All the women in my extended family pay attention to those feminine hygiene ads.
I am glad they do.
I am glad they do.
Prescription drug commercials should be banned.
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Lawyer ads should be banned, just like they banned cigarette ads, comparison is about the same.LOL
Haven't seen ads for amoxicillin... 
I agree with you 100%. My opinion is any drug advertised on TV has a price in excess of $10 P/Pill. In addition to having 23 minutes of advertising per hour you have the drug's to put up with. I usually record the shows I want to watch, then fast forward through the commercials.
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I am sick of the incessant prescription drug commercials on TV. Listen carefully when they say "Do not take Progestanolopol if you are allergic to Progestanolopol."
How in hell do you know if you are allergic to their magic pills unless you take them? Catch 22. Quite frankly, after listening to all the possible side effects (including death), and in spite of the clips of all the happy people frolicking in the sunshine, there's no way I'd take any of them.
I think ads promoting prescription drugs to the general public should be banned - it would be better to send flyers about their stuff to medical doctors who can prescribe them with some knowledge of their efficacy on individual patients and the risk/reward decisions considering all the dangerous side effects.
It's not right to pitch to the general public and try to con them into getting their doctors to prescribe when the public does not have the necessary knowledge to do that.
Just a pet peeve. I now return you to your other interests.
John
Oddly enough, commercials for prescription drugs USED TO BE BANNED, and essentially for the same reasons you bring up. Chock up another victory for Big Pharma...
I can't vouch for the veracity of this story but I remember reading in Reader's Digest All In A Days Work a story about a Dr. who prescribed (I think) Penicillin to a patient who subsequently suffered a severe allergic reaction. After the issue was dealt with the Doctor asked the patient is he was aware of his allergy. The patient replied that he had a similar reaction every time he took Penicillin.
Bottom line HUMAN BEINGS ARE STUPID and need to be told these things.
What I like about these commercials is the part where they tell you to "Ask your Doctor is Hart's Ringworm Medication is right for you."
Every Doctor I ever worked for would have told the patient that HE was the Doctor and that HE would practice the medicine and HE would do the prescribing
First Amendment is a thing bro.
What other Constitutionally protected freedoms do you think should be banned?
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All I can say on the topic is that as goofy as the ads are, they must work. We are Americans, and what we really believe is that there is a pill that will cure what ails us even if we continue our self destructive behavior unabated. It's our fantasy, and so the ads works.
Interesting tangent. Met a guy a while back that works for small pharma, a hyperfocused company working on rare blood disorders many of which are genetic. Well they came up with a cure for one. So far no serious side effects, and instead of a lifetime of treatment costing about $500k/yr they have a single dose cure. I'm interest to see if someone buys them to kill the treatment, but if not he said that figuring out the pricing is not easy. Think $2.5 to $3.0 million for single shot given to an infant.
Interesting tangent. Met a guy a while back that works for small pharma, a hyperfocused company working on rare blood disorders many of which are genetic. Well they came up with a cure for one. So far no serious side effects, and instead of a lifetime of treatment costing about $500k/yr they have a single dose cure. I'm interest to see if someone buys them to kill the treatment, but if not he said that figuring out the pricing is not easy. Think $2.5 to $3.0 million for single shot given to an infant.
As a card carrying, dues paying human being I don't quite believe that I fit the clinical definition of "stupid" although I am a work in progress.
They only do so because the politicians require them to do so.I will 2nd that.
The drug companies are honest enough to list the possible harmful side effects and the political candidates never do that
But the politicians exempt themselves.
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I saw the following sequence a few nights ago I saw this sequence:
1) You need a CPAP machine to prevent heart attacks and fatigue.
2) Your CPAP machine will make you sick unless you use this CPAP cleaning device.
3) If you or someone you love used a CPAP machine and got sick call Dewey, Cheatham and Howe. You could be entitled to significant compensation.
1) You need a CPAP machine to prevent heart attacks and fatigue.
2) Your CPAP machine will make you sick unless you use this CPAP cleaning device.
3) If you or someone you love used a CPAP machine and got sick call Dewey, Cheatham and Howe. You could be entitled to significant compensation.
They used to have salesmen go around giving free samples of stuff for the doctors to let their patients try to see if they work on their pain or infections or whatever their problem is. All she'll give me now is packets of 81mg aspirins.
I'd love to see an app for my tv that filters out ads for people I can't vote for anyway
I agree with John 110% on this one, but unfortunately no one cares what we think. There's money to be made! 
(And likely some of it spread around! )
(And likely some of it spread around! )
Ah, the good old days of just reading a label.
mckenney99
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I forget which drug it was that had as a side effect of: "sudden unexpected anal leakage". Yeah, I'm gonna jump all over that one.
Just another reason to be glad I turned off the TV - permanently...
Me too. 12 years ago.
Other than being annoying they haven't done me no harm. Now those pizza , ice cream and fast food commercials…..well.
I'm constantly battling medical people that prescribe this and that and whatever with no mention of the side effects. Friday I was given an Rx, went to the pharmacy to pick up, first words out of his mouth was May Cause Blurred Vision. And it is marked in BIG letters on the bottle. I'm already having that problem before this! And I have to take it for 2 weeks to know if it will help my problem. I'll try for a week and if I have more vision problems, then no more of those pills.
Today a new Rx for something else,(swollen feet and ankles), the drug is also for high blood pressure. What! I have low blood pressure so I could get light headed and easily pass out.
Thankfully both meds were cheap, but really? the "cure" sounds almost worse than the ailment.
And don't get me started on cholesterol meds........
I spent 10 years advocating for my late husband's medical care so am very aware Brand Name ripoffs and sometimes a Rx will cost you less on private pay than a co-pay on insurance.
I watch very little TV but I don't think prescription drugs should be advertised. Not to mention the cost of those. Advertising is not research and development.
Rant over...
Today a new Rx for something else,(swollen feet and ankles), the drug is also for high blood pressure. What! I have low blood pressure so I could get light headed and easily pass out.
Thankfully both meds were cheap, but really? the "cure" sounds almost worse than the ailment.
And don't get me started on cholesterol meds........
I spent 10 years advocating for my late husband's medical care so am very aware Brand Name ripoffs and sometimes a Rx will cost you less on private pay than a co-pay on insurance.
I watch very little TV but I don't think prescription drugs should be advertised. Not to mention the cost of those. Advertising is not research and development.
Rant over...
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