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Re:I changed my mind about advertising by Retric on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:00PM (#30289073)
Advertising a product that does X/Y/Z but also causes cancer without mentioning the cancer means people want a different product that isn’t being sold.

Currently (edit:some) prescription drugs are being advertised with mentions of side effects like death, but what’s being treated isn’t mentioned. That’s clearly not advertising the actual product being sold either, yet it’s also effective.

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Re:I changed my mind about advertising by savingsPossible on Thursday February 10, 2022 @12:54PM (#30289966)
Care to elaborate?

Are pills being sold by pretty ads that are required to tell people about risks AND required not to tell about what the pill is for?

AND those ads WORK?

Wow

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Re:I changed my mind about advertising by Retric on Thursday February 10, 2022 @01:02PM (#30290080)
They are allowed to tell you want the pill is for, but I have seen a few commercials where I had no idea what the pill was trying to treat.
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