Anacin

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Anacin

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An example involves Anacin, a brand of aspirin. In the late 1970s the maker of Anacin ran advertisements claiming that clinical tests showed that Anacin delivered the same headache relief as the leading pain-relief prescription medicine. The advertisement did not mention that aspirin itself was the leading pain…
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An example involves Anacin, a brand of aspirin. In the late 1970s the maker of Anacin ran advertisements claiming that clinical tests showed that Anacin delivered the same headache relief as the leading pain-relief prescription medicine. The advertisement did not mention that aspirin itself was the leading pain…
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