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Pharma Must List All Side-Effects on Ads
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Pharma Must List All Side-Effects on Ads
What a month its been !!
Did you hear RFK Jr.’s new rule, TV drug commercials must list every known side-effect no more cherry-picking the “most common” ones.
Pharma now faces a choice:
⚖️ 60-second spot with 45 seconds of warnings or
🚫 skip TV altogether.
A full ban would still need the Supreme Court to overturn the 1976 Virginia State Board of Pharmacy ruling that protects pharma ads as “commercial speech.”
Would you rather see drug ads disappear entirely, or do full side-effect lists satisfy transparency?
If we start kicking ads off the air, which categories should be next?
Ultra-processed food?
Online sports-betting?
Let me know your thoughts below.
What the clip here https://rumble.com/v6ypx6u-big-pharma-now-has-to-list-all-side-effects-on-pharma-ads.html
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BIG PHARMA now has to list ALL side effects on Pharma Ads
BIG PHARMA now has to list ALL side effects on Pharma Ads
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Some people can still remember tobacco ads on television. Congress banned airing cigarette ads, April 1, 1970.
When I think back to my childhood and watching TV, I can’t say I recall ever seeing an advertisement for a pharmaceutical. Now, it seems that at least, what, 50% of the ads are pharmaceuticals? If you jack up the price to advertise and only the pharmaceutical industry can afford the ad space, I can see how this could happen.
Worse, there’s no entertainment factor in them. Drugs are such an abstract thing that showing someone throwing a frisbee to their dog is how you advertise something called Azumixulflub (I made that up, but it sounds real doesn’t it?) I watch TV for entertainment and my take on it is these are the most boring thing on TV to watch.
Worse, doctors are no longer the ones that come up with the prescription, the patients are. “Doc, I saw an advertisement for Azumixulflub, can you prescribe that to me?” Can you spot what is wrong with this picture?
Alcohol is still legal to advertise on television, but that industry at least has the scruples to come up with some rules of their own https://legalclarity.org/can-you-legally-advertise-alcohol-on-tv/ . “A primary focus of these codes is ad placement, using a demographic standard to ensure ads primarily reach adults.”
If I was watching Nickelodeon and a Courvoisier advertisement came up, I would have a problem with that.
As far as I’m concerned, the only audience that is appropriate is people with a medical degree (and I would go so far as to argue that shouldn’t happen either). Further, they’re as fun to watch as drying paint. I don’t know how many times I’ve turned to my wife to ask, “What exactly is that one supposed to be for?”
legalclarity.org
Can You Legally Advertise Alcohol on TV?
Explore the framework governing alcohol ads on television, a system where voluntary industry codes often play a more significant role than direct federal law.
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I think my biggest gripe is what it does to the minds of the American public. We’re being programmed to think there is a Big Pharma pill for every issue you have in life. In fact, live care free, don’t worry about what you eat, just wait for the symptom and get the pill that addresses that symptom.
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👍 It’s such a subtle, unsubtle thing that programming. Once you see it, can’t unsee it, but you have to see it first otherwise…
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👍 Very well said!
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