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NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart said Wednesday that it will raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes at its U.S. stores to 21 amid growing pressure from regulators to cut tobacco sales and use among minors.

The world’s largest retailer also said it will also stop selling fruit and dessert flavored e-cigarettes, which critics say can hook teenagers on vaping.

The new rules will take effect in July at all its 5,300 U.S. stores, including its Sam’s Club warehouse locations. Previously, Walmart’s minimum purchase age was 18, aside from a number of states where the legal age is 21.

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration put Walmart and 14 other retailers on notice for selling tobacco products to kids. Another retailer on the list, drugstore operator Walgreens, said last month that it would increase its minimum age for tobacco sales to 21 in September.

In a letter to the FDA Wednesday, Walmart said it will conduct its own tests this year to make sure minors can’t buy tobacco products at its stores. The company said it will retrain workers that fail its tests.

“Even a single sale to a minor is one too many, and we take seriously our responsibilities in this regard,” said John Scudder, Walmart’s chief compliance and ethics officer, in a blog post Wednesday.

Going to tick off a good number of 18-21 year olds.

(05-09-2019 08:57 AM)king king Wrote:  Link here


NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart said Wednesday that it will raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes at its U.S. stores to 21 amid growing pressure from regulators to cut tobacco sales and use among minors.

The world’s largest retailer also said it will also stop selling fruit and dessert flavored e-cigarettes, which critics say can hook teenagers on vaping.

The new rules will take effect in July at all its 5,300 U.S. stores, including its Sam’s Club warehouse locations. Previously, Walmart’s minimum purchase age was 18, aside from a number of states where the legal age is 21.

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration put Walmart and 14 other retailers on notice for selling tobacco products to kids. Another retailer on the list, drugstore operator Walgreens, said last month that it would increase its minimum age for tobacco sales to 21 in September.

In a letter to the FDA Wednesday, Walmart said it will conduct its own tests this year to make sure minors can’t buy tobacco products at its stores. The company said it will retrain workers that fail its tests.

“Even a single sale to a minor is one too many, and we take seriously our responsibilities in this regard,” said John Scudder, Walmart’s chief compliance and ethics officer, in a blog post Wednesday.

Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 08:57 AM)king king Wrote:  Link here


NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart said Wednesday that it will raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes at its U.S. stores to 21 amid growing pressure from regulators to cut tobacco sales and use among minors.

The world’s largest retailer also said it will also stop selling fruit and dessert flavored e-cigarettes, which critics say can hook teenagers on vaping.

The new rules will take effect in July at all its 5,300 U.S. stores, including its Sam’s Club warehouse locations. Previously, Walmart’s minimum purchase age was 18, aside from a number of states where the legal age is 21.

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration put Walmart and 14 other retailers on notice for selling tobacco products to kids. Another retailer on the list, drugstore operator Walgreens, said last month that it would increase its minimum age for tobacco sales to 21 in September.

In a letter to the FDA Wednesday, Walmart said it will conduct its own tests this year to make sure minors can’t buy tobacco products at its stores. The company said it will retrain workers that fail its tests.

“Even a single sale to a minor is one too many, and we take seriously our responsibilities in this regard,” said John Scudder, Walmart’s chief compliance and ethics officer, in a blog post Wednesday.

Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

If it is ever legal on the Federal level I imagine they'll do just that.

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

This graphic is from a peer reviewed research paper in The Lancet, one of the world's premiere medical journals:

Private company making a decision, I don't see anything wrong with it. I doubt 18-21 smokers makes up a significant amount of their business.

(05-09-2019 10:01 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

This graphic is from a peer reviewed research paper in The Lancet, one of the world's premiere medical journals:

LSD less physical harm than tobacco or alcohol? I call BS on researchers doing their report while on drugs creating BS criteria.

You can take LSD once and it can stick with you the rest of your life.

(05-09-2019 10:01 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

This graphic is from a peer reviewed research paper in The Lancet, one of the world's premiere medical journals:

I'd argue that we have yet to see the full effects of it's dangers because it's just recently been legalized and seen more widespread use. Up until now it's been a small segment of society, who knows what the long term will bring.

I do know that the number of pot related ER trips has skyrocketed.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/25/health/ed...index.html

(05-09-2019 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 10:01 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

This graphic is from a peer reviewed research paper in The Lancet, one of the world's premiere medical journals:

LSD less physical harm than tobacco or alcohol? I call BS on researchers doing their report while on drugs creating BS criteria.

You can take LSD once and it can stick with you the rest of your life.

Have you ever done LSD?

(05-09-2019 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 10:01 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

This graphic is from a peer reviewed research paper in The Lancet, one of the world's premiere medical journals:

LSD less physical harm than tobacco or alcohol? I call BS on researchers doing their report while on drugs creating BS criteria.

You can take LSD once and it can stick with you the rest of your life.

(05-09-2019 10:57 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  I do know that the number of pot related ER trips has skyrocketed.

I don't know if it's cannabis related, but i do know that people are doing more "experimenting" what goes in with their pot during processing, which (I think)is more of the ER trips than the cannabis itself.

(05-09-2019 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 10:01 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

This graphic is from a peer reviewed research paper in The Lancet, one of the world's premiere medical journals:

LSD less physical harm than tobacco or alcohol? I call BS on researchers doing their report while on drugs creating BS criteria.

You can take LSD once and it can stick with you the rest of your life.

Guy from my home town had a "bad trip" when he was young. My Father was friends with his brother. Screwed him up BAD. He basically needed assisted living until the day he died.

UnAmerican

(05-09-2019 09:17 AM)bullet Wrote:  Going to tick off a good number of 18-21 year olds.

very very few of the 18-20 crowd smokes anymore...

(05-09-2019 12:11 PM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 10:01 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

This graphic is from a peer reviewed research paper in The Lancet, one of the world's premiere medical journals:

LSD less physical harm than tobacco or alcohol? I call BS on researchers doing their report while on drugs creating BS criteria.

You can take LSD once and it can stick with you the rest of your life.

Guy from my home town had a "bad trip" when he was young. My Father was friends with his brother. Screwed him up BAD. He basically needed assisted living until the day he died.

Bunch of idiots on here believing internet bs on how harmless drugs are. I have a relative who got slipped some lsd at a party and still had flashbacks yeArs later. Another who mixed ecstasy and alcohol and fried his brain. Still periodically hears voices. Another who got started, graduated to heroin and could never get off. Died of an overdose recently at 24

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 08:57 AM)king king Wrote:  Link here


NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart said Wednesday that it will raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes at its U.S. stores to 21 amid growing pressure from regulators to cut tobacco sales and use among minors.

The world’s largest retailer also said it will also stop selling fruit and dessert flavored e-cigarettes, which critics say can hook teenagers on vaping.

The new rules will take effect in July at all its 5,300 U.S. stores, including its Sam’s Club warehouse locations. Previously, Walmart’s minimum purchase age was 18, aside from a number of states where the legal age is 21.

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration put Walmart and 14 other retailers on notice for selling tobacco products to kids. Another retailer on the list, drugstore operator Walgreens, said last month that it would increase its minimum age for tobacco sales to 21 in September.

In a letter to the FDA Wednesday, Walmart said it will conduct its own tests this year to make sure minors can’t buy tobacco products at its stores. The company said it will retrain workers that fail its tests.

“Even a single sale to a minor is one too many, and we take seriously our responsibilities in this regard,” said John Scudder, Walmart’s chief compliance and ethics officer, in a blog post Wednesday.

Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

there's a Yuge difference between the two....one is more addictive than caffeine....the other is nothing more that a sedative w/o physically addictive properties....

what they both have in common are most folk are either too stupid or ignorant to understand the balance how one is manipulated in the MKT arena....

there's more bs out there now than the shrooms growing amongst the cow patties....

(05-09-2019 11:25 AM)king king Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 10:01 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

This graphic is from a peer reviewed research paper in The Lancet, one of the world's premiere medical journals:

LSD less physical harm than tobacco or alcohol? I call BS on researchers doing their report while on drugs creating BS criteria.

You can take LSD once and it can stick with you the rest of your life.

Have you ever done LSD?

have you ever dipped a 100 sheet in a vat....

have you ever done X before it became illegal....

have you ever done pen!s envy.....

you're talking to a guy that understands chemistry across the board...

most folk don't have the capacity to plan for the trip or understand the company it potentially creates....

however, some have the ability to just say, "fk you jobu" and remain out of the limelight....

I don't get it...this is like saying, you can't buy beer unless you are 25 at our establishment.

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 08:57 AM)king king Wrote:  Link here


NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart said Wednesday that it will raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes at its U.S. stores to 21 amid growing pressure from regulators to cut tobacco sales and use among minors.

The world’s largest retailer also said it will also stop selling fruit and dessert flavored e-cigarettes, which critics say can hook teenagers on vaping.

The new rules will take effect in July at all its 5,300 U.S. stores, including its Sam’s Club warehouse locations. Previously, Walmart’s minimum purchase age was 18, aside from a number of states where the legal age is 21.

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration put Walmart and 14 other retailers on notice for selling tobacco products to kids. Another retailer on the list, drugstore operator Walgreens, said last month that it would increase its minimum age for tobacco sales to 21 in September.

In a letter to the FDA Wednesday, Walmart said it will conduct its own tests this year to make sure minors can’t buy tobacco products at its stores. The company said it will retrain workers that fail its tests.

“Even a single sale to a minor is one too many, and we take seriously our responsibilities in this regard,” said John Scudder, Walmart’s chief compliance and ethics officer, in a blog post Wednesday.

Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

They're already on it, book it.

(05-09-2019 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 10:01 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 09:18 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  Amazes me that we can try and demonize tobacco at the same time we're "legalizing" pot.

Maybe Marlboro should just start selling packs of joints instead of cigs.

This graphic is from a peer reviewed research paper in The Lancet, one of the world's premiere medical journals:

LSD less physical harm than tobacco or alcohol? I call BS on researchers doing their report while on drugs creating BS criteria.

You can take LSD once and it can stick with you the rest of your life.

Yeah, maybe. Didn't seem to hurt me...