CIGARETTES & PHARMACIES DON’T MIX

It’s sheer hypocrisy that some national pharmacy chains still sell addictive and deadly tobacco.

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Remove Tobacco Products

FROM DRUG STORES

Our elected officials do have the legislative power to end the sale of all tobacco products in pharmacies. Over 50 communities in California have already done so.

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Every drugstore is a licensed health care facility.


Selling tobacco in a licensed health care facility sends mixed messages.

The US is virtually the only country in the world that sells tobacco in a pharmacy.

San Francisco was the first US city to end the sale of all tobacco products in pharmacies.

Tobacco is the only product that when used as directed, kills.

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CONSIDERATION

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click on “See FAQs” below.

PHARMACIES COME IN VARIOUS

SHAPES AND SIZES

The courts have ruled that elected officials can end the sale of tobacco in all pharmacies, as long as every pharmacy is treated equally under the ordinance.

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Independent
Pharmacies

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Drug Store
Chains

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Pharmacies located
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Pharmacies located
inside big box stores

DOZENS OF JURISDICTIONS IN CALIFORNIA HAVE ALREADY TAKEN ACTION to end the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies.

Click below to see the list of California jurisdictions that have enacted a tobacco-free pharmacy policy as part of a Tobacco Retail License (TRL)

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we’ve got answers

Will a local tobacco-free pharmacy policy actually do anything to help reduce smoking? Will this hurt small business? To find answers to questions like these, click on “See FAQs” below.

Two more resources that may be helpful are this educational toolkit and podcast. Download “A Guide to Tobacco-Free Pharmacies” by clicking on the yellow cover on the left. Listen to an interview with Project Director Bob Gordon below.

See a map showing California jurisdictions that have already ended the sale of tobacco in pharmacies