Read the article at the following link:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/05/news/companies/cvs-walgreens-cigarettes/
Answer the following questions:
1. Explain whether CVS's decision to stop selling cigarettes is reasoned. Use proof from the article to support your answer.
2. Explain whether CVS's decision to stop selling cigarettes is impartial. Use proof from the article to support your answer.
3. Explain whether CVS's decision to stop selling cigarettes is about right or wrong. Use proof from the article to support your answer.
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ReplyDeleteThe decision to stop selling cigarettes is significantly impartial because of how much money is made to purchase cigarettes but also how it breaks addictions to chain smokers. If anything, tobacco-free cigarettes would be more appropriate to keep in stock.
ReplyDeleteCVS decision is reasoned because they're now realizing that cigarettes are bad for human life and do not wish to be associated with the cause of death for millions of Americans and lung cancer.
ReplyDeleteCVS is using ethical decision making and just trying to make their company known in the right light. As millions of Americans are realizing that cigarettes are extremely fatal they are deciding to appeal with the majority of the nation. I'm sure many employees and employers have someone close to them that has been affected by cigarettes.
1. Nothing requires them to sell cigarettes. It's up to the company what they sell.
ReplyDelete2. They favor other's health over their own business, proving they're not impartial, but don't favor themselves.
3. They want themselves to seem as if they're doing the "right" so they decided to quit now rather than later, but the amount of smokers is on the decline and the business would lose money from the overproduction later on.
The decision made by CVS is not reasoned because they do not have a say in what their customers do. This will,however, hurt the sales of the store. This decision is about right. They want their customers to make the right decisions about their health. From a finical aspect it is wrong because they were making about 2 billion dollars on cigarette sales.
ReplyDeleteThey did the right thing, because they sell medication that fights addiction and diseases or things that are caused by cigarettes so why fight and cause it.
ReplyDelete1.) The decision is reasoned because they are helping the peoples health and wellness because smoking causes lung cancer and many other diseases .
ReplyDelete1. Yes, I think their decision is reasoned because they should be promoting healthy lifestyles since they are pharmacies. "We think that the CVS announcement sends a powerful message that if you're in the business of health care you shouldn't be in the business of selling tobacco products," said Vince Willmore, spokesman for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
ReplyDelete2. I believe that they are being impartial because they will be losing money for dropping the products and they will be helping the well-being of others. The company said the move makes sense. CVS (CVS, Fortune 500) estimates it will lose about $2 billion in annual revenues.
3. I think that it is about right or wrong because the store is supposed to promote good health and not influence the selling of tabacco products.
1. CVS's decision is reasoned for a few reasons. The first is that selling cigarettes would be hypocritical of them, considering they are trying to turn their store into a "wellness center". If they advocate good heath practices, then they should not be selling cigarettes. Secondly, the decision doesn't cost them much profits, and they will most likely make it up in income from their new health clinics.
ReplyDelete2. Their decision is definitely impartial. Instead of choosing to favor themselves by continuing to make money off the cigarette sales, they looked at the benefit the whole community would receive and made their decision based off of that.
3. This is a matter of "right or wrong" for CVS. This has nothing to do with profits or other business matters, only about trying to improve the community and doing the right thing by their customers.
2.) I believe that they are being impartial because they will be loosing money from stopping to sell cigarettes.
ReplyDelete3.) They are only trying to inprove each others health.
1.) I think that they did the right decision because for one cigarettes can damage people in a great way and also shortens your life span. Plus they are suppose to be a store that helps people not hurt them by selling cigarettes. They did the right thing to stop selling them and to make up for that they put in some new health clinics that will surely boost up sales again and will be able to function fine with out that product.
ReplyDelete2.) There decision is impartial because instead of worrying about what they would get out of it they instead thought about the well being of others and then made there final decision.
3.) i don't think it was a matter of right or wrong but instead just about the well being of others and how cigarettes greatly impact people in a negative way.
The decision to stop selling cigarettes is significantly impartial because of how much money is made to purchase cigarettes but also how it breaks addictions to chain smokers If anything tobacco free cigarettes would be more appropriate to keep in stock
ReplyDelete1.) CVS decision to stop selling cigarettes was not reasoned because according to the article , they will be loosing money , and they never said that the cigarettes were causing a problem.
ReplyDelete2.) No the decision was not partial, because, now that they are no longer selling
cigarettes, who ever wanted to buy them from CVS ca n no longer do so. Also CVS rivals such as Walgreen and rite aids may be affected by thier decision because now people may expect them to do the same.
3.) I honestly cannot say weather this was a decision of right or wrong according to this article, some may say they did the right thing but others may say it was a dumb decision. I just dont know