September 20, 2019 by Chain Drug Review
e-cigarettes, Walmart
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart will stop selling e-cigarettes and other vaping products, the company said Friday. The move comes in the wake of reports that more than 500 people in the United States have contracted a lung disease that is believed to be linked to vaping. Eight people have died from the condition. Concerns about
September 12, 2019 by Chain Drug Review
e-cigarettes, FDA, Trump administration
Leading Headlines
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans to remove all flavored e-cigarettes from store shelves in an ever widening crackdown on vaping, as officials warned that sweet flavors had drawn millions of children into nicotine addiction. President Trump and top U.S. officials expressed major concerns about surging teenage use of e-cigarettes, and the
June 17, 2019 by Chain Drug Review
CVS Health, Dr. Troyen Brennan, e-cigarettes
Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Given the significant increase in the number of teens using e-cigarettes, CVS Health Monday announced that it and its charitable foundations will award a total of more than $10 million in 2019 to support youth smoking and e-cigarette prevention strategies and education delivered in classrooms, by clinicians and in communities across the United States.
January 14, 2019 by Chain Drug Review
e-cigarettes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, sale of tobacco products
Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
NEW YORK – The minimum age to purchase tobacco and e-cigarette products in will be set at 21 and new regulations for the sale of e-cigarettes would be introduced if a provision in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal is approved. The proposal would also end the sale of tobacco and e-cigarette products in pharmacies in
November 15, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, CVS Be The First, CVS Health, CVS Health Foundation, Dr. Troyen Brennan, e-cigarettes, FDA
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Retail News
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health, the nation’s first and only national pharmacy chain to have eliminated the sale of tobacco products from its retail stores, today announced its support for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s plans to restrict access to flavored tobacco and e-cigarette products in the retail setting and impose stricter age-verification requirements for
November 9, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
e-cigarettes, Food and Drug Administration, Scott Gottlieb
Leading Headlines, Retail News
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Seeking to curb vaping by minors, the Food and Drug Administration is banning retail sales of most flavored e-cigarettes. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb early this month was on the verge of announcing the prohibition (which will exempt menthol and mint flavors), as well as imposing age-verification requirements for online e-cigarette sales.
September 12, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
Be The First, CVS Health, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, e-cigarettes, FDA
Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — As the nation’s first and only national pharmacy chain to have eliminated the sale of cigarettes and other harmful tobacco products from its retail stores and having never sold e-cigarettes and vaping devices CVS Health today applauded the enforcement actions taken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to curtail the
October 12, 2017 by CDR Blog and Chain Drug Review
Be The First, CATCH Global Foundation, CATCH My Breath, CVS Health, e-cigarettes, Eileen Howard Boone, youth e-cigarette preventio
CDR Blog
CVS Health continues to back up its mantra of getting people “on the path to better health” with action. Having dropped tobacco from its stores and refocused its front end on better-for-you products, CVS is taking aim at e-cigarettes. The company has made a three-year, $500,000 grant to bring the CATCH Global Foundation’s youth e-cigarette