Pharmacies are reporting a boom in nicotine replacement products following the Federal Government’s 25 per cent tax hike on cigarettes.
National Pharmacies has reported that sales of nicotine patches, nicotine products and similar products have shot up more than 30 per cent since the tax was introduced at the end of April.
“I think you can safely say the substantial increase in the cost of tobacco has convinced thousands of Australians to try to give up smoking,” said Neale Burton, general manager of professional services at National Pharmacies.
“The tax was imposed at the end of April and in the first week of May our sales of nicotine replacement products went up by six per cent then in the second week it hit...
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