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Walgreens to hike minimum age for store tobacco sales Walgreens has decided to ban tobacco sales to minors several weeks after a federal official called the drugstore chain a top violator of laws restricting access to cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and other products
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Walgreens, one of the nations largest drugstore chains, is included in the Retail Pharmacy USA Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise
He chastised the company, saying Walgreens shouldnt be selling tobacco products, period. A top competitor, CVS, banned all tobacco sales in 2014, saying the sales conflicted with our purpose of helping people on their path to better health. Walgreens should recognize that there is a fundamental conflict between their mission as a health care provider and the sale of tobacco products, which are the number one cause of preventable death, Myers said in a statement
