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		savingsPossible on Feb 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I changed my mind about advertising Care to elaborate? Are pills being sold by pretty ads that are required to tell people about risks AND required not to tell about what the pill is for? AND those ads WORK? Wow

Retric on Feb 10, 2022 [–]

They are allowed to tell you want the pill is for, but I have seen a few commercials where I had no idea what the pill was trying to treat.

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