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> Companies aren't allowed to advertise rat poison as medicine and neither are you.

You may want a different example :).

> Warfarin first came into large-scale commercial use in 1948 as a rat poison. Warfarin was formally approved for human use by the US FDA to treat blood clots in 1954.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfarin




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