Tobacco-Free Pharmacies:
Prescription for Change

What's happening in New York

Statewide campaign to end sale of tobacco in pharmacies
This full-page ad ran in newspapers throughout NY state thanking pharmacies that have made the decision to stop selling tobacco products with the hope that others will follow their example.

• What people in the Capital Region are saying. . .
  
  
• A bill (A5890/S1234) has been introduced by Assembly Member Hoyt and Senator Thompson that bans tobacco sales by pharmacies and stores containing a pharmacy department.
  
  

Take Action

• American Cancer's Action Center
  
• National Petition Against Tobacco Sales in Pharmacies

Why pharmacists themselves want to
end tobacco sales in pharmacies

• See what we can learn from the first two cities to ban sale of tobacco in pharmacies—San Francisco and Boston—and learn why cigarettes and pharmacies don't mix at Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
  
  
• There's more to the relationship between tobacco and pharmacies than you might think. Learn more at PR Watch.org
  
  
• The American Pharmacists Association recommends that tobacco products not be sold in pharmacies.
  
  
• The National Community Pharmacists Association House of Delegates has approved a resolution asking its pharmacist members to consider refraining from selling tobacco products in their pharmacies.
  
  
• What Daniel A. Hussar, PhD, Remington Professor of Pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, has to say.