[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 22:25 on 22/03/98
about "Re: Statins for everyone":
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>malarials... The quick and dirty solution would be statins on the NHS
>post MI and available on a private script (or OTC?) as primary
prophylaxis.
1. Antimalarials are prescribable on FP10 for prophylaxis. The ban
by a previous (and rightly sent packing by the voters)
administration is probably ultra vires and certainly did not amount
to a proper use of the blacklisting process available to them.
Mind you, one might well take note of the expressed wishes of a
health minister in deciding what to do...
>Lets get really uncomfortable, should the NHS fund prophylaxis
treatment of
>a smoker who is spending even more of their own money rushing to an
early
>grave?
2. Try a simpler question. Should the NHS pick up the tab for
treating the passive smoker whose heart attack was partly due to the
aforesaid smoker smoking at them, and the promotion of the smoking
materials to smokers by the corporate criminals of the tobacco
industry?
The correct tax point for tobacco is that point at which a fall in
_revenue_ from the taxation is demonstrated, or a little over that,
certainly no lower. Kill the smoky goose despite the golden eggs it
produces.
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