So one channel is advertising

[malaise]

Viagra single packs. I switch - another is advertising Chantix. This is followed by an ad from the lawyers suing the makers of Invokana which said station advertised earlier.

The corporate media is one big Marketing firm for big pharma - it's for profit business with not one iota of responsibility

[metroins]

1. Remember, Big pharma saves lives as well.

Many lives are saved due to these drugs.

There's tons of responsibility and checks/balances via FDA. These drugs go through years of research and testing.

[floriduck]

4. Wouldn't it be nice to have a legitimately functioning FDA?!

[metroins]

5. Love Hate relationship

Big Pharma cured my mom's cancer and is hopefully going to cure my father in laws. They also are helping to keep my one kidney healthy.

I find it difficult to hate the FDA or pharma.

[floriduck]

24. I am stage 4 renal patient due to kidney failure resulting from Remicade infusion. We have our own

reasons for our perspectives on the Big Pharma.

[REP]

26. Stage 3 from FSGS

No matter how you get there though it sucks

[Person 2713]

6. They do? Who does the testing?

[metroins]

7. Please clarify

Research labs do testing, then they're typically invested in or bought by mrk/az/bms/g and clinical trials begin. Those trials are regulated by the FDA and private organizations.

So what do you mean by your post?

[malaise]

15. You don't have a problem with a channel taking ads for a drug

and at the same time taking ads from the lawyers suing the pharma company because of the copious side effects?

[metroins]

18. No

I don't have a problem with a strip club next to a church either.

[Albertoo]

19. +++ Good to see it's not all about kids' tantrums here

[dflprincess]

2. I have to admit that Chantix worked like a charm for me

but I learned about it from my cousin who is a nurse, not a commercial (I tend to tune those out).

[malaise]

16. Good for you

[Albertoo]

20. Basically, ads are just information. When it's not, most of the time, it backfires

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. The USA is one of only two countries...

where direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs is legal (the other is New Zealand). It's banned everywhere else.

[malaise]

17. Yes indeed

You got that right

[Gabi Hayes]

8. when is this going to happen:

sure hope I live to see the day

[Gabi Hayes]

9. OK, I have to do this....every so often I crank the sh** outta this as I leave the

parking lot of the school at which I work.

met with uniform approbation by staff and students alike

[lpbk2713]

10. Thanks

I enjoyed that.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. from best of war....what an album

more than welcome

and since you didn't axe, one more:

[lpbk2713]

12. Thanks again ... I'll be back in a while.

Now I'm in the mood for some Carlos Santana.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. yes yes....dunno which santana you like, but have you heard this:

this may be my favorite electric Santana

is that you, waiting for the sunshine?

then, of course, there's always this, for JC, not jesus

which leads to this

if you liked porkpie, check the entire album: My Goal's Beyond. the other players are some of the finest musicians of an era

[malaise]

14. Nice

[hobbit709]

21. According to the commercials

Everyone in America:
1. Can't get it up
2. Has difficulties with their peeing
3. Has psoriasis
4. Needs even more pills to deal with their depression(probably caused by 1, 2 & 3)

[malaise]

23. You forgot

and has Type 2 diabetes

[dflprincess]

25. I've noticed the latest trend in Viagra ads

is to have a very attractive woman (maybe 30s or very early 40s) do all the talking and be the focus of the camera.

Just once I'd like to see a woman in her 60s telling her husband to take the damn pill. (Though I imagine the ad agency wouldn't see that as an incentive for men to "talk to their doctors".)

[Albertoo]

22. I worked in advertising long enough to know deceptive ads nearly always backfire

When they don't, they just are ineffective. Money very poorly spent.

Advertising only works if the product is sound.

[Gabi Hayes]

27. at the inception:

[Albertoo]

28. Oh, look: a cartoon!!

Gee, you convinced me.

[Gabi Hayes]

29. of what?

[Albertoo]

30. I don't know. That was my point.

[MaggieD]

31. Mine is filled with food and restaurant ads

Or home reno/hardware stuff.

I think it might be the channels you are watching.