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Originally Posted by u-Bob
they are a couple of hours ahead, so early April fools?
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Nah, they introduced free prescriptions for nicotine replacement , eg patches, champix and other drugs early this year, it now costs PBS prescription prices for 3 months supply of stop smoking patches. In effect a box of patches was $30 bucks, now almost free.
We knew this was coming, the passed the plain packaging laws without one single federal member voting against it before Kevin Rudd was dismissed, even though the Libs take money from big tobacco.
Australia can't afford to keep it's health system going with the cost to the community of smoking illness.