Word: druggists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focus has brought condoms out from under the druggist's counter. Trojan for Women, Mentor, Today sheaths and other brands can be found packaged in pastel-colored boxes in the feminine-hygiene sections of drugstores, supermarkets and convenience stores. One 27-year-old New Jersey executive, who admits to a "private blush" as she bought her first box of condoms, appreciates the new openness. "They weren't at the counter," she says. "I could comparison shop." Mentor Corp., based in Santa Barbara, Calif., helped crack the women's market in 1986 with the slogan "Smart Sex in the '80s." Says...
...keeping them out of trouble." One sign of the times: the fear of AIDS injected a note of caution to the usual sex-charged atmosphere of spring break. Comic Jay Leno drew cheers by noting that it was "National Condom Week," and the island's lone druggist, Ed Walsh, reported a brisk business in the ten brands he stocks...
...sexy as the symbols from past generations ("Another time I saw Ms. Fawcett-Majors, she was on TV selling shaving cream. If that's what it took to arouse my passions, long-ago I would have leaped over the counter and into the arms of Mr. Solomon, my druggist.") Later, however, he defends Mayor Byrne from her critics among Chicago's "macho" firemen...
...drug companies encourage skepticism among doctors and pharmacists about the quality of some generic products. Sandoz last year ran an ad in the American Druggist magazine for the tranquilizer Mellaril. It showed an elderly woman with an alarmed look on her face. In her hand was a vial that apparently contained a generic imitation of Mellaril. The text implied that a switch to a generic version of Mellaril could cause increased side effects, including symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease. The FDA said that the claims in the ad were false and ordered Sandoz to withdraw...
...pills. Moreover, many drugstore chains are pushing low-priced generics. Walgreens, with 947 outlets in 30 states and Puerto Rico, says that when one of its pharmacists receives a prescription marked "no substitution," he is to call the doctor before filling the order. With the patient standing by, the druggist tells the physician how much more the brand-name drug costs than the generic...