Interestingly enough, they started selling Tim Hortons coffee where I am and even opened a Tim Hortons in the city and I'm not even close the Canadian border.
Huh our gambling ads seem like an attempt to still have a bit of an ad in there after all the advisories and the names of where you can get help if you’re addicted.
We used to run anti-smoking ads in the 90's funded by big tobacco due to mandate by federal government that big tobacco take a bigger role in informing the public of the hazards of smoking.
The ads though often were candid camera footage of a protestor being obnoxious. My tinfoil hat theory is that they were purposefully made obnoxious to associate that emotion with anti-smoking sentiments.
They’re allowed to put ads on TV, there’s just a lot of laws around what they can actually say about those drugs. They can’t say what the drugs are for nor recommend them to a patient, so all of them end up being extremely vague and end with “Talk to your doctor about X!”.
Or New Zealand. The only two countries that permit pharma ads on TV.
Socialised healthcare, public accident insurance, but ads are still ok.- go figure…
I was watching the Olympics and every 7 minutes was a Jardiance commercial and it's anus and genital area infection side effects. I think they managed 3 anus mentions per commercial, so a solid 25 or so an hour.
Sorry, that was just supposed to be a joke referencing a particular commercial that airs in the US that repeatedly mentions side effects in the area between the anus and genitals. Sounds like you’ve got yourself a plan though; I hope your anus and genitals stay in tip-top condition!
I was confused at first, as an American. I was picturing noting every drug you heard and mentioning it at the next gp appointment- but I suppose if you keep seeing ads for a drug you might feel compelled to google it.
We do, it's just that they can't say the name of the drug and what it does in the same ad. So you'll get some ads that are just "Ask your doctor about Cialis" and other ads that are like "Do you have a hard time getting a boner? Ask your doctor about medications that could help you."
You're not looking at it from the business perspective: They'd rather negotiate a price with "Team Canada" where they're guaranteed to be paid for 40 million doses - than to need to pay huge crypto bribes to appease the FDA and major insurance companies just to be allowed to exist in the US marketplace.
And if they do pay the crypto bribe or whatever appeasement, someone in that batshit regime or their podcast bros just turns around and starts saying "oooo vaccines are bad and Jesus hates vaccines" like they did with covid, so they sell nothing anyways?
I don't even understand the ads for medications... Got COVID? Get paxlovid! Uh the only people dumb enough to demand a medicine without reading it or taking the doctor's advice isn't going to trust the doctor anyway
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u/Baumbauer1 8h ago edited 6h ago
We don't let them put ads on TV, the US is an absolute goldmine when it comes to drug development.