Most TV Drug Ads Minimize Information About Side Effects

re: Most TV Drug Ads Minimize Information About Side Effects

PepperR23 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:52:03 GMT

I now press the mute button whenever a drug commercial is aired or I change the station. However, the mute button is more effective as whenever I change the station there is yet another drug commercial to be found. It is particularly disheartening when there are so many ED commercials aired during the family hour.

re: Most TV Drug Ads Minimize Information About Side Effects

mmc88121 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:59:23 GMT

And even when the side effects are presented in text in the advertisement it goes to quickly for many people to read. My family runs when they see or hear a pharmaceutical commercial come over the airwaves, as they know I will rip it to pieces.

Mary

re: Most TV Drug Ads Minimize Information About Side Effects

BeyondOrganic — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:55:38 GMT

That's for sure! Also, when they do voice some of the side effects, they're spoken in such a way as to make the listener think they are no big deal and won't happen to "you".

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Russ Bianchi — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:31:12 GMT

"And remember to ask your Doctor if _ _ _ _ _ _ (R) is right for you?"

If you have to ask this question, clearly you did not get the message that the vast majority of these hyped pharmaceutical brands are costly, unnecessary, dangerous, and deadly.