The bulk of the $12.7 billion outlay went toward distributing free samples to doctors’ offices.
The resulting estimate of $12.7 billion is high not only in absolute terms but in relative terms, Ma noted, as the pharmaceutical industry ranks 34th among the 200 U.S. industries with the largest expenditures devoted to advertising.
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