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Fake Viagra pills (top and bottom left) beside real ones (top and bottom right) AP Photo/Elise Amendola/Fire

Pfizer to officially sell Viagra on the internet to fight fake drugs

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DRUG COMPANY PFIZER is to start selling Viagra online in a bid to fight counterfeit drugs which have been eating into its market share.

The pharmaceutical giant said on its website that it is launching Viagra home delivery “to meet the needs of consumers who are increasingly going online to purchase prescription medications”. The service is only available to people living in the United States.

Viagra is single most counterfeited medicine produced by Pfizer, the company said.

There are almost 24 millions searches every year on the internet by people looking for Viagra online.  In the 15 years since it was first launched, Viagra has sold millions of tablets to treat erectile disfunction in men – but has also seen a booming black market open up in counterfeit drugs as people try to buy it cheaply or without a prescription.

“By offering men with erectile disfunction convenient access and a legitimate alternative to purchase Viagra online, our hope is that Pfizer will help rein in the distribution of fake erectile disfunction products,” said Victor Clavelli of Pfizer.

Pfizer said people will only be able to buy Viagra online if they have a valid prescription.

“Through our ongoing analyses, we’ve seen how fake pharmacy websites can lure consumers into buying counterfeit medicines with what seems to be an easy purchasing experience, but it may be putting their health at risk,” said Carmen Catizone of the US National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:23 PM

    Just drop the Sun full stop..

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:28 PM

    Get rid of page 3, I’d get rid of page 1,2,3,4,5,6…in fact the whole paper. It’s a rubbish paper with very little relevant news, might be ok for sport but that’s about it.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:35 PM

    He can’t get rid of page 3 otherwise there’ll be a gap between page 2 and page 4.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:54 PM

    Obviously there will be no page 4 now

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:22 PM

    Ahh Tits, it was the only reason I bought the bloody paper :)

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    Feb 11th 2013, 9:43 PM

    Now there’s two more reasons not to buy the Sun.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:27 PM

    Murdoch has cheapened society with his muck empire .Boycott his print dumbdumb papers .

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:57 PM

    You said it, Murdock the Muckraker.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:22 PM

    If the market wants it then give it to them. What will builders do without page 3!

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:25 PM

    What builders…….

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:32 PM

    Plenty of builders this side of the pond. The world consists of more than Ireland.

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    If page 3 goes, how will we keep abreast of things?

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:51 PM

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    Its no more a rag than the mirror and the star, and increasingly the independent a rag without a red top

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    What’s poor old Dannii (21) from Essex and Jakki (19) from Newcastle going to do now?

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    Celebrity Big Brother

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    Feb 11th 2013, 7:41 PM

    More a case of who will they do now!

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    Feb 11th 2013, 10:18 PM

    danni has been 21 for the last five years or so.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:23 PM

    Looks like he lived through the whole century himself……….

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    The no more page 3 group, brought to you by ugly single women with low self esteem…

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    Feb 11th 2013, 9:05 PM

    Probably no chebbs either.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:27 PM

    Although the sun is a rag, if he gets rid of page 3 no one will buy it, and it will go out of business( which is not a bad thing). I can’t see him doing it as he will lose money as a result.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:46 PM

    He has this unprofitable attachment to newspapers; they don’t make much money anymore. Most of Newscorp’s revenue comes from their movies, channels, sports, cable, social media, etc.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:33 PM

    As long as they dont get rid of Zoo or Nuts I dont care if they get rid of Page 3. Plenty of tits on Nuts and Zoo

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:42 PM

    Page 3 is the breast page in the paper

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    Lindsay 23, Essex, will not be pleased!

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:44 PM

    A bit like yourself Rupert.. Last century

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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:59 PM

    Baps

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    Feb 11th 2013, 8:06 PM

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    What about those poor unfortunate exploited girls.
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    Feb 11th 2013, 6:45 PM

    Page 1, page 2, page 4….wtf?

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    Feb 11th 2013, 7:42 PM

    Is he going to have a 2A page instead, or just page 1, 2 and 4.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 11:02 PM

    let’s hope he considers this much in the same way the organisation he runs considered phone tapping.

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    Feb 11th 2013, 9:33 PM

    He’s too old to be looking at page 3 anyway.

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