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FDA Votes In Favor Of Removing Side-Effect Warning On Pfizer's Chantix
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 8:57am | 444Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)'s Chantix is a prescription medication that helps adults 18 years and older quit smoking. The drug has been linked with reports of mental health problems, risk of suicide, depression and death in users, which prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue...
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Compounding, Cigarettes And Savings: How Quitting Smoking Can Save Your Retirement's Life
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 8:57am | 555Smokers, pay attention: Your habit is not only dangerous to your health; it could put a damper on your retirement plans. Fool.com's Selena Maranjian explored the relationship between smoking and retirement, and it is frightening. Consider that the average retail price of a pack of cigarettes was...
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CVS Shrugs Off $2 Billion In Cigarette Sale Losses
Monday, August 11, 2014 - 8:25am | 481In February of this year, CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS) made headlines –- and acclaim from anti-smoking activists –- when it announced the company would phase out the sale of cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco in more than 7,600 drugstores by October 2014. Investors worried the...
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Which Retailer Will Be Next To Discontinue Tobacco Sales?
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 6:20pm | 618So, who's next? Now that CVS (NYSE: CVS), the nation's second-largest drugstore chain, has announced it will phase out the sale of tobacco products at its stores by October of this year, consumers and investors are watching to see which retail chain will be next to fall in line and ban cigars,...