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Article: Dieters here greet Alli skeptically: Side effects may deter most potential users of OTC pill.
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- AZ Daily Star
- Article date:
- June 15, 2007
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Byline: Carla McClain
Jun. 15--It's not new, and it's no miracle pill. But that's not stopping the all-out, megabucks effort under way to make you think it is.
And by early accounts, overweight America is indeed surging to drugstores and supermarkets to snatch up the newest and much-hyped weight-loss drug hitting the market today.
But in Tucson, the reaction so far to Alli -- the first FDA-approved, over-the-counter diet pill -- appears to be somewhat tepid, at least among the experts and those experienced in the weight-loss game.
"No, I won't be in the crowds trying to get this on Friday -- if there are crowds," said Tucsonan Dorian ...