These items are very dear, and a 22% value-added tax makes it all the worse. (We rely on packages from home for new winter coats and shoes.) Common over-the-counter medicines, such as aspirin, aren't available without a prescription.

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And you can't get around that just by taking a little aspirin.

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Meanwhile, Gibbons points out, many of the people who entered Jupiter should already have been taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks but weren't.

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If you have established heart disease you should take aspirin (unless there are contraindications) and if you don't fall into that category, then you should not.

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Women who took aspirin had a 13 percent lower risk of breast cancer than those who didn't, while those who took ibuprofen had a 21 percent lower risk.

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