Owner of Longs Drugs to Stop Selling Tobacco Products

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Our media partner KITV has the report. Excerpt:

CVS Caremark is kicking the habit of selling tobacco products at its more than 7,600 drugstores nationwide as it focuses more on providing health care.

CVS/pharmacy owns and operates Longs Drugs in Hawaii.

The nation’s second-largest drugstore chain said Wednesday that it will phase out cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco by Oct. 1, a move that will cost about $2 billion in annual revenue but won’t affect its 2014 earnings forecast.

CVS Caremark leaders say removing tobacco will help them grow the company’s business of working with doctors, hospitals and other care providers to improve customers’ health. …

Read my little rant: Butting Out — the End of Cigarettes.

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Photo: Longs. (KITV)

—Chad Blair

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