cvs health stops selling tobacco Cigarettes and CVS Health joins our Quit

(CVS now runs 9,600 retail pharmacies, after taking over Targets (TGT) pharmacy business late last year.) The tobacco-exit and the new campaign are at least partly designed to help CVS ride the healthcare boom to the benefit of its fast-growing PBM, which processes prescription-drug programs for big companies and health insurers, and CVSs specialty pharmacy businesses

Will the halo from the public health praise be enough to make up for the hit to earnings

The red-and-white boxes, nearly the size of a cigarette pack, contain coupons, a card showing how much a smoker can save by quitting and a booklet with Sudoku and other games to distract someone fighting the urge to smoke

companies and insurers should make up for the lost tobacco sales, said David Larsen, an analyst with Leerink Partners in Boston

Speaker 4: It's been 10 years, and CVS Health has made such a huge impact, and we are poised to do even more

Industry analysts said CVSs decision to get rid of tobacco is also a reaction to a declining market.