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> Correct. Promoting aspirin as "good for the heart" is too generic of a phrase; such generalization may lead to healthy people unnecessarily taking a daily aspirin just because it is "good for the heart".

Well, Bayer runs (or ran) ads encouraging just that behavior.

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> Well, Bayer runs (or ran) ads encouraging just that behaviour.

Such a thing would never fly in Europe. They'd get laughed out of the room and sued.

Be that as it may, their German scruples didn't stop them from running a huge ad campaign in the US to this effect.

I remember those ads. Googling, it looks like the FTC did rebuke Bayer for their behavior in 2000. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1070790/

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