cvs health stops selling tobacco Vows to Quit Products Lots Of Smoke As CVS

CVS changes name, ends tobacco sales early CVS Caremark Corp

CVS itself will continue to offer smoking cessation products and tobacco-education services in its stores

5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- 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

In an essay published in February in the Journal of the American Medical Association with Steven Schroeder, director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, CVS' Chief Medical Officer Troyen Brennan said reducing cigarette availability is another step toward taking tobacco use out of the mainstream and making it less socially acceptable

CVS has pulled tobacco products from its 7,700 stores three weeks ahead of schedule

(The company changed its name from CVS Caremark to CVS Health at about the time the last of cigarettes disappeared from store shelves in September of that year.) The company said on Thursday it would provide funding over five years to leading anti-tobacco and youth-oriented programs with a view to further reducing tobacco use among young people, under the name Be the First, a reference to the goal of making todays youth the first tobacco-free generation