CVS Sells Poison Project

Drug stores are supposed to help us feel better when we are sick, right?

So have you ever thought about why cigarettes are available at the check out of these retailers? The very same lethal product that ends the life of over 400,000 Americans each year. The same product that causes cancer, heart disease, and emphysema that result in $75 billion in health care costs to treat. The same product that hooks hundreds of thousands of new, young smokers year in and year out.

One project is aimed at changing this contradiction in terms for CVS.

Check out the CVS sells poison project here: ww.ToxicTobaccoLaw.org/13news.shtml#CVS

Their objective is to get CVS pharmacy (over 7,000 stores, 500 medical clinics) to stop advertising, promoting, distributing and selling lethal, addictive cigarettes. CVS pharmacy claims to be the world's largest pharmacy health care provider, licensed by the states to promote health and provide care.

Check out their music video CVS sells poison The song at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjpqXQc4tKg or search for "CVS sells poison on YouTube. Over 6,000 views so far.

Last week, CVS Pharmacy was called upon "...to stop advertising, promoting, distributing and selling lethal, addictive cigarettes at its over 7,000 stores."

Earlier this year CVS's public relations department stated, "As a healthcare provider, we acknowledge that the sale of tobacco products in our stores is a challenging issue."

According to this Project's Director, Terence A. Gerace, PhD, "CVS should announce plans to stop selling cigarettes before Christmas 2011. Walgreens and Rite Aid will have to follow suit."