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Lisa Well I've paid tax and NI contributions for the last 30 years so I would hope that would entitle me to just £180 worth of patches? I suppose they're hedging their bets - I have been stopped just over a year now and it may prevent me from smoking related illnesses in later years - I agree it may not but they obviously think it's worth it. Debby

I want to know when I (a smoker) am going to get a place set aside in a public area so that I can indulge my filthy (but still legal) habit away from non smokers, which is what is being proposed for drug addicts in my area. Yes, I know it's outrageous but true!! Maybe when this (or any government) has the guts to actually make tobacco illegal then we smokers will have all the benefits that the drug addicts have at the moment! Just a thought - but I think I can solve the drug crisis!! Make tobacco illegal with penalties for supplying it - say £1000 fine and upto 1 year imprisonment, but for supplying class A drugs £20,000 and 10 years. Which one do you think the pushers will go for! But to answer your original question - definitely no!! :-) Mary

shopping vouchers for drug addicts! huh!! so they get help cos they inflicted it on them selves! the system in this country stinks! it's all wrong! if you're a druggy or an alcoholic you are helped and get everything! i have been on the sick for 3 years with graves disease [overactive throid] the hospital i was at did nothing to help me get it right,just up and down with my medication,so i changed to another hospital and now i am having radioactive iodine treatment,i had a second dose last week. about 18 mths ago i was told i was fit for work,because i can walk,open a door and answer the phone!! and they stopped my benefit,i appealed,and while i was appealing they gave me £44 to live on!! in the end i had to go on the dole cos i couldn't live on £44,i stopped the appeal cos i couldn't live! i got an extra £12 on the dole,well, it was better than £44. they could see i was'nt fit for work so they put me on restricted hours [so i wouldn't get a job] then i started on my treatment,so i had to claim income support,and that is the same as the dole! the dole told me to apply for it cos they said i was on the wrong bennifit, well, i knew that!! i am hoping this second dose is going to do the trick so i can come of benifits and go back to work. if anyone has ever had this they will know how it makes you feel. so they only help the ones who inflict it on them selves, but if you genuinly sick----forget it!!! right-----i feel better for getting that off my chest! but it does annoy me!

Iam an asthmatic, who requires 2 types of inhaler, and tablets, on a daily basis.Because I am fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be able to work ,I pay for each of these medicines. What really, bloody gauls me, however, is having to wait to be served, when some junkie type comes into the pharmacy, is addressed by their first name, and given a drink of this sopposed magic elixer that makes things all right.Am I alone in feeling that this is all wrong?

I'm seeing that at my pharmacy these days too, thye just come in and get their 'presrciption', while I'm still stood waiting like a lemon...

NICE can give shopping vouchers to drug addicts but cannot afford the £2.50 a day for drugs for Alzheimers sufferers. my mum who is now on Arricept but is deteriorating cannot have her £2.50 worth of the next step Ebixa because it isn't cost effective. My mum who worked hard all her life and never inflicted any of her health problems on herself is on the scrap heap! Chris who is outraged