Reply #14: Thanks for the info!

[No Exit]

We did without TV prescription drug ads for most of my lifetime, and we can do without them again.

Are you aware that in certain states, lawyers who advertise are targetted by their state bar association, and are harassed? It's true. I don't really care whether lawyers are allowed to advertise or not, but it seems to me that if many lawyers are penalized for advertising, then we shouldn't give a pass to pharmaceutical companies which advertise potentially dangerous drugs. Plus there's the obvious hypocrisy shown in the frequent remarks by republicans about how advertising lawyers are "cheap shysters", and then they turn around and approve of their friends/financers, the pharma companies, putting on ads that, for cheapness, make even lowbrow lawyer ads look classy by comparison.