In an essay published in February in the Journal of the American Medical Association with Steven Schroeder, director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, CVS' Chief Medical Officer Troyen Brennan said reducing cigarette availability is another step toward taking tobacco use out of the mainstream and making it less socially acceptable
Its anchored by pharmacy services and MinuteClinic related services and some other health services, but it continues to offer elements of convenience that focus on health and wellness as well as personal care and beauty and other elements of convenience as people think about their shopping trip
health care system that interacts ever more closely with patients, giving flu shots, reminding them when they are not filling prescriptions, and, through its 800 Minute Clinic in-store nurse practitioner stations, prescribing medicines
"We are at a critical moment in our nation's efforts to end the epidemic of tobacco use that continues to kill more people than any other preventable cause of death, and threatens the health and well-being of our next generation," CVS Health chief medical officer Troyen Brennan said in a statement
Through the company's more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores
(The company changed its name from CVS Caremark to CVS Health at about the time the last of cigarettes disappeared from store shelves in September of that year.) The company said on Thursday it would provide funding over five years to leading anti-tobacco and youth-oriented programs with a view to further reducing tobacco use among young people, under the name Be the First, a reference to the goal of making todays youth the first tobacco-free generation
