Don’tcha just love the TV ads for prescription pharmaceuticals (which seem to be the only advertisers on nightly national network news programs these days), that are advertising a product that you can’t even go out and buy without seeing a doctor first? About three-quarters of each ad consists of warnings about side effects.
[Soft-focus video of attractive, scantily-clad woman dancing through a meadow filled with flowers and songbirds]: “Hate your yellowed toenails? Ask your doctor about Xerziitin. May cause hair loss, headaches, giant tumors, uncontrollable tremors, tennis elbow, liver failure, some rare brain disease, death, PMS in men. and a temporary darkening of the stool. Take only as directed.”
Don’tcha just love the TV ads for prescription pharmaceuticals (which seem to be the only advertisers on nightly national network news programs these days), that are advertising a product that you can’t even go out and buy without seeing a doctor first? About three-quarters of each ad consists of warnings about side effects.
[Soft-focus video of attractive, scantily-clad woman dancing through a meadow filled with flowers and songbirds]: “Hate your yellowed toenails? Ask your doctor about Xerziitin. May cause hair loss, headaches, giant tumors, uncontrollable tremors, tennis elbow, liver failure, some rare brain disease, death, PMS in men. and a temporary darkening of the stool. Take only as directed.”