AMA: Stores with health clinics should not sell tobacco

Retail health clinics located in grocery stores are becoming more and more common, and although the American Medical Association doesn't have a problem with the clinics themselves, it did recently enact a policy which says any store that has such a clinic should take tobacco products off its shelves.

"It's ridiculous for stores that house health clinics to sell tobacco products," said AMA board member William Dolan, MD in an announcement following the annual meeting where the policy was adopted. "To keep the objective of getting and keeping patients healthy, the sale of tobacco products must be banned from any health care facility."