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Photo: Tero Vesalainen
Photo: Tero Vesalainen (Shutterstock)

In a lot of other countries, pharmaceutical companies aren’t allowed to hawk their products directly to consumers, because regulators think your doctor should have a bigger influence on the medicine you take than marketing budgets. But in the United States, companies are free to advertise their pills directly to you. Pfizer won’t be doing it on Twitter, though, at least not for the time being. The company paused its Twitter spending last week.