Should Big Pharma Ads Be Banned?

[1srelluc]

From all forms of TV! If they can ban tobacco adds from TV, we shouldn't have to suffer through this pharma onslaught.

RFK Jr wants to ban them. We are one of two countries that allows it. The other (New Zealand) is much more regulated.

They should be limited to medical magazines.

Pharma ads are nothing more than leverage to keep the news media from running stories against their industry.

Basically, they pay the network so well that nothing negative is ever broadcasted about them. Some sourses claim that 80% of TV ad revenue comes from big pharma.

Before you start, I know.....1st Amendment concerns.
So explain how it's OK to ban certain adds like tobacco products but Big Pharma is a 1A poster child?

Reading this might cause:

Spontaneous Bowel evacuation, breast enlargement in men, swollen uvula, facial boils, unknown tongue fungus, sudden debilitating chronic headache, loss of eyesight, sudden aversion to politicians, and impacted bowl syndrome!

 

[rightwinger]

I never understood the purpose of those ads

Only a doctor can prescribe those drugs and Big Pharm is already paying them off.

From my experience, any drug that has an ad on TV is very expensive

 

[westwall]

From all forms of TV! If they can ban tobacco adds from TV, we shouldn't have to suffer through this pharma onslaught.

RFK Jr wants to ban them. We are one of two countries that allows it. The other (New Zealand) is much more regulated.

They should be limited to medical magazines.

Pharma ads are nothing more than leverage to keep the news media from running stories against their industry.

Basically, they pay the network so well that nothing negative is ever broadcasted about them. Some sourses claim that 80% of TV ad revenue comes from big pharma.

Before you start, I know.....1st Amendment concerns.
So explain how it's OK to ban certain adds like tobacco products but Big Pharma is a 1A poster child?

Reading this might cause:

Spontaneous Bowel evacuation, breast enlargement in men, swollen uvula, facial boils, unknown tongue fungus, sudden debilitating chronic headache, loss of eyesight, sudden aversion to politicians, and impacted bowl syndrome!

Yes, they should.

 

[JoeMoma]

From all forms of TV! If they can ban tobacco adds from TV, we shouldn't have to suffer through this pharma onslaught.

RFK Jr wants to ban them. We are one of two countries that allows it. The other (New Zealand) is much more regulated.

They should be limited to medical magazines.

Pharma ads are nothing more than leverage to keep the news media from running stories against their industry.

Basically, they pay the network so well that nothing negative is ever broadcasted about them. Some sourses claim that 80% of TV ad revenue comes from big pharma.

Before you start, I know.....1st Amendment concerns.
So explain how it's OK to ban certain adds like tobacco products but Big Pharma is a 1A poster child?

Reading this might cause:

Spontaneous Bowel evacuation, breast enlargement in men, swollen uvula, facial boils, unknown tongue fungus, sudden debilitating chronic headache, loss of eyesight, sudden aversion to politicians, and impacted bowl syndrome!

Perhaps Tobacco advertisements shouldn't be banned either? I pose this question as someone who grew up hating smoking and someone who has never smoked.

 

[JGalt]

From all forms of TV! If they can ban tobacco adds from TV, we shouldn't have to suffer through this pharma onslaught.

RFK Jr wants to ban them. We are one of two countries that allows it. The other (New Zealand) is much more regulated.

They should be limited to medical magazines.

Pharma ads are nothing more than leverage to keep the news media from running stories against their industry.

Basically, they pay the network so well that nothing negative is ever broadcasted about them. Some sourses claim that 80% of TV ad revenue comes from big pharma.

Before you start, I know.....1st Amendment concerns.
So explain how it's OK to ban certain adds like tobacco products but Big Pharma is a 1A poster child?

Reading this might cause:

Spontaneous Bowel evacuation, breast enlargement in men, swollen uvula, facial boils, unknown tongue fungus, sudden debilitating chronic headache, loss of eyesight, sudden aversion to politicians, and impacted bowl syndrome!

If anything, they should be banned because of the stupid boomer music they use in the ads.

I didn't like any of those songs then and like them even less now.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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Yes! Ban them!

First time I saw a pHARMa ad on TV, I thought it was an obscene joke.


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[rightwinger]

If anything, they should be banned because of the stupid boomer music they use in the ads.

I didn't like any of those songs then and like them even less now.

Boomers had the best music

 

[Oddball]

Though I am a laissez-faire guy, the ad revenue has been used to surreptitiously shape content...This is the essence of anti-trust.

Reluctantly, I say....

 

[1srelluc]

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Yes! Ban them!

First time I saw a pHARMa ad on TV, I thought it was an obscene joke.


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OTC meds have always been allowed so watch Big Pharma (if they have not done so already) buy out the OTC companies.

That and the commercials were better.



Even the parodies of the commercials were better.

 

[JoeMoma]

I would like for the Aids/HIV Medication add to be banned. I don't want to watch 2 dudes smooch each other.

 

[JGalt]

Boomers had the best music

Most of it sucked and sucks even worse when they change the words and use it in a commercial.

Technically I'm a "boomer" by birth, but I hate that connotation. Boomers are the most useless generation this country ever spawned, so I self-identify with my parent's and grandparent's generations.

 

[rightwinger]

Most of it sucked and sucks even worse when they change the words and use it in a commercial.

Boomer music is timeless

Still going strong after 50 years

 

[JGalt]

Boomer music is timeless

Still going strong after 50 years

It's crap. Quit talking about your generation, or I'll try to put you down.

Hope you die before you get old. Yeah, talkin' 'bout your generation.

 

[Polishprince]

I never understood the purpose of those ads

Only a doctor can prescribe those drugs and Big Pharm is already paying them off.

From my experience, any drug that has an ad on TV is very expensive

The purpose of the ads is to get patients and doctors aware of new innovations being cooked up in the labs of Eli Lilly.

The alternate , more traditional way, of pushing pills is to send pharm reps to doctors offices, give them free samples, buy them lunch, whatever.

How would you suggest pharm outfits let doctors know that there are new, often better , treatments for obesity or whatever?

 

[Oddball]

OTC meds have always been allowed so watch Big Pharma (if they have not done so already) buy out the OTC companies.

That and the commercials were better.



Even the parodies of the commercials were better.

 

[Hellokitty]

From all forms of TV! If they can ban tobacco adds from TV, we shouldn't have to suffer through this pharma onslaught.

RFK Jr wants to ban them. We are one of two countries that allows it. The other (New Zealand) is much more regulated.

They should be limited to medical magazines.

Pharma ads are nothing more than leverage to keep the news media from running stories against their industry.

Basically, they pay the network so well that nothing negative is ever broadcasted about them. Some sourses claim that 80% of TV ad revenue comes from big pharma.

Before you start, I know.....1st Amendment concerns.
So explain how it's OK to ban certain adds like tobacco products but Big Pharma is a 1A poster child?

Reading this might cause:

Spontaneous Bowel evacuation, breast enlargement in men, swollen uvula, facial boils, unknown tongue fungus, sudden debilitating chronic headache, loss of eyesight, sudden aversion to politicians, and impacted bowl syndrome!

I honestly never made this connection to how BP uses ad revenue. I know on Fox news when Ozempic was 1st being use main stream for weight loss all the medical pundits were against it and talked about the dangers of it being widely prescribed for weight loss. Then it seems 1 day they all flip and Ozempic was safe and not only for weight loss but a host of other things.

 

[Zincwarrior]

From all forms of TV! If they can ban tobacco adds from TV, we shouldn't have to suffer through this pharma onslaught.

RFK Jr wants to ban them. We are one of two countries that allows it. The other (New Zealand) is much more regulated.

They should be limited to medical magazines.

Pharma ads are nothing more than leverage to keep the news media from running stories against their industry.

Basically, they pay the network so well that nothing negative is ever broadcasted about them. Some sourses claim that 80% of TV ad revenue comes from big pharma.

Before you start, I know.....1st Amendment concerns.
So explain how it's OK to ban certain adds like tobacco products but Big Pharma is a 1A poster child?

Reading this might cause:

Spontaneous Bowel evacuation, breast enlargement in men, swollen uvula, facial boils, unknown tongue fungus, sudden debilitating chronic headache, loss of eyesight, sudden aversion to politicians, and impacted bowl syndrome!

I agree actually.

 

[DakotaKai_fan20]

I would like for the Aids/HIV Medication add to be banned. I don't want to watch 2 dudes smooch each other.

Gross. Add to that all the Viagra and similar ads. Sexual content doesn't belong on TV.

 

[DakotaKai_fan20]

Most of it sucked and sucks even worse when they change the words and use it in a commercial.

I hated how they messed this song up. It is too bad that they messed up a good song.

 

[JGalt]

Gross. Add to that all the Viagra and similar ads. Sexual content doesn't belong on TV.

The AIDS drugs ads are the worst. The last thing I want to see when I turn on the TV are a bunch of faggots kissing.