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Walmart will discontinue sales of e-cigarettes in the wake of deaths
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:07 pm
CNBC
Traditional cigarettes and alcohol are still good to go.
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Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, will stop selling e-cigarettes amid “regulatory complexity” and “uncertainty” surrounding the industry, the company said in an internal memo Friday.
“Given the growing federal, state and local regulatory complexity and uncertainty regarding e-cigarettes, we plan to discontinue the sale of electronic nicotine delivery products at all Walmart and Sam’s Club U.S. locations,” the company said. “We will complete our exit after selling through current inventory.”
E-cigarettes are billed as a less harmful way for people to get their nicotine fix than traditional cigarettes. Yet a teen vaping “epidemic” and an outbreak of a deadly vaping-related illness has thrown the industry into turmoil.
Health officials are investigating 530 cases of a mysterious lung disease that has killed eight people. Meantime, the Trump administration is readying a federal ban on flavored e-cigarettes, while cities and states are pursuing similar measures.
Walmart raised the tobacco buying age to 21 earlier this year in response to what regulators are calling an “epidemic” of teen vaping. Preliminary federal survey data shows more than one-quarter of high school students say they use e-cigarettes. Lawmakers are blaming the surge in youth use of e-cigarettes on Juul, the market leader.
Traditional cigarettes and alcohol are still good to go.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:08 pm to slackster
I'm okay with this more than trump trying to outright ban them.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:09 pm to slackster
But will they keep selling high cholesterol and sugar foods?
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:17 pm to TH03
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I'm okay with this more than trump trying to outright ban them.
This.
You can't regulate personal responsibility.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:18 pm to slackster
This stuff really goes to show how dumb the general public can be
It’s a total non issue
It’s a total non issue
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:19 pm to slackster
What about the millions killed by regular cigarettes?
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:19 pm to slackster
I know several people that were killed on bikes and zero people who were killed by vaping.
Your move Walmart.
Your move Walmart.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:28 pm to OysterPoBoy
We deeply care about the lives of our customers so once we completely sell all of our current stock of e-cigarettes and guns, we will discontinue selling them.
To those that die from our current stock, sorry.
To those that die from our current stock, sorry.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:28 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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This stuff really goes to show how dumb the general public can be
Just yesterday I had not 1, but 2 doctors tell me to quit vaping because of those reports. I laughed and said "are you advocating for me to go back to smokeless or cigarettes? Because that is what I am hearing."
They didn't have a solid answer other than "you shouldn't be using any of it."
She wasn't happy when I said "that must be why they pay you the big bucks" Then the subject was changed.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:30 pm to BHM
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We deeply care about the lives of our customers so once we completely sell all of our current stock of e-cigarettes and guns, we will discontinue selling them. To those that die from our current stock, sorry.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:31 pm to ShoeBang
quote:this is a solid answer you moron.
They didn't have a solid answer other than "you shouldn't be using any of it."
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She wasn't happy when I said "that must be why they pay you the big bucks
Good God...
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:40 pm to slackster
Honestly, it is a good business decision. If the ban comes they won't have tons of dead stock sitting that they have to throw away.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:42 pm to Displaced
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this is a solid answer you moron
No shite - part of the joke - the other part is that for years, we have heard nothing about vaping then all of a sudden it is a public health crisis? frick off. Logic and deductive reasoning tells you that it isn't a health crisis.
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Good God
Let me know when you find a sense of humor, maybe we could be friends without you pissing yourself over someone not respecting their doctor when said doctor dispenses the medical equivalent of 1+1=2 . Doctors can be misinformed ignoramuses too.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:44 pm to slackster
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wake of deaths
How you gonna wake up dead?
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:46 pm to ShoeBang
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maybe we could be friends
You guys are gonna laugh about this one day while swapping wives.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 1:59 pm to slackster
The whole thing is such bullshite. 1300 people die every day from cigarettes. Big Tobacco is not dead folks. This is their power at work.
Posted on 9/20/19 at 2:05 pm to LSUGolfman
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Big Tobacco is not dead folks. This is their power at work.
I doubt it is Altria...
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