The sum of money mentioned at the start of the article corresponds to about 10 cents per person per day for the US population. But that includes the people who

The sum of money mentioned at the start of the article corresponds to about 10 cents per person per day for the US population. But that includes the people who don't take them at all, so it's about 20 cents per person per day for the people taking them. People are paying too much, I think. Multivitimin tablets from a UK supermarket cost about two pence each, which makes me think it's worth taking them just in case one's dificient. People keep claiming that absorption of vitimins in pill form is not good but they never seem to make that claim more precise: Which vitimins in particular? What aspect of pills makes absorption difficult? Is it the chemical form, the physical form, the fact they're all entering the body at one time? Without a bit more specificity it sounds to me like the sort of story people like to invent or massively overgeneralise.