Tom, Brooke, pick up drug advertising slack

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With pharmaceutical companies evaluating their advertising, it’s becoming more and more difficult to get solid information on how to stay properly medicated. Good for Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields for picking up some of the slack. The celebrity spat over use of prescription drugs has reached the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, where Shields today goes all Oprah with the tale of her battle with post-partum depression (headline: "War of Words." Cruise wins, even under attack!).

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