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saying a retail pharmacy ban on sales would have little impact on reducing tobacco use

(CVS now runs 9,600 retail pharmacies, after taking over Targets (TGT) pharmacy business late last year.) The tobacco-exit and the new campaign are at least partly designed to help CVS ride the healthcare boom to the benefit of its fast-growing PBM, which processes prescription-drug programs for big companies and health insurers, and CVSs specialty pharmacy businesses

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Schroeder, Director, Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, University of California, San Francisco, wrote, "The paradox of cigarette sales in pharmacies has become even more relevant recently, in large part because of changes in the pharmacy industryMost pharmacy chains are retooling themselves as an integral part of the health care system

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