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An Unfortunate and Avoidable Component of American Pharmacy: Tobacco

If there was a drug contained within a delivery device provided through pharmacies that had a mortality associated with its use amounting to over 450,000 deaths in the United States and was a leading contributor to untold morbidity, would not our collective voice be heard to eliminate this product from our pharmacy milieus? The product is nicotine wrapped in the deadly delivery mechanism of cigarettes and other tobacco products.

Of the roughly 60,000 pharmacies in the United States, about 70% are chain community pharmacies or food market-based pharmacies. Tobacco is sold in almost all of these pharmacies, with the exception of a few. Traditional chains, mass merchandiser and food ...

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