When do ads go too far?

Kizzume · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:26 am Post subject:

Harborview truly is a great facility with really great doctors. Basic Health plan covers them, and actually that's the hospital that I originally signed up for the Basic Health plan at.

Hiedi · Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 97

I personally do not like advertisement of any kind. That is one of the reasons why I do not watch much television, and I "strongly" oppose drug companies advertising to the general public.

Warning: strong language

Chris Rock talks about drugs

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

I am actually almost never against advertisement. But I will have to concede that advertising in the case of pharmacuticals seems a bit over the top to me.

The reason why advertisement doesn't usually bother me, is it pays for the programming I like to watch on television. The web sites I go to-- many are supported because of advertisement. I believe advertisement has definite advantages for the consumer, since as a result there is a lot of Free Radio, free television, and free web sites.

Kizzume · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject:

I am not against most advertisement either--I just think that ALL pharmaceutical advertisements for non-over-the-counter products is wrong.

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

I found a great link with 50 ads that may be considered too far. I'm not going to post all the pictures here, but here's the link and one pic. Some good stuff.

Shocker Ads

debateman · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 349 Location: New Mexico

I actually think that the AIDS ads were really good.

Kizzume · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject:

Yipes. That's quite the image. That was a great site.