+1,036 It makes no sense that in drugstores, sick people have to go to the back of the store to get a prescription, but healthy and able-bodied people can get cigarettes at the front of the store, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You know, it's not THAT far to the back of the store.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

yes, and people might want some privacy when picking up a prescription.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Exactly! Go guineasaurusrex :P

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I actually find the thesaurusrex to be more helpful

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(Your+name+(optional)): How about the flyingguineasaurusrex?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you're a flyingguineapigasaurusrex, though. Not a flyingguineasaurusrex. Big difference

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I often neglect to add the "pig." I feel it is derogatory, a stereotype based on our unusually high squeaking voices.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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by Anonymous 13 years ago

where's the word?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yea, but it's far for people who are crippled.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Crippled people need to buy other things from the store though. If prescriptions are too far back for them then so is everything else. You might as well say it is not fair how far back the toothpaste is, because it is too far for the crippled.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They should open a store for crippled people, they can make it like one of those crane games, all they have to do is control the crane throughout the Store and get wtf they want :?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes, good idea. Or a giant vending machine, then everything can be in the front. We won't have to complain about how far back the shampoo is. y

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why would they even have cigarettes in drugstores? :O

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because they're drugs?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Let me rephrase that: "Why would they even sell unhealthy drugs in a drugstore that's supposed to sell medicine? :O"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

because it's a source of revenue? think about it, your business model can't go wrong when your customers are ADDICTED to something.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Drug - a substance that changes the way you think and/or feel. Tobacco is a stimulant, which accelerates the heart rate, therefore changing the way you feel. So, cigarettes are a DRUG and are sold in a DRUG store. And this is why nobody talks to me in school.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(Your+name+(optional)): I know that they're drugs, it's just that where I live, drugstores only sell things that are GOOD for your health. Isn't that the whole point of a drugstore? A drugstore selling cigarettes is just so wrong ...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Everything CAN be bad for your health. Then drugstores wouldn't sell anything. Even too much water can kill you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know that everything CAN be bad for your health, but drugstores shouldn't sell things that ARE bad for your health, only things that are MOSTLY GOOD for your health.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Like cough syrup and pills?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Anything that is a medicine.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

no, cough syrup and pills are bad for you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, have you never heard of purple drank?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I said anything that is a medicine. If there are unhealthy cough syrup and pills they shouldn't be in a drugstore.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

.. They use regular cough syrup and pills for those types of things I believe. And all drugs are hazardous, that's what side effects are, and people overdose on purpose and by accidet all of the time. If you can't sell drugs that are bad for you there would be no drug stores at all.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So explain again then why perfectly legal prescription drugs are among the most abused drugs today? I don't think your drug store only sells things that are "GOOD" for you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you're right, they should open up a different type of drugstore for the non-medicine drugs, like cigarettes and cocaine.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They already do, it's called my house

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe they are getting prescription cigarettes?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's called medical marijuana, bro.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

SHH.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nah, pretty sure it'd be medical tobacco, considering cigarettes aren't marijuana.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You could make a cigarette out of marijuana

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, that's just a joint

by Anonymous 13 years ago

^ Exactly, what I was going to say.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What if the people getting cigarettes are born from a mother who caused them to be addicted to nicotine since birth, and what if the sick people are sick from doing to much heroin, don't judge.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm replying to myself, and that is funny for some reason.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And because I said that, it's going to get voted down.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

HAHAHA LOL

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't think it's even close to funny, but okay...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No one cares about your personal sense of humour

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(Your+name+(optional)): Maybe that's why it's my PERSONAL sense of humor.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's America for ya... -_-

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, this is Patrick.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Bad form

by Anonymous 13 years ago

NO! THIS is Patrick! Identity theft! Identity theft!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, this is the only level.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Cigarettes aren't that bad for you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Serious? I smoke and I disagree with you

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, and cancer isn't that bad either. no

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(<3): I know right? They're only the leading cause of death in the world, but thats not even a big deal because people are going to die eventually anyways, and they're extremely addictive, but so what? How else are they going to sell the product? And the makers of the product even say theyre bad for you, but why listen to them? They obviously don't know what theyre talking about since they're selling the product in the first place. Sheesh, why DO people think they're so bad? Also, if you're trolling, I feel like aa retard now.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'd like more sarcasm please, with a dash of sardonic.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hehe

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

and that comes from... http://www.instantdrumroll.com/ SMOKING!!!!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Also, Obesity, Genetics, old age, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis... Shall I go on?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

sure, why not?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, I could, but I would probably just end up making up stuff out of indignation.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's only the leading cause of death because a lot of people are taking it. They aren't that harmful, but when billions of people are taking it, it leads to a lot of death.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I want you to reread what you wrote, and then I want you to go take a walk and think about.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If a more people drank, then smoking wouldn't be the leading cause of death, right?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

BUT IT IS.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, the leading cause of death is high cholesterol, aka being obese. I think that is just North America though, doubt it's the whole world

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah. pft, the rest of the world is just too cool for obesity, but somehow most of the deaths are from it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They want people to get ill so they need drugs. You know it's worked when sombody walks to the back of the store to get something then buys cigarettes too. The cashier is secretly twiddling a non-existant mustache saying "Bwahaha, our cunning plan to slowly induce sickness on these peasants is working!"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They're in front? That's crazy! What are they smoki...oh wait.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you're a smoker, you probably aren't very healthy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Pharmacies are usually not directly affiliated with the stores they're within, so they want to make a distinction between the store part and the pharmacy part. The pharmacy is the smaller entity within the location so it makes sense that they would get secondary placement. And, as mentioned, the issue of privacy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'd kina prefer it if no one but me and the cashier saw I was buying midol or diarrhea medicine. Going to the back is an easier way not to be seen.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You can also get condoms at the front of a drugstore. Giggity Giggity hello

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What drugstore is that? All the ones I've seen are in the aisles closer to the pharmacy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They have condoms at the front usually, at CVS. haha

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh, condoms are in the back at the CVS by my house. By the pharmacy...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

OH WAH

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Pointless POTD is pointless

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Stupid comments are stupid

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because your POTD was sooooo much better. Just ignore it. And I am aware you are a troll. But no reason to waste your time on a stupid troll like that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My POTD ruled.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Successful troll was successful. But I didn't find it a high quality troll.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the whole prescription drug business is corrupt as fuck anyway

by Anonymous 13 years ago

those healthy and able bodied people smoking won't be so healthy for long if they keep on smoking..

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you're too fat and lazy to walk to the back of the store, then you should be looked way further down upon than any smoker. That being said, where I live, you can't sell smokes anywhere that has a pharmacy anymore.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They said *sick* people, not fat lazy people.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Um... BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE DRIVE THRUs USUALLY ARE? So the ill don't have to walk at all... I can't believe no one has said this. http://www.flickr.com/photos/retailmania/4727581719/ U wanna put the drive thru in the front

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That looks exactly like the Walgreens near my house.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What a lame POTD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Smoking may be bad for you, but it takes a lot longer to have effects on you than say, eating nothing but fast food. Having a diet with a high amount of fast food in it will kill you way faster than smoking will, and being obese your whole life is just as bad as smoking.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, smoking will have pretty quick effects on you. I smoked one cigarette one day, and the next morning my throat hurt.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That could have been caused by other things, and if it wasnt that was probably just because you were new to it and it irritated your throat, you could get the same thing from sitting around a campfire

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, you could. Because smoke is bad for you. It doesn't take long to develop "smokers cough."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, I've been smoking for 2 years, plus a year on and off before that, and I still don't have a smokers cough

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You might not notice it, but even if you don't have the cough that doesn't mean you're not hurting yourself just because you've got no outward signs.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know I'm hurting myself, that's quote obviouse. But what I was saying was eating nothing but fast food works a lot faster

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think it depends. If you smoke once every other day it's not as bad as someone who has fast food every meal. But if you smoke a pack a day that's worse than someone who has fast food maybe once every few months. Both will kill you eventually anyway...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Having fast food once a month won't kill you. Have you ever watched super size me?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, I meant in large quantities. Smoking once a month won't kill you either. And Super Size Me was so gross... But it made a very valid point that I think people ignore when it comes to food.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I still think if you smoked a pack a day for a month, as a long time smoker, it would have a slower effect on you as apposed to eating fast food three times a day

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I still think if you smoked a pack a day for a month, as a long time smoker, it would have a slower effect on you as apposed to eating fast food three times a day

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think it could equal out depending on amount. I'm not really sure which is worse. I've seen more than enough people with cancer from smoking and diabetes from a piss poor diet.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not just diabetes, there are a whole mess of other things that get fucked up from a bad diet. It fucks with your liver as bad as alcohol does just to name one

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And smoking causes more than just lung cancer. I was just giving examples.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Please, the sick people are really the able-bodied ones, I mean, the smokers are already wheezing before they come through the door.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you didn't make this up

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's a reward for staying healthy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It makes a lot of sense. You need quite a bit of space to keep prescription drugs as there are many different kinds and they all need to be quickly and easily accessible at the same time. This space also needs to be inaccessible to customers. It's usually impractical to have a large fenced off area at the front of a shop. Also, keeping the prescription meds at the back means that people need to walk past all the other stock to get there, making impulse buys far more likely; similarly they usually put milk, bread etc. at the back of grocery stores.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You indirectly called smokers "healthy, able-bodied people". That's not entirely true

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Completely unoriginal. If this is POTD, I'm losing faith in humanity.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

'Cause it's fo' me, WEEZY F BABY! *AHA*

by Anonymous 13 years ago

that's commercial advertising for ya.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

people who smoke is stupid

by Anonymous 13 years ago

5 words and 3 grammatical errors, that's pretty impressive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

shut up guy your to dumb for me to talk to

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's it, keep digging yourself deeper.

by Anonymous 13 years ago