Pharmaceutical industrial complex rule

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American pharmaceutical ads are weird. I guess Iā€™m just not free enough to understand them?

Having seen recent statistics -

*too free

Ftfy

Canada is a bit on the weird side too. For us companies can either advertise what their drug does, or advertise their name, but not both.

What? How does that work? Have I just never noticed because we get so many American ads?

This is the best one. Larry the Cable Guy!

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I mean, here (in Germany) we have ads for meds too, but only for freely available stuff that you can reasonably self-medicate. Like ibuprofen and stuff

You mean the ads with the old people who, suddenly, are able to cycle again?

Gendered multi vitamin ads every time

*watching sport stream from American tv channel *

Hmm, this psoriasis drug seems quite effective! Maybe I should ask my doctor about it!

Warnings at the end of the ad: "do not take if you have, have had, or ever will have the sniffles, as the deaths of yourself and everyone you've ever loved will result"

Nah, I think I'll pass..

Real one:

"If you have mild to moderate rheumatoid arthritis, VIOXX may be able to treat your pain. Ask your doctor about VIOXX, he has all the facts about whether it's right for you."

"Okay so yes, 140,000 people got severe heart disease and a bunch of them died of heart attacks, but in our defense, the only reason we deliberately mislead your doctor about the safety of VIOXX was so we could make a shitload of money".

The rest of the world: Advertise drugs to doctors
America: Advertise drugs to people

...Aaaand then put them in prison for obtaining any similar molecule.