This should actually be the point as far as CVS or any other drugstore that sells magic water. It’s not in line with your desired image as a place concerned with people’s health.
It’s very much in line with the image of exploiting people to sell them a fake remedy, and an indication that evidence-based health care is not your concern.
Um, if you outlaw homeopathic medicine, only outlaws will be homeopaths?
(Well, it works for guns!)
Well, minimal oversight. Since DSHEA things have been moving in the right direction, if slowly.
I get the OP’s dislike for homeopathic products, but still, if I were to come home and tell my wife that I’d quit smoking, I guess I wouldn’t expect to be berated because I still leave my socks on the floor.
They’re trying to rebrand themselves as minor medical clinics (vaccinations, etc.), and they decided that cigarettes don’t fit that image.
Presumably, their decision isn’t likely to decrease cigarette consumption at all; it’s just going to drive that business to supermarkets and convenience stores. It’s a bit of a gamble for CVS as to whether the anticipated clinical revenue will make up the difference.
Ehh…I get the OP’s point, and there is some hypocrisy there, but if you were given the power to eliminate one product from the world with the goal of improving health, I’d argue that getting rid of cigarettes would do more good than getting rid of homeopathy, and I say that as a fully paid-up member of the “Homeopathy is Idiotic” club.
The worst part is, they’re in plain view on the shelf, with no restrictions. What if a small child were to get their hands on a homeopathic tincture and overdose by drinking too little of it?
Second hand smoke kills 50000 Americans a year. Homeopathic remedies do nothing but drain a few wallets, and maybe help via the placebo effect.
I wonder if we could redirect Jenny McCarthy towards the idea that homeopathic medicine causes autism? It would be a chance for us to use her awesome powers of stupidity for good rather than evil.
People can overdose on homeopathic medicine.
Natalie Wood did.
And that Beach Boys guy!
“Name three woods that dont float…”
CVS really needs to tout homeopathic smoking cessation aids.
What has irked me is the signs up saying something like “We’ll quit with you”.
Dude I didn’t know that a corporation could smoke.
Too bad they can’t get lung cancer either.
The homeopathy didnt hurt them- ignorance did. Or, in this case, lack of real medicine did.
And that ignorance is compounded by mixing homeopathy with real medicine. The ignorance wasn’t a lack of knowledge of disease, it was a lack of understanding that homeopathy is not an alternative.
Still, I don’t think anyone could argue against the statement that cigarettes do more harm in today’s world than does homeopathy.
I’m sorry, what was the difference, again ? 
Soda pop and potato chips probably cause more harm than homeopathic medicine too, but I bet you CVS is not racing forward with plans to take them off the shelves. 
So then the more valid argument would be to say that CVS is hypocritical for banning cigarettes, but not junk food.