style store that would also sell alcohol and tobacco. However, thus is in a country that considers it appropriate to sell guns the same way, so why should I be surprised?
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In the USA it is more like;

"You don't have Radial Tires??! And you call yourselves a Drug Store..."
 
Accidental Martyr said:
I saw that story earlier tonight. Is she actually making the argument that stores in the US should be forced by the government to sell products that they don't want to sell?
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When I've been to CVS, I've noticed a severe lack of porno magazines. Someone has to do something about that.
 
pgwenthold said:
When I've been to CVS, I've noticed a severe lack of porno magazines. Someone has to do something about that.
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Good point. I think all Christian book stores should also be required by law to sell porno magazines. Someone get Fox News on this story!
 
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