CVS to stop selling cigarettes

[KoihimeNakamura]

Speaking as someone working in a C-store: lotto tickets are the big time waster in terms of people spending time at the counter making up their mind.

 

[sadhatter]

Interesting and a good idea I think. Of course in Ireland (and the UK) pharmacies don't sell tobacco products

So I'm a smoker and pharmacy assistant ( hopefully getting into school next year for pharmacist.) And while we don't sell smokes at my pharmacy, in some provinces the chain does.

On one hand I'd love to be able to do just about all my shopping at work , on the other i agree with many others that a pharmacy has no business selling smokes. Its a medical facility for all intents and purposes, and something just doesn't sit right with me with selling champix and cigarettes in the same place.

It would be like if all drugs were legal and heroin was sold at a methadone clinic. Something just doesn't pass the smell . test .

Then again i dislike how pharmacies seem to be becoming grocery stores that also dispensemedicine, so my views are not exactly that of most in positions of power.

 

[quadraginta]

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Then again i dislike how pharmacies seem to be becoming grocery stores that also dispensemedicine, so my views are not exactly that of most in positions of power.

How do you feel about grocery stores that decide to add a pharmacy?

 

[angrysoba]

It would be like if all drugs were legal and heroin was sold at a methadone clinic.

Although, as far as I know, it is disputed as to how useful methadone treatment is, is it not? So maybe it is not really that different from handing out heroin at a heroin clinic.

Something just doesn't pass the smell . test .

Methadone is an effective maintenance therapy intervention for the treatment of heroin dependence as it retains patients in treatment and decreases heroin use better than treatments that do not utilise opioid replacement therapy. It does not show a statistically significant superior effect on criminal activity or mortality.

This also smells a bit wiffy. Essentially, methadone keeps people coming back for more rather than non-heroin-like medication, but doesn't stop the major adverse effects such as crime or death.

 

[elgarak]

Pretty sure I've seen pharmacies in grocery-type stores in Europe (Germany comes to mind) that also sell tobacco and alcohol. I could be mistaken, though.

Nope.

Pharmacies (which are licensed to sell prescription drugs) are always separate stores in Germany. Pharmacies do not, and never have, stocked cigarettes. The only alcohol they sell is in medicinal products. They do have candies, but only with medical purposes in mind (like cough drops).

Sometimes the pharmacies are located in the entrance area to larger supermarkets, but they are physically separated, though may share a costumer entrance with the larger store.

The larger supermarkets usually stock non-prescription remedies (food additives, vitamins, some homeopathic stuff).

Haven't seen a cigarette vending machine in years. Typically, tobacco is sold either in tobacco stores, or in locked areas in the supermarkets (behind a manned counter, so you have to ask a clerk, or in locked shelves near the checkouts, or with dispensing machines at the belt that dispense small number of packages (1 or 2) only).