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Five things you need to know about winter remedies

Many years ago, Private Eye published a cartoon showing an undertaker posing next to a Rolls-Royce alongside the caption: “Yes, you could say death’s been good to me”. Given cough medicines alone are worth £100m a year, a similar (though less macabre) sentiment is true for winter remedies

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