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Advertising is all about creating a demand for a product.
I mean, why else have Lady Gaga do an ad for a pharmaceutical company?
More frightening, pill companies offer incentives to doctors to prescribe expensive meds, when they are not necessarily needed, or a cheaper yet equally effective drug is available.
Ah, if I were to see an ad featuring "Lady Gaga" I would run away screaming.
But those incentives. To my sensibilities, that is corruption. The "system" is flawed and doctors who do that are compromised. That is why I don't do everything my doctor says. I question her recommendations to make sure she has a solid basis for the recommendation. Sometimes she does.
I have gotten to the point where I use my cloud DVR on every show I watch, even "live" sports, so I can skip the ads. And for streaming channels I am happy to pay extra not to see any ads.
But what is sad, is that so many people seem to be senselessly influenced by ads. For me a turn off. The more offensive/aggressive the ad the more determined I am not to buy the product or service.
I do. Can't recall any drug big pharma advertising has ever pushed me into asking a doctor for. I don't have any interest in the vast majority of drugs being advertised. Sure, very occasionally I'll use some OTC pain, allergy, or cough reliever but that's about it. I take 2 prescriptions to help manage the effects of SVT, but no advertising was responsible for that. A cardiologist was. They do what they're supposed to and that's what matters.
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I do. Can't recall any drug big pharma advertising has ever pushed me into asking a doctor for. I don't have any interest in the vast majority of drugs being advertised. Sure, very occasionally I'll use some OTC pain, allergy, or cough reliever but that's about it. I take 2 prescriptions to help manage the effects of SVT, but no advertising was responsible for that. A cardiologist was. They do what they're supposed to and that's what matters.
Same here. I take two medications to control my heart rate/A-fib, which also double as blood pressure control, along with two more meds for blood pressure. My meds are all Tier 1 generic forms that have been around for eons, the only brand name drug ( for which I saw resurrected ads on streaming TV) I take is Eliquis, and I doubt seriously my cardiologist was influenced by TV ads to prescribe that, or any of the other drugs.
Looks to me as though many of those advertised meds are for mental/psychological issues, depression, or autoimmune conditions that I don't have, thank goodness.
Same here. I take two medications to control my heart rate/A-fib, which also double as blood pressure control, along with two more meds for blood pressure. My meds are all Tier 1 generic forms that have been around for eons, the only brand name drug ( for which I saw resurrected ads on streaming TV) I take is Eliquis, and I doubt seriously my cardiologist was influenced by TV ads to prescribe that, or any of the other drugs.
Looks to me as though many of those advertised meds are for mental/psychological issues, depression, or autoimmune conditions that I don't have, thank goodness.
Don't forget insomnia, diabetes, asthma/COPD, statins, and GI problems...up the wazoo ad nauseum (yeah, that was intentional ).
Just heard on the news the other day that many of those generic blue pill ads for Viagara selling for $2.00 each are from companies out of the USA and are fake pills. So buyer/user beware.
Don't forget insomnia, diabetes, asthma/COPD, statins, and GI problems...up the wazoo ad nauseum (yeah, that was intentional ).
LOL, that's true. I guess I just don't pay enough attention to the ads to get what the meds are for all the time. Though who could miss the O-O-O-Ozempic commercials and the other diabetic meds, the "Go Your Own Way"COPD ( I forget the name, haha, remember the ad, forget the drug), the "Control is Everything to Me"..... Skyrizi(???),sung as the lady with Crohn's disease ziplines across the Grand Canyon ( not really but those ads tend to be sensational).
And for nausea? Well, I can't think of an ad I've seen for Zofran or other prescription drug for that. But there's always the Pepto Bismol characters " Heartburn, Indigestion, and Diarrhea ( maybe somebody else?), dancing around in their bismuth pink wetsuits singing about the miracles of this OTC med in relieving these problems.
Just heard on the news the other day that many of those generic blue pill ads for Viagara selling for $2.00 each are from companies out of the USA and are fake pills. So buyer/user beware.
Maybe the placebo affect where the user THINKs he's taking Viagra will help him to rise to the occasion.
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