Regarding Drug Ads as a Positive Side Effect

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People love to bad-mouth Big Pharma. People also love to bad-mouth advertising. So, you’d think they’d really, really love to badmouth prescription-drug advertising. One surprise in a USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey is that people’s attitudes toward such advertising are in some ways more positive than negative.

Asked to render an overall judgment on prescription-drug advertising, respondents were more likely to say it’s “mostly a good thing” (53 percent) than “mostly a bad thing” (40 percent).

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