cvs health stops selling tobacco Vows to Quit Products NEW: Tobacco Free RI Applauds

health care system that interacts ever more closely with patients, giving flu shots, reminding them when they are not filling prescriptions, and, through its 800 Minute Clinic in-store nurse practitioner stations, prescribing medicines

Over the past half-century, theyve morphed into convenience shops selling household products, snack food, cigarettes, beer and other items besides prescription drugs, vitamins and headache cures

For me and my colleagues who are working to reduce the ravages of tobacco use, that time cannot come soon enough.

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Q: Can you envision using your ownership of Aetna in the future to begin to nudge people to get health care services at a MinuteClinic or HealthHUB

This is possible because CVS has records of both in-store and mail-order prescriptions