# Why is there retail marketing of prescription-only meds?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-retail-marketing-of-prescription-only-meds/96225>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 1, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-retail-marketing-of-prescription-only-meds/96225 "2001-12-01T00:21:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-retail-marketing-of-prescription-only-meds/96225/21 "2001-12-03T23:01:45Z")

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Like them or not, the ads DO work in terms of profits and sales.

[http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011121/hl/consumers\_1.html](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011121/hl/consumers_1.html)

story about how bug a chunk of the market they have.

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