CV Health quit tobacco and helped smokers quit too

CVS Health quit tobacco and we helped smokers quit, too CVS Health is committed to helping people on their path to better health. Selling tobacco conflicted with our purpose, so in 2014, we removed tobacco products from CVS/pharmacy® retail locations nationwide. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the US. 480,000 deaths per year Smoking causes: We believed that restricting access to tobacco would have a positive impact on public health. And it did. To measure that impact, we evaluated: M Sales of cigarette packs V Unit sales of nicotine patch packages In states where CVS/pharmacy has greater than 15% market share: Unit sales of nicotine patch packages Cigarette pack sales 1% O]1 4% decrease increase in the month following the ban over the 8 months following the ban That's 5 fewer packs per smoker and 95M fewer packs That's an additional 5 packages sold for every 1K smokers overall* We are committed to helping smokers quit. We know that nearly 70% of smokers have the desire to quit and we want them to be successful. Because not every smoker will succeed with the same approach, we offer a variety of services and resources: Smoking cessation education through the MinuteClinic Start to Stop® program, which has nearly doubled the number of monthly visits CvS pharmacists, who have counseled more than 260K patients and filled nearly 600K Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) prescriptions OTC nicotine replacement products Dedicated quitline and Online Cessation Hub on CVS.com Discover more: www.cyshealth.com VCVSHealth "In states where CVS/pharmacy has greater than 15% market share. Sources: 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Quick stats: number of deaths from 10 leading causes - National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2010. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2013;62:8. 2. Impact of the CVS tobacco ban on smoking cessation: when CVS Health quit tobacco, many smokers quit too. Polinski JM, Howell B, Brennan TA, Shrank WH. 3. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. www.cdc.gowtobacco/data_statistics/sgr/50th-anniversaryrindex.htm The Health Consequences of Smoking-50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014. 4. CVS Health internal data, Sept. 2014 - Sept. 2015. © 2015 CVS Health. All rights reserved. 106-35469b 082815