The makers of the impotence drug Viagra were today forced to apologise after a factory line error led to the pills being put into tubes of Smarties, rather than medicine bottles.

The error came to light after a teacher at the Truman High School in Poughkeepsie noticed that all of the boys in her class were sporting large erections.

Miss Maddy, 56, who is considerably overweight and highly unattractive immediately, knew something was wrong, and launched an immediate investigation which led to an offending bag of smarties being identified.

A spokesman for the confectioners explained that the error came about because in a bid to beat the economic downturn a factory in Ohio had diversified into making a number of different products – among them Viagra.

“It was a simple mistake,” the spokesman said, before adding glibly “it shows that we don’t always have the answer.”

The news comes in a busy week for makers of the impotence drug as they announced attempts to expand into the Asian market, with a red pill made especially for China and one with the head of Kim Jong Il embossed upon it for the North Korean market.

The move into the tiger economy was described, without any hint of irony, by a company spokesman as an attempt to “expand and firm up our prime asset.”

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