The Power of the Private Sector to Save Lives
Category: IMPACT
Good news travels fast. This week's announcement by CVS Caremark that they will stop selling tobacco products by October 1 was front-page news and a topic of conversation everywhere. My first thought? What a great example of a company voluntarily doing the right thing.
By Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, Contributor
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2014-02-09