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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 09:27 AM
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39. yes, truly disgusting
they have a cow over janet's nipplegate, but then subject little kids to the words:

"side effects include ERECTIONS lasting longer than 4 hours..."

Mommy WHAT's an ERECTION???
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  -Erective disfunction commercials: Last straw for big Pharma Hamlette  Mar-28-04 07:42 PM   #0 
  - Actually...  laylah   Mar-28-04 07:44 PM   #1 
  - that R&D expense is subsidized by our tax dollars  el_gato   Mar-29-04 09:18 AM   #35 
  - Certainly were a lot on Faux NewsHour this Am  lunabush   Mar-28-04 07:45 PM   #2 
  - Don't buy their R&D line  xray s   Mar-28-04 07:46 PM   #3 
  - That needs to be repeated! R&D IS BULL!  Kanary   Mar-28-04 11:08 PM   #20 
  - How about a reference for that?  blurp   Mar-29-04 05:39 AM   #25 
     - Drug companies account for only about half of R&D expenditures  PA Democrat   Mar-29-04 08:01 AM   #27 
  - It comes in all kinds of forms.  Another Bill C.   Mar-28-04 07:47 PM   #4 
  - Have trouble relating, being female and all, but am worried about the  havocmom   Mar-28-04 07:49 PM   #5 
  - You just said the key word: afraid. Viagra commercials = fear.  Lars39   Mar-28-04 07:59 PM   #9 
  - Dunno, half these ads so vague ..  mulethree   Mar-28-04 07:50 PM   #6 
  - if you're watching the commercials, you are doomed  frank frankly   Mar-28-04 07:50 PM   #7 
  - Visions of the Woody Allen movie "Sleeper"  havocmom   Mar-28-04 08:01 PM   #11 
  - Maybe big profits from dick-aids are plowed back into real medical researc  ex_jew   Mar-28-04 07:56 PM   #8 
  - Yeah. Medical research for more "dick-aids"....  IrateCitizen   Mar-29-04 09:06 AM   #32 
  - I hate big pharma and all their commercials BUT that one  Safi   Mar-28-04 08:00 PM   #10 
  - My favorite caveat of the erectile dysfunction commercials:  DemoTex   Mar-28-04 08:01 PM   #12 
  - ya beat me too it...  havocmom   Mar-28-04 08:04 PM   #13 
  - I laugh my ass off every-time I hear  Piperay   Mar-29-04 03:58 AM   #23 
  - "Help, I've Gotten Up, And It Won't Fall Down!"  WillyT   Mar-29-04 06:41 AM   #26 
  - I remember 4-hour erections being normal...  IrateCitizen   Mar-29-04 09:07 AM   #33 
  - And just what is the doctor gonna do?  BiggJawn   Mar-29-04 09:24 AM   #38 
  - Perhaps they want American men to get "koro."  barbaraann   Mar-28-04 08:12 PM   #14 
  - Isn't that why Hemmingway killed himself?  BiggJawn   Mar-29-04 09:21 AM   #36 
  - personally, I think that the marketing and advertising of drugs . . .  OneBlueSky   Mar-28-04 10:11 PM   #15 
  - I ABSOLUTELY AGREE  Skittles   Mar-28-04 10:19 PM   #16 
  - America is the exception to allowing this type of advertising  PA Democrat   Mar-29-04 08:07 AM   #28 
  - If I see one more  shekina   Mar-28-04 10:20 PM   #17 
  - Why are they marketing prescription drugs to consumers?  Nobody   Mar-28-04 10:38 PM   #18 
  - I saw an article that said marketing accounts for 20% of drug costs  chair094   Mar-28-04 10:52 PM   #19 
  - I doubt the drug prices would fall by the same amount - BUT  FlaGranny   Mar-29-04 08:59 AM   #30 
     - Well, in an IDEAL world the curtailment of drug marketing  chair094   Mar-29-04 11:44 AM   #42 
  - Wonder if this is one issue where right and left...  DeepModem Mom   Mar-29-04 03:23 AM   #21 
  - Oh, the hypocrisy of it all...  chikin   Mar-29-04 08:33 AM   #29 
     - Welcome, chikin!  DeepModem Mom   Mar-29-04 09:15 AM   #34 
     - Hi chikin!!  newyawker99   Mar-29-04 01:05 PM   #43 
  - If an impotence cure can't rely on word of mouth...  JVS   Mar-29-04 03:31 AM   #22 
  - first, give me some valium.  xchrom   Mar-29-04 05:16 AM   #24 
  - I have noticed a bunch of new ads recently  FlaGranny   Mar-29-04 09:04 AM   #31 
  - Seems the big drug companies are getting into supplements  havocmom   Mar-29-04 09:38 AM   #41 
  - The Pharm Cos. are just responding to the times.  Touchdown   Mar-29-04 09:23 AM   #37 
  - yes, truly disgusting  crozet4clark   Mar-29-04 09:27 AM   #39 
  - OK, I've made a break through on this one!  havocmom   Mar-29-04 09:34 AM   #40 
 

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