Corey Charette (dot) com

I was sitting here watching TV today and this commercial came up:

Now, commercials for “zit cream” & cleansers have been on TV since before I could even get pimples, but now the drug companies are trying to encourage teenagers to go and get their medicine to use for this issue.

It’s bad enough that these drug companies have been trying to encourage consumers to go to their doctors and ask for pills to help cure them of medical problems that they might not even have.  That’s wrong in of itself, but now aiming for the teenage market is just disgusting.  This just shows you how greedy these big pharmaceutical companies are that they will do what they can to get anyone to take their pills.  I wish that these “drink the Kool-Aid” commercials would just go away.

One thing that should be done is to have stricter regulations as to what commercials should be allowed on TV.  I have no problem with any commercial that’s on TV to encourage people to purchase a product, but I think that it should be made unlawful for commercials like this to target teenagers.

If the drug company wants to advertise it’s anti-acne medicine on television; that’s fine.  They should just aim it at the twenty-something audience instead.  Put a college age student in the commercial and avoid using the word “acne”.  To me, the word “acne” refers to something a teenager would get.  Maybe changing it up and using “blemishes” or “outbreaks” instead.

The beer companies are allowed to put their commercials on TV but don’t encourage people that are underage to drink.  Why can’t the pharmaceutical companies not be allowed to target their medicine to minors?

That’s just my two cents.