Article: Dieters here greet Alli skeptically: Side effects may deter most potential users of OTC pill.

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 ...

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