Secrets of the City

Looks like from the MPR piece, the powerbrokers have successfully kicked people in line. That’s Minnesota. We go along to get along. 
“A new state law is requiring convenience stores and other retailers to keep tobacco products behind the counter, rather than in appealing displays within easy reach of young customers.”
 
When was the last time anyone saw an “appealing display” of tobacco products at a convenience store? And if anyone fell prey said “appealing display” do you want them in the collective gene pool?

My Reign of Terror has only just begun, Rat.

Of that, I’m certain.

  Why not stop selling tobacco products at CVS and Walgreens?  These stores are supposed to sell things to make you well-not kill you or make you sick.  I don’t care how much money cigarettes bring in–it’s at the expense of people’s health.

That idea has come up in San Francisco, Nancy. Closer to home, Target stopped selling tobacco products in 1996. Wal-Mart still sells cigarettes in its U.S. stores, but not in Canada.

Nancy:
Would you be in favor of CVS and Walgreen’s deciding on their own whether or not to sell tobacco products? The Prairie Stone Pharmacy at the Lund’s in Northeast at one time didn’t sell tobacco products or lottery tickets. they’ve since begun selling lottery tickets. Presumably consumer pressure won out, there. That’s how things should work IMHO.

If the drug stores decided to do this on their own, as Target did, that would be fine by me. A lot of the big hotel chains have gone smokefree, not because they had to, but because it was a good business decision for them.
If more people and businesses did the right thing, we wouldn’t need so many laws and rules. Alas…

lol, walgreens selling things to make you well…
Last time I was in one I got lost in the cheetos isle.
 
 

I am anti-smoking, but firmly pro-Cheeto. I’m a complicated man.

So, is the “right thing to do” forcing Walgreens and CVS to stop selling cigarettes, Bob?

“Force” is too strong a word, Rat. I’m mounting a charm campaign.

From the Rahm Emanual School of Charm, I presume.

I roll more like Obama. I want to unite us all.
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.
Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a smoking America and a nonsmoking America — there is the United States of America!

Now, you, you and you take the butts outside.

@justpbob: Does the POTUS still sneak out behind the bushes for a heater?

A guy likes to think so. That he still has a cocky, rakish side.