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yeh i never make a big deal out of it. when I have a pack, I just give them to people. Then i get the ******* that hands me one when he sees a dollar. Glad to be dropping them altogether.
Official Smoking Cessation Thread Vol. We Can Quit
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I smoked for a few months and I had smoked a lot of Newports .. I bet I won't pick up another cig man. The reality is real.
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Never smoked a cigarette in my life
Smoked alotta weed
Smoked alotta hookah pens
Still alive
You do the math
Smoked alotta weed
Smoked alotta hookah pens
Still alive
You do the math
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People with skitzo and other illnesses of the mind tend to smoke cigs and stuff., I'm not really sure what it all means spritually but yeah I did it before and didn't totally like it..
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Don't know if that's true or not, but I guess you have to be a little crazy to participate in something you know is bad for you.
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You can say that for a lot of things.
You can say that for a lot of things.
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In a weird way the more they push this non smoking agenda and banning spots to chief, the more I don't give a fuh and light up my kool.
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I never smoked a cigarette or black but I can't put the tree down...dnt know if I really want to
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Thats what prompted me to make this thread, I'm watchin people on tv pull their grill out of their mouth and have holes in ther throats like that ish ain't cool. We need a tobacco free NT.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...-steps-selling-tobacco-changes-name/14967821/
CVS stops selling tobacco, offers quit-smoking programs
Jayne O'Donnell and Laura Ungar, USA TODAY 12:59 a.m. EDT September 3, 2014
(Photo: M. Spencer Green, AP)
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CVS Caremark plans to stop selling tobacco products in all of its stores starting Wednesday — a move health experts hope will be followed by other major drugstore chains.
CVS announced in February that it planned to drop tobacco by Oct. 1 as the sales conflicted with its health care mission. To bolster its image as a health care company, CVS will announce a corporate name change to CVS Health. Retail stores will still be called CVS/Pharmacy.
CVS, which has 7,700 retail locations, is the second-largest drugstore chain in the USA, behind Walgreens. It manages the pharmacy benefits for 65 million members and has 900 walk-in medical clinics.
The American Pharmacists Association called on drugstores to stop selling tobacco in March 2010 and several small, independent chains have done so, APA spokeswoman Michelle Spinnler says. CVS is the first large chain to stop tobacco sales.
"CVS' announcement to stop selling tobacco products fully a month early sends a resounding message to the entire retail industry and to its customers that pharmacies should not be in the business of selling tobacco," said Matthew Myers, president of the Washington-based Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "This is truly an example of a corporation leading and setting a new standard."
CVS is also launching a smoking-cessation campaign that will include an assessment of the smoker's "readiness to quit," education, medication support to help curb the desire to use tobacco and coaching to help people stay motivated and avoid relapses.
CVS says research shows its decision will have a big impact. A study the company is releasing Wednesday in the journal Health Affairs shows bans at pharmacies in Boston and San Francisco led to more than 13% fewer purchasers. Smokers didn't just switch where they bought cigarettes and other tobacco products, some stopped buying them altogether. About 900 households in the two cities recorded everything they bought after the bans went into effect.
Troyen Brennan, CVS' chief medical officer, says if the results were extrapolated for pharmacies across the USA, it would lead to 65,000 fewer deaths a year.
Ellen Hahn of the Tobacco Policy Research Program at the University of Kentucky says one chain not selling tobacco will have a limited effect, and other tobacco control strategies, such as price and tax increases and smoking bans, have been shown to be more effective.
Still, she said, "every little bit helps because they are such a large chain. If every pharmacy would follow suit, that would be best. But this sends a clear message that pharmacies should not be selling tobacco."
Audrey Silk, founder of Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, or CLASH, a national smokers' rights group based in New York City, says CVS has every right to change what it sells, but she believes the company is falling for the anti-smoking "crusade."
Pharmacies no longer sell just medicines, she said, "they have turned into grocery stores. They sell candy. They sell beer. CVS Health? It's a perception war. ... Tobacco is legal. They're engaging in public coercion by not selling cigarettes."
CVS says its tobacco sales total about $2 billion a year.
Marlboro cigarettes are for sale in a CVS store in Pittsburgh in July 2013.(Photo: Gene J. Puskar, AP)
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls tobacco "the single most preventable cause of disease, disability and death in the United States," saying 443,000 people die from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke each year.
Tobacco deaths are very personal to two top CVS executives. CEO Larry Merlo's father died of tobacco-related cancer at age 57 and the mother of CVS/Pharmacy President Helene Foulkes died five years ago of lung cancer from smoking.
After its announcement in February, Foulkes says CVS was deluged with personal stories from customers who had quit smoking. Many said it was the "hardest thing they had ever done," she says. The company is determined to make it easier for them, she says, because it simply makes sense.
"The contradiction of selling tobacco was becoming a growing obstacle to playing a bigger role in health care delivery," Merlo says.
CVS stops selling tobacco, offers quit-smoking programs
Jayne O'Donnell and Laura Ungar, USA TODAY 12:59 a.m. EDT September 3, 2014
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CVS Caremark plans to stop selling tobacco products in all of its stores starting Wednesday — a move health experts hope will be followed by other major drugstore chains.
CVS announced in February that it planned to drop tobacco by Oct. 1 as the sales conflicted with its health care mission. To bolster its image as a health care company, CVS will announce a corporate name change to CVS Health. Retail stores will still be called CVS/Pharmacy.
CVS, which has 7,700 retail locations, is the second-largest drugstore chain in the USA, behind Walgreens. It manages the pharmacy benefits for 65 million members and has 900 walk-in medical clinics.
The American Pharmacists Association called on drugstores to stop selling tobacco in March 2010 and several small, independent chains have done so, APA spokeswoman Michelle Spinnler says. CVS is the first large chain to stop tobacco sales.
"CVS' announcement to stop selling tobacco products fully a month early sends a resounding message to the entire retail industry and to its customers that pharmacies should not be in the business of selling tobacco," said Matthew Myers, president of the Washington-based Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "This is truly an example of a corporation leading and setting a new standard."
CVS is also launching a smoking-cessation campaign that will include an assessment of the smoker's "readiness to quit," education, medication support to help curb the desire to use tobacco and coaching to help people stay motivated and avoid relapses.
CVS says research shows its decision will have a big impact. A study the company is releasing Wednesday in the journal Health Affairs shows bans at pharmacies in Boston and San Francisco led to more than 13% fewer purchasers. Smokers didn't just switch where they bought cigarettes and other tobacco products, some stopped buying them altogether. About 900 households in the two cities recorded everything they bought after the bans went into effect.
Troyen Brennan, CVS' chief medical officer, says if the results were extrapolated for pharmacies across the USA, it would lead to 65,000 fewer deaths a year.
Ellen Hahn of the Tobacco Policy Research Program at the University of Kentucky says one chain not selling tobacco will have a limited effect, and other tobacco control strategies, such as price and tax increases and smoking bans, have been shown to be more effective.
Still, she said, "every little bit helps because they are such a large chain. If every pharmacy would follow suit, that would be best. But this sends a clear message that pharmacies should not be selling tobacco."
Audrey Silk, founder of Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, or CLASH, a national smokers' rights group based in New York City, says CVS has every right to change what it sells, but she believes the company is falling for the anti-smoking "crusade."
Pharmacies no longer sell just medicines, she said, "they have turned into grocery stores. They sell candy. They sell beer. CVS Health? It's a perception war. ... Tobacco is legal. They're engaging in public coercion by not selling cigarettes."
CVS says its tobacco sales total about $2 billion a year.
Marlboro cigarettes are for sale in a CVS store in Pittsburgh in July 2013.(Photo: Gene J. Puskar, AP)
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls tobacco "the single most preventable cause of disease, disability and death in the United States," saying 443,000 people die from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke each year.
Tobacco deaths are very personal to two top CVS executives. CEO Larry Merlo's father died of tobacco-related cancer at age 57 and the mother of CVS/Pharmacy President Helene Foulkes died five years ago of lung cancer from smoking.
After its announcement in February, Foulkes says CVS was deluged with personal stories from customers who had quit smoking. Many said it was the "hardest thing they had ever done," she says. The company is determined to make it easier for them, she says, because it simply makes sense.
"The contradiction of selling tobacco was becoming a growing obstacle to playing a bigger role in health care delivery," Merlo says.
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I want to quit but i'm not ready, only smoke a few a day, i've never been a pack a day, more a pack a week.
but I do need to stop
but I do need to stop
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Sounds right.. CVS marked down stoggies to 3-4$ a pack. Cool weather coming through which makes it harder to quit :x
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I always wonder what mine look like. I been smoking green since 2000 and cigs since 01 I believe. Never been a pack a day guy. usually never buy packs TOO CHEAP...I only hope its not too late
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Glad I didn't pick up cigarettes. One puff gets my stomach churning and I get really light headed. Harsh as hell too but I know it's something to get used too. Green on the other hand got me messed up. I want to quit but not right now. I do need to slow down though.
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I started smokin when I was 13....I quit cold turkey last year before I hit 31 years old....i haven't touched a cigg in a year and 5 months....also been clean of weed for almost 3 years now
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heard its good to go to a sauna for a couple days in a row to sweat all the nicotine out