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Volume 126 Issue 75
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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lretches and tobacco products from our store shelves, positioning us for a growing role in the health care delivery system," said Larry Merlo, president and CEO, in video statement released on cvs.com.
CVS estimated that it would lose about $2 billion dollars in sales from customers that enter the store to buy cigarettes and tobacco products.
Ashley Hrabe, a junior from Salina, is the founder of Breathe Easy At KU (BEAK), an organization that "promotes a healthy environment for all through a tobacco-free KU." The organization has administration and faculty support and is currently trying to gain student support for its initiative through student petitions. Its goal is to make the University a tobacco-free campus by July 1, 2015.
pus so that would include anything from cigarettes to chewing tobacco," Hrabe said.
Hrabe said that the program began with a slow start but is now picking up speed and recently received a grant from the Kansas Health Foundation to help pursue the organization's efforts.
Hrabe hopes that CVS no longer selling any tobacco products will start a trend in the tobacco industry. She also feels that CVS's program will help her own efforts on campus.
"I feel like they are definitely going to be a strong influence on [tobacco use] not only at KU but also in the Lawrence community," Hrabe said. Carlos Calderon, a freshman from Leavenworth, has been smoking for the past year and a half. Calderon said on average he smokes about every three
“It's really good that CVS is getting rid of cigarettes because it's saving lives,” Calderon said. “I smoke but I don't advocate for it. It's horrible and if I could take it back and not have started smoking I totally would and I recommend nobody start.”
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"The FDA can try all they want, but smokers will still have their way."
Although Calderon thinks that CVS no longer selling cigarettes and tobacco products is a step in the right direction, he thinks that it will be difficult to wipe out all cigarettes and tobacco product sales.
CVS pharmacy will stop selling cigarettes and tobacco products nationwide, beginning Oct. 1,2014. The company stands to lose an estimated $2 billion dollars in sales.
Facts from American Lung Association 1. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals.
2. About 8.6 million people in the U.S. have at least one serious illness caused by smoking
3. Among current smokers, chronic lung disease accounts for 73 percent of smoking-related conditions.
4. Men who smoke die 13.2 years earlier than men who do not smoke.
5. Women who smoke die 14.5 years earlier than women who do not smoke.
6. Smoking causes about 90 percent of lung cancer related deaths.
Index CLASSIFIEDS 11 CRYPTOQUIPS 5 SPORTS 12 CROSSWORD 5 OPINION 4 SUDOKU 5
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