cvs health stops selling tobacco Quits Products Three Weeks Early After CVS Stopped Cigarette Sales,

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CVS Healths pledge to Quit Big Tobacco is a strong signal to our industry that cutting ties with the tobacco industry isnt just good practice- its good business. Quit Big Tobacco, an initiative of Vital Strategies, unites leading advertising agencies, public relations firms, and health-oriented organizations and brands to pledge not to work with the tobacco industry or agencies that do

"They are expanding on the basis of in-store clinics, deeper relationships with health plan customers and integrated health systems around the country." CVS operates 7,700 drugstores, 900 walk-in medical clinics and a pharmacy-benefits manager with almost 65 million members

The company has opened more than 1,100 in-store clinics through the MinuteClinic brand, adopted a new concept store model called HealthHUBs after a pilot in Houston and acquired health insurer Aetna

One could even argue that it was helped

The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars each year on cigarette and e-cigarette marketing, according to the Federal Trade Commission