walgreens on tobacco road will no longer sell to ages under 21 WALGREENS - Updated July 2026

Walgreens Boots Chief Executive Stefano Pessina said that the reason the pharmacy chain isn't giving up selling cigarettes in all its stores is that "when we don't sell tobacco, we have a lot of (negative) reactions," in an interview with the Wall Street Journal

Walgreens sheer size it has over 8,200 drugstores in the U.S

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Walgreens, one of the nations largest drugstore chains, is included in the Retail Pharmacy USA Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise