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Chilean Mayor Beefs Up Support With Free Viagra

Posted Apr 30, 08 3:21 AM CDT in Science & Health,  World 

(Newser) – The mayor of a Chilean town has come up with a new way of securing support among voters: he's is handing out free Viagra. The mayor  of a working class suburb of the capital of Santiago has ordered physicians to hand out batches of the blue sex potency pills four times a month to men over 60.

The program will cost about $20,000 the first year. The mayor, a former doctor in the town, denied the free pills were intended to woo the electorate. "This is about giving our elderly population a better quality of life," he harrumphed.

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Pro-choice demonstrators protest a court decision halting government distribution of free "morning-after" pregnancy prevention pills. Meanwhile, a municipal mayor is offering free Viagra to men.   (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
Viagra could win voters. The mayor of a Chilean town is offering free Viagra to men over 60.   (Getty Images (by Event))
Viagra is to be given free to men over 60 in a town near Santiago Chile, thanks to the local mayor.   (Getty Images)
The potency pill Viagra is to be handed out free to men over 60 in a small Chilean town, courtesy of the local mayor.   (Getty Images)
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