** Major Grocery Chain Pulls All Tobacco Products ! **
Reality_CheckŠ
UPDATED: 4:16 pm EST January 4, 2008
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. -- The Wegman's supermarket chain will stop selling
cigarettes and other tobacco produces on Feb. 10.
The company said health concerns outweigh any profits the company gets from
tobacco products.
Top executives Danny Wegman and his daughter Colleen announced the decision
in a letter to employees, saying that while they respect an individual's
right to smoke, few would introduce smoking these days to their children.
Wegman's has stores in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Downingtown,
Chester County and Hunt Valley, Md.
Pa. No-Smoking Bill
A bill introduced last year that would ban smoking in most public places in
Pennsylvania is making some progress. Both the state House and the Senate
passed different versions of the bill. It's now in conference committee,
which is a group made up of three representatives from the House and three
from the Senate.
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They are trying to find a compromise that could be sent to legislators for a
final vote. The main issue is deciding where people would be allowed to
smoke.
The committee has several meetings planned over the next few months.
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Shawn Hirn
"Reality_CheckŠ" <Rea...@Check.it> wrote:
Wonderful news on both counts!
Mike
"Shawn Hirn" <sr...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:srhi-2666FE.0...@newsgroups.comcast.net...
> In article <477f401b$0$26009$8826...@free.teranews.com>,
> "Reality_CheckŠ" <Rea...@Check.it> wrote:
>
> > Grocery Store Chain Pulls All Tobacco Products
> >
> >
> > UPDATED: 4:16 pm EST January 4, 2008
> >
> > MECHANICSBURG, Pa. -- The Wegman's supermarket chain will stop selling
> > cigarettes and other tobacco produces on Feb. 10.
> >
> > The company said health concerns outweigh any profits the company gets
from
> > tobacco products.
> >
> > Top executives Danny Wegman and his daughter Colleen announced the
decision
> > in a letter to employees, saying that while they respect an individual's
> > right to smoke, few would introduce smoking these days to their
children.
Knowing what we know for sure today, we should also not be introducing
children to these other items in supermarkets:
Beef- burgers,ribs,etc
Pop/soda
many (sugar laden) cereals
Liquor
candy
cookies/cakes/etc
So, it appears the Wegman's are just anti tobacco, and their removal of the
LEGAL products has absolutely zero to do with caring for the children. If
they rid their markets of those above mentioned products and others not
listed, then the hypocrisy is untrue. As it stands, they are being
hypocritical.
Robert Broughton
>
> Knowing what we know for sure today, we should also not be introducing
> children to these other items in supermarkets:
> Beef- burgers,ribs,etc
> Pop/soda
> many (sugar laden) cereals
> Liquor
> candy
> cookies/cakes/etc
>
> So, it appears the Wegman's are just anti tobacco,
Actually, it appears to me that you are anti-beef, anti-pop,
anti-sugar-laden cereal, anti-liquor, anti-candy, and anti-cookies. That
makes you more of an "anti" than I am.
As for Wegman's, it's highly likely that they are also anti-shoplifting,
anti-terrorist, and anti-all sorts of things besides tobacco.
> and their removal of
> the LEGAL products
I'm sure that there's all sorts of other legal products that they don't
sell. Gasoline, for example.
> has absolutely zero to do with caring for the children.
You've already convinced me that you're making it up as you go along.
>>
>> Wonderful news on both counts!
--
Bob Broughton
http://broughton.ca/
Vancouver, BC, Canada
"There is no rational, moral or economic argument for the continuation
of the manufacture, sale or use of smoking tobacco."
- Robert Starkey, http://smokefreerevolution.org/, 03/18/2007
Shawn Hirn
"Mike" <cigarm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
The above mentioned products are all fine for those who maintain a
balanced diet. Smoking is not.
Marc Schneiderman
wrote:
> Smoking is not.
So incredibly stupid.
CigarBaron
Shawn Hirn
Marc Schneiderman <garb...@telerama.com> wrote:
What's stupid is to couch smoking as anything but unhealthy and
disgusting. Seeing someone smoke in public is more disgusting to me than
seeing someone pick their nose and eat their buggers in my presence. You
truly have no clue about how smelly and disgusting your smoking habit is.
Robert Broughton
> In article <ds0co3h8fbnpudnk0...@4ax.com>,
> Marc Schneiderman <garb...@telerama.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:41:23 -0500, Shawn Hirn <sr...@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Smoking is not.
>>
>>
>> So incredibly stupid.
>>
>> CigarBaron
>
> What's stupid is to couch smoking as anything but unhealthy and
> disgusting.
Actually, I would characterize it as dishonest. It's stupid to believe that
smoking is anything other than unhealthy and disgusting.