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“The fact that the Food and Drug Administration clarifies on their website that they do not review or approve any drug advertisements before they…

— Jesse Jacoby

Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say…

— Michael Moore

What the people now respond - and the goal of those ads is to merely get the name of the medication into the minds…

— Frank Luntz

“In fact, the messages actually seemed to increase drug use. Kids aged twelve and a half to eighteen who saw the ads were actually…

— Jonah Berger

“Advertisements at 1 a.m. are nauseating.”

— Anonymous

“If you are confronted with the old advertisements interspersed throughout the medical text, you realise that the medical profession shamefully endorsed products that did…

— Gabrielle Palmer

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them…

— Leo Burnett

“The United States is one of only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs”

— H. Gilbert Welch

“Hemorrhoids. Cockroaches. Anal warts. Lonely nights. Smoking's ravages. AIDS. All the ads promised relief from these things, but where was the relief from these…

— George Dawes Green

Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.

— Jeff Goodby

It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by…

— Michael K. Simpson

“I know this is not a very popular idea. You don't hear it too often any more … but it's the truth. I have…

— Bill Hicks