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Drug firms seek profit in giveaways

Marketing targets consumer loyalty

By Christopher Rowland
Globe Staff / January 17, 2005

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Christopher Lemley is a marketing professor at Georgia State University who has seen it all when it comes to consumer advertising of prescription drugs. Yet even he was impressed when GlaxoSmithKline sent him a free pillowcase. (Full article: 1070 words)

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