Walmart will no longer sell cigarettes in some of its stores, including some stores in California, Florida, Arkansas and New Mexico.
Walmart is not the first national retail chain to cut off cigarette sales even on a trial basis, but it is the largest.
Target ended cigarette sales in 1996 and the drugstore chain CVS Health did the same in 2014.
A spokesperson for the company said that decisions about which stores will be removing cigarettes will be made on a store-by-store basis.
“We are always looking at ways to meet our customers’ needs while still operating an efficient business,” Walmart said in a prepared statement.
