The push against TV drug ads threatens to dent the revenues of pharmaceutical companies, which can make back in sales five times as much as they spend on commercials, according to some analysts. It could also create uncertainty for major television networks, which bring in substantial revenue from pharmaceutical advertisers trying to reach older viewers, who tend to take more medications.
And of course this is bullshit since....aren't hard liquor & smoking ads banned? We can do that but not the same for pharma?
I'm guessing one of the myriad reasons for this is that unlike the others, the very premise of seeing a doctor has been flipped to the point that doctors really ARE our drug dealers since now we've been trained to specifically ASK them for a medication we saw in a tv ad. Which is fucked up for many reasons, the most recent of which is now RFK Jr. starts sounding like the reasonable voice in the room, which is terrifying.
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