Starting Tuesday, 1 January 2019, pharmacies in new York are prohibited from selling cigarettes and other tobacco products. This prohibition also applies to any outlets that have pharmacies, such as supermarkets and large stores.
The city health Department reported that the changes affected approximately 500 pharmacies, which until 2019, the carried out the sale of tobacco products. These rules followed the ban on the sale in pharmacies of electronic cigarettes, which came into force at the end of August last year.
Innovation is not encouraged by the owners of pharmacies and pharmacy kiosks. According to them, the government should not ban one retail outlets to sell tobacco products that can be purchased freely in another place. In response, the Deputy Commissioner of health Sonia Angell noted that pharmacies the main thing – health care.
