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Florida’s Attorney General has joined A.G.s from two other states to demand that a clothing company stop selling a line of T-shirts. It’s not the price — $58, or $98 if you want them with long sleeves — but because of the message on them. Rather than a person’s name on the back of the sports jersey-style shirts, they’re emblazoned with the names of several popular prescription drugs: Vicodin (a pain reliever), Xanax (a tranquilizer), or Adderall (a stimulant used to treat ADHD). The A.G.s’ letter, to California-based Kitson, and released to the press, says that “prescription drug abuse is not fun or humorous,” and asks the company to withdraw the shirts. The company has responded that it will — as soon as the TV networks stop taking advertising money from the drug companies. The A.G.s say the shirts have no redeeming social value, in that they “do not ‘open the door to a dialogue,’ as the designer claims.” (RC/Orlando Sentinel) ...Wrong.