CVS gets healthy, stops tobacco sales early
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
While investors were "meh" over the declaration on 3 September by US drug store giant CVS that it was ending all tobacco sales immediately at all of its 7,700 retail locations rather than waiting for its earlier target date of 1 October, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and others had nothing but praise over the move.