Each cigarette contains 28 mg of tar and 1.9 mg of nicotine
While the pharmacy giant does not plan to stop selling cigarettes entirely, Walgreens Boots CEO Stefano Pessina told The Wall Street Journal that employees will now encourage cigarette purchasers toward cessation products
He told the court: We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing theyre really interested in is subverting public health. Yet last weeks judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal
Depending on the amount of smoke, it should be changed every 6 to 12 months