U.S. and New Zealand only countries that advertise pharmaceuticals.

[odanny]

So all of these advertisements, including the dancing fat woman trying to sell you a drug for overeating, is only allowed in 0.01% of the world's countries. All of this advertising, over a billion dollars a month, usually geared to daytime and news programs, is not to be suffered almost everywhere else.

The for profit healthcare system is pumping you full of drugs, many you may not need, and it becomes habit forming (not just the drugs, the doctors doing it)

Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising: Therapeutic or Toxic?

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[The Irish Ram]

We have commercials that tell us to tell our doctors what we need.
Talk to your doctor today...

It's a shame they don't use that money for research, then again, why would a drug company not want to cure cancer...