Sid Smith, a cardiologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, also said he would like to see more data.

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Sid Smith, a cardiologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, commented that he would hope the Acomplia could be used to "jump-start" overweight patients so that they could learn to eat better and exercise more.

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He would do newspaper, radio and TV interviews -- especially with Merriman Smith, Hugh Sidey, Sid Davis, Forrest Boyd, Ray Scherer, Helen Thomas, Marianne Means, Walter Cronkite, Phil Potter, Bob Novak.

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