On the corner of Doing the Right Thing and Full of It.

CVS has decided to stop selling cigarettes as of later this year.  You can't tell exactly because they're cagey about the timing but it looks like cigarettes provide somewhere around 4 percent of their earnings.  I imagine that number has been declining and I also imagine that CVS' management foresaw a day when total cigarette earnings will approach zero and they decided to get ahead of that day as they reposition themselves as a health care company and try to increase their share of all those sweet, sweet Obamacare revenues.

So good for them.  But...

Everyone already knows that cigarettes are bad for you.  If CVS really wants to be a healthcare company they should stop trying to lead from behind and discontinue products which many of their customers think are good for them but in fact do nothing or worse.  I speak of homeopathic products. 

Yes, CVS provides a variety of homeopathic products, basically selling water for thousands of dollars per gallon.  Here's a product that's a homeopathic tablet.  They make you add your own water!  Sure, they dress it up by saying they intend for customers to use them as a supplement to instead of a replacement of real medicine.  But it's still crap, it is still a drain on customers' health care dollars and CVS should still grow a pair and stop selling the stuff.