burgertime2010
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As part of a "commitment to health" campaign CVS will stop selling tobacco, a 1.4 billion dollar hit yearly. I am interested what people believe is really going on, if this is good or bad, or right or wrong?
CVS to stop selling cigarettes
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jahbrudda
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Personally, I think it is a boneheaded business decision driven by cultural mania.
Is it right, of course it is, no one but CVS has the right to make that decision.
burgertime2010
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I am too cynical. It seems like a business decision in disguise.
burgertime2010
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Not really. More dead people=less repeat customers. I smell a fish.
robert 14617
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let them run there business into the ground however they see fit , all the problems we've had with them involving scrips in the past leads me to believe they are on there way out anyway
burgertime2010
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I don't know about the problems they have but a company with nothing to lose has no reason to bleed out for PR sake.
NLXSK1
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Yet they sell liquor, chocolate and sugar too!!!
burgertime2010
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I have no issue with it either but I am suspicious. Nothing they sell is healthy and I don't see corporations without a profit motive ever. I think they have ulterior motives.
None of those are the single leading cause of preventable death in the USA though.
kpmarine
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I though obesity actually surpassed smoking few years back?
Number of deaths for leading causes of death
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
Cigarette smoking greatly increases your risk for heart disease.http://www.cdc.gov/features/heartmonth/
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. It causes many different cancers as well as chronic lung diseases, such as emphysema and bronchitis, and heart disease. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/tobacco/smoking
Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/
According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity and overweight together are the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States, close behind tobacco use (3). An estimated 300,000 deaths per year are due to the obesity epidemic https://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/obesity/mortality.htm
Fatties need to make a 50% improvement to be as dead as tobacco users.
You obese smokers tell me who you are so i can get life insurance on you.
- Heart disease: 597,689
- Cancer: 574,743
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 138,080
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 129,476
- Accidents (unintentional injuries): 120,859
- Alzheimer's disease: 83,494
- Diabetes: 69,071
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,476
- Influenza and Pneumonia: 50,097
- Intentional self-harm (suicide): 38,364
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
Cigarette smoking greatly increases your risk for heart disease.http://www.cdc.gov/features/heartmonth/
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. It causes many different cancers as well as chronic lung diseases, such as emphysema and bronchitis, and heart disease. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/tobacco/smoking
Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/
According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity and overweight together are the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States, close behind tobacco use (3). An estimated 300,000 deaths per year are due to the obesity epidemic https://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/obesity/mortality.htm
Fatties need to make a 50% improvement to be as dead as tobacco users.
You obese smokers tell me who you are so i can get life insurance on you.
kpmarine
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No shit, smoking fatties could be the next big investment.
Dr Kynes
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i been deeply involved in the smoking fatties market for years.
i trade on that market daily.
if you clowns wanna start regulating my smoking fatties, theres gonna be war.
kpmarine
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Phrasing can be a double-edged sword. lol
yeah, it is their decision to make.
Around here most of the tobacco smokers buy at the local native american stores. The price is far less as many taxes are avoided
jahbrudda
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No one in my immediate family smokes other than my younger brother, but the smoke from cigarettes pales in comparison to what he puts in his lungs.
I don't like being around smokers, on the other hand, if people want to smoke, I say let them.