Putnam Votes On Pharmacy Tobacco Ban This Week
CARMEL, N.Y. – The Putnam County Legislature will vote this week on whether to ban the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies.
The ban was proposed in early July by county Health Commissioner Alan Beals. He said similar bans are becoming more and more common, and it would be an important part of the department’s efforts to combat the county’s high rate of lung cancer.
“Pharmacies traditionally have been trusted points of care and wellness,” he said at the time. “When used as directed, cigarettes kill half of their users. It seems to me it’s important to ban the sale of those products from any retail establishment that has a pharmacy.”
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