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CBS's banning all tobacco products from its stores they are set to lose about $2
billion dollars annually as a result of this but they want to do it because they
want to be known as a
an establishment that helps people stay healthy so let me read you with the CEO
had to say about this
Larry Merlo says we have about 26,000 pharmacist the nurse practitioners
helping patients manage chronic problems like high cholesterol
high blood pressure and heart disease all which are linked to smoking
we came to this decision or the decision that cigarettes are providing health
care just don't go together in the same setting
so he's basically saying like look it's a little bit
love up hypocrisy I'd have to say that we want people to stay healthy but at
the same time we're selling unhealthy products like cigarettes
but at the same time it's important to keep in mind that CBS all all sorts of
things that are good for your health including cookies in
and ice cream in wow how do you decide you know
what you will and won't sell password civilized people and we make a decision
that the one product we sell that is the unhealthiest
by far in a landslide our sector all yen here at a reasonable decision
so there's no redeeming quality too isn't already in class 7a yet rated me
know where the cookies delicious yes
yet to correctly I'll so perhaps I have strong opinions on the streusel
did will literally not doing it at a goodness they're hard
this no doing is like clinics inside the pharmacies a
booming business and partly because the portable Care Act ganic several other
market forces
they already have 800 have these minute clinics inside CBS 2
leading in that category for pharmacies across country for everybody actually
cross country
and he there at seven hundred more so this is basically a marketing move
saying
CBS is that healthy place come to our many clinics were making a lot more
money than we were aunts
selling cigarettes right that doesn't mean it's a bad thing
still bless their hearts are aching their turnout
about they say about two billion dollars in business
two million two billion now okay what now so no no no
so what is in cigarette sales which by the way
it yeah I know in New York is the high taxes it actually is a
predict for the guys running to grocery stores a little guys
actually make it kinda money of cigarettes they love it when people come
see that's why they put cigarettes up front but that's the first thing you'll
see New York
and the grocery store associate so let's not get significant business that
they're giving up
plus the guys going to buy cigarettes ready by seven by augmenting islands
and now he's got a good he gots and a and then he's getting
now they got a good those guys go to their competitor so it's still a ballsy
decision
write it up you know the one saying that you're going to get sick yaa
so I commend him for it both for moral reasons but also for
loose recent business reasons yeah it's a their
thinking ahead they think we're gonna make a lot more money oh these clinics
that we're at us on this one product even though it sells well
an although and they'd be there is also declining sales in tobacco to
yeah I was thinking ahead said and on the issue of the cookies and stuff
I say get off their *** I mean like Goku 12 on Sunday mother teresa
real no I'm not advocating that they ban cookies and ice cream and all that other
stuff I just think that
you have to let Americans make decisions for themselves right so
who are you to decide that tobacco is the one thing that's really unhealthy
your
and I get it to back oh is I mean cigarettes are extremely windy did it is
the one thing I get
I get but it me people are addicted to really fatty unhealthy foods sugar is
really really bad for your health as well
so what are you gonna do you miss all the sudden like 10 years as I like we're
not gonna sell cookies like they sell out they sell tequila
base after all that's another thing they saw on cbs2
thank you for bringing that up alcohol related to a number a health issue
witnesses I mean I hear you but this to be ends up being the
did the example that all used all the day I die you going to a liquor store
you going to a 7-Eleven
and you think I'm gonna be devious as I used to do occasion arms dealer
newspaper agree by other stuff you're such a bad boy died I'll send you won't
be a little bit more
a little okay that he went from one percent to 1.1 percent but from last man
standing to
again they can be two guys left at one of them was you know what for
pomp and media by that that's a crime
right and going into that same 7-Eleven and pistol whipping the
clerk and stealing the cash register as your you've committed robbery talks
right right but we distinguish we know the difference
one is horrible one of them is K seriously stop doing that and to be
protected
right and cigarettes are as to what the clock like
we know that they kill people and they kill people quickly and their
addictive instantly unlike unlike people
nobody comes in yeah I get it there's like 50 girls in the world who
go out whenever whiskey like to have a cigarette you know but are cosmopolitan
like to have a cigarette butt basically
people buy cigarettes keep buying cigarettes because they're addicted to
them and they just
destroy your life in a way that for example the issue we talked all about
yesterday
marijuana just simply does not II gotta give you some amazing stuff
yet can I can I to us that person go over my
promised that I would allow the standoff good my favorite artistic from the story
only about 18 percent of Americans smoke
that down from 42 percent in 1960 by
Wow bananas that's why you don't ban things you don't do a prohibition
we do is you educate people about how unhealthy something is
and then they stop do he can realistically we get to the point if it
goes from 42 percent done realistically they can't do this because
there too many people they don't want cigarettes and woke up another store to
buy the other stuff they want you to buy at CVS to get their prescriptions filled
ago the place that
lorette now it's down eighteen percent you know what
we don't have to sell everything and that's only one in five people
were prepared to lose that this but don't you think do you think that we
would have got that number down to eighty percent if we can lock up a lot
of people for smoking
I got a lot of people up be happy to send the wrong message if you say it's
okay to smoke cigarettes more kids are gonna smoke cigar
that we would never got that number down without serve the warrants that without
the war on the waco and locking people up especially black kids
yeah okay its oath
I those reminded members that he and I will determine
who's that is more press well it's hard to be that one and i was going to leave
without one but they are
okay but maybe two things lol by that's that alright by fast favor is that of
course the drop which is so dramatic and so great
but also that he teen percent of americans still smoke
totally isn't that amazing you know I
there was a member of my life I don't know anyone still smokes I know maybe
one person was close
right no no I'm wrong about that actually know three or four people this
was
maybe eighty percent no bed know but and of course I live in a different
subculture that
than other parts too but Cal 8.2 percent is really a high school
some surprised by that and this feature which the standard others that I wasn't
give his
about 480 80,000 people
still die each year because of smoking-related illness same
half a million people die every year has a smoking
that is such a huge fight
yeah I think we're gonna make a surprising decision will check Jan
fathoms rasberry
violate me is this course is that we've ever had lol yes it never got it could
go either way deferred a heads up the ball he both played well
whatever your you don't agree got her