N.H. Co-Op Food Stores May Quit Selling Tobacco

Source from:  wmur.com August 4, 2008 08/05/2008

The Co-op Food Stores in New Hampshire's Upper Valley may quit selling tobacco products and prohibit smoking at their six locations. The proposal comes a month after Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center made its campus smoke-free. Co-op general manager Terry Appleby said shoppers spent about $132,000 on cigarettes and chewing tobacco last year, amounting to two-tenths of 1 percent of the organization's $66 million in sales. Don Kreis, president of the board for the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, which owns the co-op, said tobacco isn't one of the co-op's core products. The co-op has about 16,000 active members. Enditem