Guild outraged over political deal to turn pharmacists into ‘vape garbage collectors’
The Greens forced the Federal Government to alter its vaping plan.
The Federal Government’s snap decision to make vapes an OTC medicine from October has outraged the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, which says treating pharmacists as tobacconists is “insulting”.
Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler had originally planned to make e-cigarettes S4 medicines from 1 July following an initial raft of changes that came into effect at the start of the year.
