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GM spends big on viagra

Standing tall: GM product boss Bob Lutz.

General Motors exposed as the world's largest private buyer of Viagra

21 April 2006

By NEIL McDONALD

THIS week’s Detroit News has reported that General Motors spends $US17 million ($23 million) a year on Viagra and is the world’s largest private purchaser of the drug.

Viagra and other impotence drugs are bought for thousands of GM’s 1.1 million employees, retirees and dependents covered under its health-care scheme.