CVS to remove tobacco products earlier than planned

UNDATED (AP) – CVS has decided to speed up its promise to stop selling tobacco products. The nation’s second-largest drugstore chain is removing its tobacco products nearly a month earlier than planned. The cigars and cigarettes behind the counter have been replaced with nicotine gum and other products to help smokers kick the habit. Also, CVS Caremark will now be known as CVS Health. But the signs on its roughly 7,700 drugstores won’t change.