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CVS Decision Against Selling Tobacco Praised by Delmarvans

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If you stop by the local CVS store in October you won’t be able to by any tobacco products.It’s 76-hundred stores are dropping the product but managers hope to offset the loss by offering new health treatments and products  including smoking cessation program.

Delamrvans at a local CVS store in Salisbury said they were pleased with the decision.

The drug store chain that selling tobacco products was not consistent with its purpose of promoting health products.

 

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Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.