Europe
In many (continental) European countries medication is more often dispensed via suppository than a pill to be taken orally.
(Smale is stuffed, Thu 28 May 2009, 13:30, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Hence the joke...
...about the English tourist complaining that the tablets he was given weren't very effective.

"I could have been sticking them up my arse for all the good they've done!"
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 2 Jun 2009, 10:12, Reply)