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Cigarettes sold in pharmacy: Your thoughts please

Ghost Estate · 2011-02-12 23:19:58

The rationale here is that people who smoke will buy them anyway, the pharmacy might as well sell them. Should they start selling fags in pharmacies here?

12-02-2011 11:19pm

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Ghost Estate

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The rationale here is that people who smoke will buy them anyway, the pharmacy might as well sell them.

Should they start selling fags in pharmacies here?

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#2 13-02-2011 2:08am

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Well you could use that rationale for any commodity, e.g. "should we sell potatoes in pharmacies? Sure people who eat them will buy them anyway". You wouldn't sell a potato in a pharmacy because a pharmacy is a specialist healthcare shop (also beauty and skincare and other bits and bobs). Then there's the obvious point of cigarettes being completely at odds with the raison d'etre of a pharmacy- that is to sell products that increase health and wellbeing, which cigarettes obviously do not.

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#3 13-02-2011 2:53am

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If it gets to the stage where you can only get them with a prescription.

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