cvs health stops selling tobacco says stopping sales has had big impact Kentucky health experts laud CVS

This innovative health care model increases access to quality care, delivers better health outcomes and lowers overall health care costs

Moreover, the good will generated by the ban might attract new customers, and by eliminating the sale of tobacco products in the same setting where diseases are diagnosed and treated, the company might reinforce a culture of improving health

Only 4 percent of cigarette sales are in drugstores

CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) announced today that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores across the U.S

Because from the physicians and nurses point of view, youre either all in for healthcare or youre not. He says he thinks that having been the first pharmacy to drop cigarettes will be a competitive advantage against other retail pharmacies because of the credibility it will give CVS when talking to physicians