Note the following piece. How many of us think that anyone would bother to smuggle Vasomax from Mexico to any other country?
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Headline: Authorities Seize Viagra Tablets Smuggled From Mexico
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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- Border Patrol agents seized 1,046
tablets of Viagra that authorities say a Japanese tourist bought in
Mexico and intended to smuggle back to Japan for resale, the Associated
Press reported.
The tourist, a 41-year-old man from Tokyo, planned to resell the
wildly popular impotence drug in Japan, Border Patrol spokesman Bill
Strassberger said Thursday. A receipt indicated he bought the tablets in
Tijuana.
"He freely spoke about the fact that he had bought it in Mexico and
intended to sell it back home," Strassberger said. "He was claiming that
he could sell it for as much as $300 per tablet."
The government-set price for Viagra in Mexico is about 96.40 pesos a
pill - about $11.20 - a few dollars higher than in the U.S.
Viagra, made by Pfizer Inc. (PFE), requires a doctor's prescription
in both the U.S. and Mexico, but is widely sold in Tijuana pharmacies
without one.
The man was stopped Sunday at a backup border checkpoint about 50
miles north of San Diego.
The man and his companions were released pending a decision by
prosecutors, but Strassberger said charges are unlikely in such cases.
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