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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

This is possible because CVS has records of both in-store and mail-order prescriptions

A store in downtown Indianapolis also stocked free tobacco quit packs where cigarettes used to sit

Merlo: Some of it is really tied to education and awareness in terms of understanding the relative costs associated with each of those care settings

If sales of cigarettes at pharmacies continue rising at the current rate, by 2020 almost 15% of all U.S

minors smoke a cigarette for the first time, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics cited by CVS