Walgreens keeps on selling cigarettes despite criticism

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. will keep on selling cigarettes because, as the company's CEO says, "we ... have to do what our customers are requiring us to do." That's according to Walgreens (Nasdaq: WBA) CEO Stefano Pessina, who told The Wall Street Journal in a recent interview that "we see that when we don’t sell tobacco, we have a lot of [negative] reactions.” Pessina's comments come just a few weeks after the chief of the U.S. Food and Drug Admi nistration said he wants to sit down with…
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