walgreens on tobacco road They should stop selling tobacco.' raises age for sales but some say policy doesn't go far enough. – Chicago Tribune Here's what happened at Walgreens

In late 2014, Walgreens nemesis, CVS Health, decided to stop selling tobacco products at its stores (the change coincided with a name switch from CVS Caremark to CVS Health)

After all, Walgreens has grown dependent on these lucrative products and justifies selling the stuff, which medical experts have linked to causing cancer, as being an homage to free enterprise and a mark of respect for consumer choice. But Walgreens is fooling itself if it thinks selling coffin nails and the like from behind the checkout counter is in the public interest

Walgreens co-chief operating officer Alex Gourlay told shareholders last month that the company is looking at what happens to customers in Gainesville who are used to buying cigarettes and no longer do now that the stores dont sell them

Because people want to smoke Amid FDA allegations that minors purchase cigarettes at its stores, Walgreens says it's not going to stop selling tobacco products at all its stores due to the negative fallout from consumers