Each year the tobacco industry spends close to $8B on advertising and promotions at the point where tobacco products enter our communities. Many of these outlets are located in pharmacies where people trying to manage conditions worsened by tobacco use are seen each and every day. We would like to applaud CVS Caremark for taking a giant step forward, choosing

Kansas spends about 200 times as much to treat diseases related to smoking each year as it spends on preventing smoking and helping people quit, according to a report from the Kansas Health Foundation, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, and Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition. Read more about the REPORT. For more information, read