https://secure.consumersunion.org/si...8982au1.app45a

Tell the FDA what you think about drug ads.
Goal: 50,000 signatures!

Fed up with TV ads that sell you the “good news” about prescription drugs but gloss over the shortcomings? Do these drugs actually work? And how common are those side effects?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon decide whether these TV ads should include a toll-free number and web address where you can report side effects or other problems. The drug companies don't like this idea. They don’t want their ads used to help identify potential problems with their products.

But if we have to watch these endless ads, we should at least be able to easily report to the FDA how these medicines really work! Add your name to the FDA petition below.

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I know I sure am especially with the ads for RLS and Requip or Mirapex! We know the side-effects of these medications, but these are barely mentioned at the end of the advertisement, and usually at a point when people have glazed over from listening to the babble. I would love to see all these ads pulled from TV, but I doubt that would happen! At least this is a start.

John

Thank you......and those dreamy eyed viagra et al commercials make me want to puke.

paula

oh dear...you had to mention that paula.
now i have elvis singing VIVA VIAGRA stuck in my brain. that one is worse than the dreamy eyed ones.

yep john...i cringe at the rsl drug pushing ones.

I was just thinking last night if I see that commercial for Cialis one more time I am going to puke ( or is that puque?) Paula ..you took the words right out of my mouth. CNN is terrible for it. Does watching too much news cause men to suffer from E.D.? But don't you love the one with the baby who is busy trading stock on his computer...

You had to remind me of the E.D. ads! Now I've got the Viagra song in my head.

This type of advertising never took place before, and seemed to appear around the same time as the shady lawyers ads. It makes me wonder if they go hand-in-hand, and if there's a petition around to get them removed from the TV as well.

John