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Cigarette Sales in Drugstores Come Under Fire
Posted by Sarah Rubenstein
There’s a new push to bolster public health by making it harder for people to consume unhealthy things.
First, there was New York’s new requirement that chain restaurants post the often eye-popping calorie counts of their meals in plain sight of customers ordering them. California just enacted a law against trans fats in restaurant food. Now, San Francisco is leading the charge against drugstores’ sales of tobacco products, the WSJ reports. It’s one of a number of efforts to pass state and city laws banning the sales of cigarettes at drugstores and retailers offering in-store health services.
The idea seems simple: End the contradiction of retailers catering to people’s health while at the same time selling products that are harmful. In addition to pharmacies, it’s targeting stores that have retail clinics. CVS Caremark, Wal-Mart and Walgreen are among the affected outlets.
In November, CEO Thomas Ryan of CVS said his company was considering eventually halting the sale of cigarettes. “We have a vision in our company to strive to improve human life, and it is a challenge around cigarettes,” he said at a conference. “It’s a big number from a dollar standpoint…We’ve had internal battles and discussions. I wouldn’t rule it out at some point down the road.”
Wal-Mart wouldn’t comment on legislative attempts to ban cigarettes, but in the past, CEO Lee Scott has indicated customer preferences dictate what it sells at its stores. “There are still a tremendous number of our customers who smoke,” he told Wall Street Journal editors at a recent meeting in New York. “We’ve got a market to serve, and second we’ve got shareholders to think about,” he added.
Calorie Bonus: WSJ Health Journal columnist Melinda Beck just took a look at those calorie counts posted in New York restaurants, and she found that even salads have bigger numbers than you might expect. 本人已认领本篇文章，若48小时未完成请其他战友自动认领。 [标签:content1][标签:content2]
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作者:admin@医学,生命科学 2011-08-12 17:22
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