NEW YORK, NY - A group of suburban New York grocery stores will no longer sell cigarettes, becoming the second local chain to sacrifice tobacco-related profits for “health reasons,” reports Crains New York Business.

John DeCicco Jr., vice president of operations at DeCicco Markets, said the grocer’s locations in Pelham, Bronxville, Scarsdale, New York and Jefferson Valley are selling off their existing inventories and will be tobacco-free by April.

The family-owned chain will likely lose several thousand dollars a week in profit, but its newest store has never sold cigarettes and continues to be financially stable, the newspaper reports. 

In January, Wegmans, which has 71 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland, announced it would stop selling tobacco. Also in January, California grocer Andronico’s Markets announced plans to stop selling tobacco products as of February 4.

“We want to try to promote better health as much as possible,” DeCicco told the newspaper. “It’s a moral decision as well in that we don’t want to promote underage smoking.”