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CVS Still Stands Alone In No-Smoke Zone
- Bloomberg, Friday, November 7, 2014 8 AM
CVS Health Corp., which stopped selling tobacco two months ago, isn't sharing its rarefied air with Walgreen Co. and Rite Aid Corp. Those stores, whose cigarette displays are right at the exit, are taking the veterinarian-as-taxidermist approach: while they get good money off of cigarette sales, they are also in the business of helping smokers try to stop. CVS third-quarter revenue grew 9.7% to $35 billion.
