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...have congratulated ourselves, if a bit guiltily, for buying a counterfeit branded handbag or DVD, pleased to have paid so little for something that was almost as good as the real thing. Most consumers would not knowingly apply the same logic to the medicine they take-who wants imitation Viagra? But people around the world may be unwittingly buying fake pharmaceuticals all the same. A raid of a ramshackle warehouse in southern China's Guangdong province last month turned up plenty of evidence that brand-name drugs are not always what they seem. In the raid, Chinese police working with...
...imitations of "lifestyle drugs" that treat hair loss, obesity and sexual dysfunction-products for which there is high demand. But the embarrassing nature of the conditions the medications are designed to address makes policing more difficult. Many consumers prefer to bypass their doctors and buy prescription drugs such as Viagra through discreet (and often unregulated) distribution channels such as the Internet and unlicensed pharmacies. Few complain when they realize they've been had. "It's too embarrassing to admit you use Viagra and say it doesn't work," says Peter Lowe, director of the International Chamber of Commerce's Counterfeiting...
...while it’s easy to forget, junk e-mail is itself pretty old as well—it’s been around and stirring up controversy since long before Viagra. Indeed, the first e-mail chain letter was sent across the nascent Internet in 1982 right as current college seniors were being born. A good benchmark for the spread of spam is the size of various lists of potential targets offered for sale over the years—in 1995 lists of around 2 million e-mail addresses could be purchased, but this number skyrocketed...
...glamorous. The business opportunity is huge, as the billion-dollar market for sexual-performance-enhancing drugs and plastic surgery for men shows. To date, the marketing of male glamour almost without exception smacks of desperation. The Queer Eye targets are always hauled in by their women. The marketing of Viagra and Levitra is painful to behold, and indeed Viagra will soon hire a new advertising agency to manage its $100 million account...
...largest auto-parts company, entered the race this year to become leader of Canada's newly renovated Conservative Party. The battle wasn't pretty. Near the end of the 57-day campaign, a prankster handed the glamorous but politically inexperienced Stronach a sweatshirt emblazoned with the words BETTER THAN VIAGRA. Stronach soldiered through to a respectable second-place finish--and made clear that a new Canadian star was on the horizon...