Smoking has been an issue toward society for many years and many wonder if it should be banned or not. Nowadays, walking on the streets a person will look to his/her right and see someone smoking; and then look to the left and witness the same. There are serious consequences to the use of tobacco and pharmacies are supposed to sell drugs for people to get better, but they’re selling cigarettes. Smoking leads to 440,000 deaths a year in the United States (CDC 2014). There are certain pros and cons to the selling of tobacco in pharmacies. The sale in pharmacies assist in a financial burden on people, it‘s harmful to the environment and it leads to life threatening diseases. Although there are those corrupt reasons, there are also decent reasons
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It makes people addicted to it and has to constantly buy tobacco from an accessible pharmacy, puts them in financial crisis. If cigarettes are becoming more available, smokers will tend to buy it when they see it because that is their drug. Cigarettes are expensive and a person can save a lot of money by stopping to buy them. “One packet of 25 cigarettes costs around $21 and the price keeps rising” (Better Health Channel, 2014). The amount of money a person can save by quitting smoking for a week is absurd. That would be $21 multiplied by 7 days in a week, which is equal to $147.00. A person can pay his/her cable bill with that amount of money or even the electric bill and not forgetting that bill is for an entire month, not a week. “Smokers are considered higher risk candidates for these types of insurance because of the increased risks of serious chronic illnesses, and the increased medical costs throughout our lifespan” (American Cancer Association, 2014). That means that not only is the cigarette expensive, but the insurance that a smoker has. The amount of money combined with buying cigarettes and paying for health insurance, knowing a smoker will fall ill is insane. Imagine paying for a visit at the hospital where a person could die at any point in his/her life. The financial burden that is left on many smokers is going to keep on happening if someone doesn’t …show more content…
A smoker does not realize the harm he/she exposes people to when he/she is smoking. “Secondhand smoke contributes to 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmokers and as many as 40,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease each year (Mills, 2014).” By promoting these sales in drugstores, it is not helping the environment or the people in it. It is making life disastrous and reducing the life span of a person. The sales are for an envious motive, which is gaining money. “CVS Pharmacy has decided selling tobacco products contradicts its foundational healthcare mission and will no longer sell tobacco products after October 1, 2014” (Schoonover-Shoffner, 2014). If a multimillion-dollar corporation can stop the distribution of cigarettes in order to ensure that their main focus is on bettering the health of people and not endangering it, why are other pharmacies hesitant? Instead of pharmacies adding people to statistics of people who die smoking, all pharmacies should work toward one goal and that is to help ensure the health of all people is good. They should not be selling cigarettes, which will make people’s lives worse. However, more research has to be conducted in the benefits of pharmacies selling tobacco due to the minimal research, which was
It makes people addicted to it and has to constantly buy tobacco from an accessible pharmacy, puts them in financial crisis. If cigarettes are becoming more available, smokers will tend to buy it when they see it because that is their drug. Cigarettes are expensive and a person can save a lot of money by stopping to buy them. “One packet of 25 cigarettes costs around $21 and the price keeps rising” (Better Health Channel, 2014). The amount of money a person can save by quitting smoking for a week is absurd. That would be $21 multiplied by 7 days in a week, which is equal to $147.00. A person can pay his/her cable bill with that amount of money or even the electric bill and not forgetting that bill is for an entire month, not a week. “Smokers are considered higher risk candidates for these types of insurance because of the increased risks of serious chronic illnesses, and the increased medical costs throughout our lifespan” (American Cancer Association, 2014). That means that not only is the cigarette expensive, but the insurance that a smoker has. The amount of money combined with buying cigarettes and paying for health insurance, knowing a smoker will fall ill is insane. Imagine paying for a visit at the hospital where a person could die at any point in his/her life. The financial burden that is left on many smokers is going to keep on happening if someone doesn’t …show more content…
A smoker does not realize the harm he/she exposes people to when he/she is smoking. “Secondhand smoke contributes to 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmokers and as many as 40,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease each year (Mills, 2014).” By promoting these sales in drugstores, it is not helping the environment or the people in it. It is making life disastrous and reducing the life span of a person. The sales are for an envious motive, which is gaining money. “CVS Pharmacy has decided selling tobacco products contradicts its foundational healthcare mission and will no longer sell tobacco products after October 1, 2014” (Schoonover-Shoffner, 2014). If a multimillion-dollar corporation can stop the distribution of cigarettes in order to ensure that their main focus is on bettering the health of people and not endangering it, why are other pharmacies hesitant? Instead of pharmacies adding people to statistics of people who die smoking, all pharmacies should work toward one goal and that is to help ensure the health of all people is good. They should not be selling cigarettes, which will make people’s lives worse. However, more research has to be conducted in the benefits of pharmacies selling tobacco due to the minimal research, which was