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Originally Posted by charlene
Drug stores don't sell tobacco products here in Ontario and stores that do have to have them behind a wall of lift up doors for each shelf so they aren't visible to the customers. there are small labels on the doors designating the brand of cigarette etc...Proof of age is required for everyone and the clerk must ask regardless of it being obvious that the person is over 18..
But I do have to walk to the back to get a prescription!
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I'm a former smoker ("clean" for almost 20 years ago), so I'm not 100 percent sure, but I don't think we here in California sell tobacco products at least at the drug store I frequent...HOWEVER, in the grocery stores, the ciggies are locked up and you have to show proof of age. Great new ad on tv (responding to the movies' new onslaught of smoking on the big screen) shows a very thin sick old man hooked up to an oxygen machine and in a wheelchair. All that's said is, "If you thinking smoking is sexy, take a look at me..." I have a next-door neighbor dying a slow death (COPD, smoked 1-1/2 packs of unfiltered Camels a day until a couple of months ago) and she's still in denial - SORRY! Didn't mean for this to be a sermon! I sure hated being preached to when I was a smoker!
And yes, I have to walk a fer piece to get my drugs, too - as a person who lives alone, that's NOT fun when you're sick and need those antibiotics!
Be sure to keep slugging down those diet Cokes, everybody - we can't afford those extra calories!
SherylKat