Why do pharmacies sell cigarettes?

If pharmacies are supposed to be about keeping healthy and healing illness, then why do they sell cigarettes? Do they want people to get cancer and other diseases to increase drug sales?

Because even though pharmacies are about keeping healthy and healing illness, they are still a business and businesses need to make money. Tabacco products are big money and as long as people keep smoking, pharmacies will keep selling cigarettes so the pharmacies can stay in business.

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One reason - money, money, and money

The might dollar overrules common sense!

It's not like SavOn or their employees took the hippocratic oath. They're a business.

in ontario, pharmacies have not been allowed to sell cigarettes for almost 10 years.

I find that just as weird as seeing EMT's smoking. Funny huh

Simply for profit, just like why the pharmacist sold romeo the poison in R&J

yes, it is definately all about the money...if they can keep people on their drugs and cigarettes, they keep people sick and therefore keep people coming back to buy more drugs. By the way the prescriptions you're buying are making you sick...why do you think you have warnings all over them.

Pharmacies are a business .It is their right to sell whatever is LEGAL.
If you want to stop the sales of cigarettes then ask Congress to enact a law banning tobacco.
Be prepared to pay around 25% more in taxes to make up what the tobacco companies pay in taxes now.
That is an increase for EVERY MAN ,WOMAN and CHILD.

They also sell alcohol!

good question, and I know of TWO reasons, the main one, of course, for profit. But oddly enough, cigerettes can be used as a substitute for preperation H. I know I know, it is a very desperate alteration, but I don't think that that would change the fact that it is mainly sold for profit...

they want your money...

Are you serious?!!! They really sell cigarettes and alcohol in pharmacies over there?!!!
Wow!
Here in Australia there would be a HUGE uproar if they sold ciggies and plonk over the counter at the local chemist!

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Money is the driving force in this world, honey.

Smoking does not only cause cancer, smoking also brings on respiratory problems, stained teeth, early aging, asthma.....etc. These are common illness and personal products that can be easily obtain at our local pharmacy! Get it!? If there were no sick people, there wouldn't be Pharmacies.
Clinically speaking, nicotine is a form of stress depressant, and has been a profitable, quick selling, top shelf item for pharmacy owners for decades.

Scenario: A Customer comes in to buy cigarettes and conveniently grab a bottle of cough medicine, asthma pump, teeth whitener.....$$$$$$

I don't know where you live, but I have never seen a pharmacy sell cigarettes. They don't do that in Arizona.

My guess would have to be security, to keep theft down. That's why pharmacies usually keep stop smoking aids, diabetic meters, even razor blades locked up. That stuff is expensive!

Do you mean why do "drug stores" sell cigarettes? To my knowledge, pharmacies themselves do not and will not. Places like Walgreens and Eckerd might sell them, but the pharmacies within them do not.

well the reasion is .. :) he\she wan'ts to earn money .. lolzzz

I'm assuming you mean Eckard's, Walgreens, CVS, and the like? They sell Cigarettes for the same reason they sell candy, chips, sodas, and such. It's called profit. It's like a one stop thing. Sorta like wal-mart, only they don't eat up uber-amounts of your time.

Do you really need an answer to that question?