21.   By contrast, just one-quarter of the men used diet pills and fewer than one-third used laxatives.

22.   Contracts are handed out all the time in professional sports and sometimes have the same effect on the athlete as diet pills.

23.   Despite the side effects of short-term memory loss and dry mouth, Hamm is glad she started taking the diet pills.

24.   Diet pills are an acceptable study aid during finals week.

25.   Diet pills have become a national craze in the U.S., and their use is growing in Britain.

26.   Dexatrim is a once-a-day diet pill.

27.   Diet pills left him too weak to ride.

28.   Diet pills are not your friends.

29.   For several months before the pageant, Machado lived on pineapple, broccoli, Slim-Fast and diet pills.

30.   Glossy magazines are filled with only the skinniest of models and crammed with ads touting diet pills, diet teas and odd-looking weight-loss machines.