What do you think about the presence of drug advertisements on television?

Answer 1

I see no problem with it.

Answer 2

I like the little dramas they do when they are trying to sell their drugs to the consumer. First of all that must mean that the drug has some shortcomings or they would be able to distribute through doctors looking for medication to treat actual symptoms. By putting in TV it gives them access to people who will then believe that they need that drug or have the malady. But I do love how they gloss over the possible side effects and there is one in which some great looking women are sitting around at a party and one says she is a doctor and she runs through the side effects in such a manner that they do not sound bad at all. Lets not forget too that we are looking at high cost advertising spots that add to the cost of drugs. I bet I have seen the one for Lunestra sleeping pills a thousands times...whats up with that?

Answer 3

I think that it sends an absolute major mixed message to the younger people about drugs in general----
On the one hand you are telling these kids---just say No ---and expounding the hardline negatives about drug use---and then in a solid wall of advertisement on the tube you are showing them a drug to take care of absolutely Everything and Anything that is wrong with you !!!! What's up with that ?? Is there any wonder why so many people think that Whatever the problem---even if you are Bored--- that drugs are the way to achieve some instant answer ???

The biggest "drug pushers" in America are the ones that are writing and filling the prescriptions !!!!

Answer 4

The USA is one of the few countries that allow prescription medication to be advertised. I think it's alright - it does help educate the general population about drugs and diseases. And the bottom line is your doctor has to prescribe the stuff - it's not OTC.

THe FDA does have a tough approval program all drugs have to go through before they get to market. The clinical trials are pretty extensive. But of course that didn't stop Merck from putting Vioxx out there.

So I guess the educational effect is why I don't object to it. But I'm not wild about it...

Answer 5

I think that it is a great way for pharmaceuticals to make a whole lot of money, hypochondriacs to find a cure for all that bothers them, doctors to keep their waiting rooms full, teachers to keep their students in line and sedate. On the down side though, particularly with the anti-depressants that advertise, it only helps to create more brain dead zombies. Some people really do need these medications, some are just suffering a depression that will end. I think the overmedication of America and the world will be the downfall of us all; maybe that is the reason behind it all. Don't worry, don't pine, don't get upset or moody, just take it as it comes and be a passive drone.

Answer 6

I find those "male enhancement" commercials embarrassing... no matter if you are a man or a woman. I was at a bar with a few friends during a football game and one of those commercials came on about 4 people took a bathroom brake.... I think they just where embarrasses to see the commercial. twenty minutes later the same commercial came on and I asked "the question" everybody said.... it makes them UN comfortable.... the same thing happened with the tampon commercial of a woman and a dress that flairs wide open as she twirls..... the men said they felt that they where in a competition or something .....the conversation of commercials ended once the game came back on. I guess I did a mini public study and the answer is "get rid of them"

Answer 7

Pharmeceutical ads are worse than liquor ads, and it's not just because their products are potentially more lethal.

The sales pitcher are harder, the claims more fanciful, and the disclaimers about the danger of their product half as loud as are alcohol's.

If an ad for a whisky was made the way ads are for rogaine, the ad would be barred from television.


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Answer 8

they should be banned and also banned from my emails