lifestyle drug

[Michael Quinion]

Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> OED published an entry for this about three years ago, defined as "a
> drug used to treat a condition that is not (necessarily)
> life-threatening but that has a significant impact on the quality of
> life", and with a first quotation from 1982.

See also http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-lif1.htm, an
entry which is now a little out of date, since it was written in
1998.

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