cvs health stops selling tobacco Cigarettes and CVS stops selling tobacco, offers

Smoking-cessation products such as nicotine patches or gum will continue to be available at CVS/pharmacy locations, Dr

"Removing tobacco products from our stores is an important step in helping Americans to quit smoking and get healthy." The decision to exit the tobacco category does not affect the company's 2014 segment operating profit guidance, 2014 EPS guidance, or the company's five-year financial projections provided at its December 18 th Analyst Day

Smokers also tend to die 10 years before nonsmokers, according to the CDC

And that ultimately could more than make up for the traffic drop from the cigarette ban