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To the Editor: In addition to the traditional types of gifts from pharmaceutical companies recently alluded to in the Journal,^1,2 I wish to alert readers to the distribution of unsolicited gifts through the mail. Recently, I received a preprogrammed auto-dialer that will connect me (toll-free) to the "Respiratory Season Hot Line" of a major pharmaceutical company so that I can place my order for samples of antibiotics. Another pharmaceutical concern has sent me a sample of coffee (decaffeinated, at least) to accompany promotional material showing close-up portraits of grateful men in olfactory nirvana greedily sniffing steaming mugs of java. No . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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