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The National Asthma Council Australia has backed the Pharmacy Guild of Australia in supporting the Federal Government’s proposed increase in tobacco excise. Stephen Hughes, National Asthma Council Australia Director, and a community pharmacist representing the PSA on the Council’s Board, said that raising the tobacco tax was an important initiative not only to give people with asthma a better chance of achieving good asthma control but to improve health outcomes for all Australians. As reported in Pharmacy News, last Thursday, the Government announced that it will introduce a $ 5.25 tax hike on a 20 pack of cigarettes. Kos Sclavos, Guild national president, welcomed the tobacco tax rise, but called for “a small fraction†of the estimated $ 5.3 billion the tax will create…
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