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A Law to Ban Direct to Consumer Advertising by Pharmaceutical Companies

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  • Apr 9th, 2019
    Someone from Melville, NY writes:
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    It’s time to ban these ads on tv all night long
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  • Mar 18th, 2019
    Someone from Procious, WV writes:
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    Stop the ads!! Then maybe some accurate reporting by the media could be reported about the dangers of pharmaceuticals & vaccines!
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  • Mar 17th, 2019
    Chastity M. from Clover, SC signed.
  • Feb 26th, 2019
    Stephanie C. from Phoenix, AZ writes:
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    We want the adds and lies to stop! And never to be forced to Take A vaccine!
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  • Feb 24th, 2019
    Someone from Ovett, MS writes:
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    Unethical
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  • Feb 24th, 2019
    Someone from Ovett, MS writes:
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    Unethical
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  • Feb 13th, 2019
    Someone from Tarzana, CA writes:
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    This bombardment of legal drug pushing on television has to stop. Let people and doctors work together privately without this hammering and haranguing from these pharmaceutical companies. They are skirting on practicing medicine without a license. It's time to push back and stop them.
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  • Dec 11th, 2018
    Carol M. from Yorba Linda, CA writes:
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    Its unethical on so many levels for Pharmaceutical companies to advertise on radio, television, cable TV, and Internet. So many of the ads are misleading, using fear tactics, and at times downright false advertising. It takes the doctor and patient out the conversation and ultimate decision for what is best for the patient. There should be zero advertising about any medication or biologics, that includes vaccines.
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  • Jul 24th, 2018
    gen a. from Redondo Beach, CA writes:
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    ban drugs and its own ads. go back to natural culture by ingesting something natural. i’m still on drugs since i was an adolescent but now i’m an adult. just stop drugging us!
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  • Jun 27th, 2018
    Someone from Sequim, WA writes:
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    This bombardment of legal drug pushing on television has to stop. Some of these drugs have the most horrendous potential side effects. Let people and doctors work together privately without this hammering and haranguing from these pharmaceutical companies. They are skirting on practicing medicine without a license. And the same goes toward vaccines push push push. It's time to push back and stop them.
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  • Apr 9th, 2018
    C K. from Council Bluffs, IA writes:
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    I support this ban wholeheartedly.
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  • Jan 14th, 2018
    Someone from Wenatchee, WA signed.
  • Jan 11th, 2018
    Someone from Westerville, OH signed.
  • Jan 9th, 2018
    Someone from Tidewater, OR writes:
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    I have a feeling that we need this law but I like to see all sides of the issue. Is either the "evidence" of the CDC cover up or the report about it available to the public?
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  • Jan 8th, 2018
    Someone from Malad City, ID signed.
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    Vanessa H. from Mount Vernon, KY signed.
  • Jan 8th, 2018
    suzanne j. from Pottstown, PA signed.
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    Katrina B. from Cheyenne, WY signed.
  • Jan 8th, 2018
    suzanne j. from Pottstown, PA writes:
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    Stop putting our children at risk over your 'Greed First' policy. If you can't put safety first and stop the drug and unsafe vaccine pushing, close your shop! Advertising is for business not health care!!!
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  • Jan 8th, 2018
    Alisa L. from Santa Clara, CA signed.
  • Jan 8th, 2018
    Someone from Sebastian, FL writes:
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    Money has become more important than our childrens' lives. As parents and grandparents we must take back our right to say no and have these poisons not being pushed in our faces without mention of real risk. It is scandalous. CONGRESS MUST CALL THE CDC WHISTLEBLOWER TO TESTIFY.
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  • Jan 8th, 2018
    Nichole G. from Salt Lake City, UT writes:
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    Your gross displays of power and greed at the cost of millions of lives needs to end. It will end. We are on to you.
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  • Jan 8th, 2018
    Sarah S. from Englewood, OH writes:
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    Protect and defend U.S. citizens from misleading and potentially harmful advertising of pharmaceuticals.
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  • Jan 8th, 2018
    Emily S. from Wexford, PA signed.
  • Jan 8th, 2018
    Someone from Mission, KS writes:
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    I'm on Social Security Disability benefits now. My disability was a DIRECT RESULT of pharmaceutical medications. Unfortunately the two year statute ran out in my state before I could be compensated for my injuries. Now the SSDI system and my spouse have to pay do support me, even though I was a productive member of society up to the point that pharmaceutical products deprived me of my ability to work. We need more research and less manipulation, marketing and bias. Corporate profits should not be privileged over consumer safety.
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  • Dec 25th, 2017
    Nicole from Vail, AZ signed.
  • Dec 25th, 2017
    Christine K. from Henderson, NV signed.
  • Nov 26th, 2017
    Steve D. from Los Angeles, CA writes:
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    The pharmaceutical industry's ability to engage in direct to consumer advertising makes news outlets beholden to their influence. As a result the public isn't going to get the full story regarding pharmaceutical hazards. The law that allows this is compromising the public's health and safety by evidence of resulting injuries manifesting in various forms. Accordingly, a law banning DTC Marketing of pharmaceutical products is necessary immediately.
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  • Nov 25th, 2017
    bryon t. from Ellensburg, WA signed.
  • Nov 24th, 2017
    Alexis K. from Columbia, MO writes:
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    If pharmaceutical companies are not restricted from DTC advertising I believe this "hush money" will bring down MSM as well as many other organizations and agencies that have been corrupted by it.
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  • Nov 20th, 2017
    Gina H. from Flint, TX signed.
  • Nov 19th, 2017
    Courtney G. from Atlanta, GA signed.
  • Oct 18th, 2017
    Someone from Northfield, NJ writes:
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    these ads are so annoying they make me anxious.
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  • Oct 7th, 2017
    Bernadette V. from Sharon Springs, NY signed.
  • Sep 29th, 2017
    SEAN A. from San Francisco, CA signed.
  • Sep 29th, 2017
    Jessica K. from Portsmouth, NH writes:
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    For the first time in four years, I watched a television while waiting in the Urgent Care room. There were at least four commercials for prescription drugs that were being marketed to the public to relieve their symptoms. Then, the commercial went on to list the side effects that came with each drug. I was amazed and angry that in the United States the best we can do is to overlook the root of any illness or disease to prescribe drugs that only benefit the pharmaceutical companies. Are the health care programs so blind and brainwashed that public ethics and best interest is being traded for dollars?
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  • Sep 26th, 2017
    Kelsey E. from Suffolk, VA signed.
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    Someone from Athens, GA signed.
  • Sep 10th, 2017
    Jordan B. from New York, NY writes:
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    Anything requiring a prescription should not be advertised on TV - it is predatory.
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  • Aug 18th, 2017
    Someone from Sarasota, FL writes:
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    Not only does the pharmaceutical industry buy off the media with their advertising dollars, but they buy off the medical community with financial incentives for over-prescribing pharmaceuticals and vaccines, and buy off the politicians with campaign contributions. Enough already! Our healthcare system has the poorest outcome in the developed world.
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