Since the late 1990s, drug companies have spent tens of billions of dollars on television ads, drumming up demand for their products with cheerful jingles and scenes of dancing patients.
  • ErasmusEnglish
    4•4 months ago

    My wife has had Hallmark on over the holiday vacation and this channel is pretty much nonstop pharma ads.

    It struck me after the first hour or so that every ad break wasn’t like the usual network collage of various garbage with an occasional ad for this or that medication thrown in. It was literally every ad on their network.

    • Drusas
      3•4 months ago

      That’s because Hallmark is mostly watched by old people.