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I work in marketing for a large gas station/ convenience store chain, and all our stores have large cigarette and snuff displays behind the counters, they put up all kind of LED lights and signs to get peoples attention, but that is starting to backfire. We have been getting a lot of complaint calls about cigarettes being out in the open and marketed to people in this way recently, and it got me thinking about this in general.
One lady lodged a complaint earlier in the week at one of my stores, she complained that her kids should not be exposed to this kind of marketing when coming in the store with her, she said at the very least, the wall of cigarettes should be covered or hidden from public view, It caught many of us by surprise and has us thinking, her complaint made up all the way up to the director of operations, so it will be interesting to see what happens as a result, Very few customer complaints make it that high up!
CVS did away with all cigarette sales and I believe walgreens is considering it, I do not blame them, we sell a lot of cigarettes every day, but the contract we have with the tobacco companies, we really do not make much on them at all, the tobacco companies have us over a barrel in many regards. But in reality, should a product that was proven to be so deadly decades ago, still be available in so many places and marketed in the manner they are? I could understand this if the health concerns were still being debated or fairly recent, but its 2017, everyone has known how deadly tobacco is for quite a long time now!
Im just curious what everyone thinks about this, Personally I think its strange that in 2017, we STILL have huge elaborate cigarette displays in virtually every store you shop at. If they are so dangerous to our health, shy hasnt the FDA or DEA stepped in, like they did with prescription drugs, when they were discovered to be dangerous, new regulations were enacted and put in place extremely quickly. The same thing was done more recently with Ephedrine, this used to be sold at every gas station too, until it was found to be dangerous and again, they enacted new regulations very quickly to deal with it and now they are gone, cannot display or sell this anymore.
I do not see what the difference is, some people will say its the big tobacco companies and money, but that cant be it, the prescription drugs had huge companies concerned with profits behind them too, yet they were forced to accept new laws that killed their cash cows, due to them being so dangerous and deadly, how have tobacco companies survived and even thrived in a world like this?
Last edited by rstevens62; 09-15-2017 at 06:45 AM..
I'm curious where you live. I live in the heart of tobacco country (NC) and we don't have huge elaborate cigarette displays. The cigarettes are usually on the wall behind the counter, but there are no LED lights and big signs.
Be sure and take down all of the signage for snacks and remove those items from the shelves, and alcohol, candy, ice cream, pop, chocolate milk, juice, any procesed food items you have, coffee, donuts, frozen foods, and everything else
except *Natural Spring Water*.
Also, take out the lottery machines, any vending machings and live bait.
There's an old sticker on our line at work about flying 7000 miles to smoke a camel. Has a picture of a military jet and everything. Have to give them credit.... They knew how to manipulate human psychology, making it seem like smoking is patriotic and the like.
NYC has just voted to entirely ban pharmacies from selling cigarettes. Seems sorta like a duh what took so long situation. Talk about sending mixed signals to kids who went there. Here's a pack of newports and here's some cotton pads to soak up the blood you'll cough out from the liver, stomach, lung or esophagus cancer they'll give you.
NYC has just voted to entirely ban pharmacies from selling cigarettes. Seems sorta like a duh what took so long situation. Talk about sending mixed signals to kids who went there. Here's a pack of newports and here's some cotton pads to soak up the blood you'll cough out from the liver, stomach, lung or esophagus cancer they'll give you.
This type of over-dramatization is unnecessary. Kids don't get cancer from smoking. Kids can't even buy it.
I work in marketing for a large gas station/ convenience store chain,
Your industry sells almost nothing but poison. Gasoline fouls the air and runs cars that kill people, the cigarettes kill people, the beer kills people, and the candy bars and chips and donuts and so on makes you unhealthy and fat and then you die. If all you sold was toothpaste, you would make less money than a lemonade stand.
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Im just curious what everyone thinks about this, Personally I think its strange that in 2017, we STILL have huge elaborate cigarette displays in virtually every store you shop at. If they are so dangerous to our health, shy hasnt the FDA or DEA stepped in, like they did with prescription drugs, when they were discovered to be dangerous, new regulations were enacted and put in place extremely quickly. The same thing was done more recently with Ephedrine, this used to be sold at every gas station too, until it was found to be dangerous and again, they enacted new regulations very quickly to deal with it and now they are gone, cannot display or sell this anymore.
You said that it's 2017 so everyone knows smoking is bad for you. Correct. Then why all the handwringing from helicopter parents and their enablers? Can't these people just tell their kids themselves that smoking is bad for you? (in the unlikely event the kids don't already know)
Why must society cover up everything that's "bad" for you? Are we a nation of overgrown babies and imbeciles with no common sense?
Be sure and take down all of the signage for snacks and remove those items from the shelves, and alcohol, candy, ice cream, pop, chocolate milk, juice, any procesed food items you have, coffee, donuts, frozen foods, and everything else
except *Natural Spring Water*.
Also, take out the lottery machines, any vending machings and live bait.
Yeah... everything could be a health hazard. Including prescription medications...
Why we want to shield kids from exposure to harmful elements instead to educate them why some stuff is unhealthy and should be avoided? Those poor babies seeing cigarrets... They don't care. They don't know what are those little packs for. When they get older, they will be just way too curious about all the "hidden" and unspoken stuff, and anxious to get their hands on it. Like sex, drugs and alcohol.
Educate, and not hide or control...
That method works very well in other countries.
this type of over-dramatization is unnecessary. Kids don't get cancer from smoking. Kids can't even buy it.
+1.
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