walgreens on tobacco road Preps for Chain-Wide 21 Policy Walgreens to hike minimum age

Walgreens, Rite Aid raise minimum age to buy tobacco to 21 Walgreens has risen the minimum age to buy tobacco to 21 years old after it received criticism from the FDA earlier this year for selling tobacco products to minors

That sort of gives another meaning to being at the corner of happy and healthy, as the Walgreens ad slogan goes

Meanwhile, longtime critics of Walgreens tobacco stance say the risk of such sales continue to outweigh any benefits

Since CVS began rivaling Walgreens in terms of store count in the 2000s, the two have become synonymous with the drug-store format, typically running competing locations mere blocks from each other in most metropolitan markets