Most Americans Say TV Drug Ads Are Okay

I guess we still love watching those late night Viagra commercials with the boys in the band...but on the other side of the coin, we pay for these ads when we fill a prescription....BD

To be precise, 53 percent say the advertising is mostly a good thing, and 67 percent agree that these ads educate people about treatments and encourage them to get help for conditions they might not have been aware of, according to a survey conducted by USA Today and public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. They polled 1,695 adults ages 18 and older this past January.

By the way, 46 percent think many ads are too sexually explicit, but only 20 percent say they are bothered a lot.