When Merry and I become joint Prime Ministers of this wonderful country of ours there will be some changes to advertising laws.
I've decided that medicines that falsely claim (or cleverly imply) they cure something will be a serious health risk for whoever wrote the description. I'm thinking whipping posts in town centres for those who make this stuff up.
You can stand there in a pharmacist looking at 100s of similar medicines and all (or nearly all) will be of no use whatsoever.
I'm sure there are laws now and that if you take a lawyer with you to the pharmacist he will spot each cleverly worded 'get out' clause, but who has time to study the wording for each item and why should we have to?
Especially as I notice the small print is rapidly becoming microscopic.
What I would like is to see 6 items for each malady instead of 600. Labelled simply and truthfully with the ingredients and the likelihood of it having the desired effect."serious health risk for whoever wrote the description"
In the meantime, feel free to tell Doc Asy your symptoms, and she'd be happy to troubleshoot the available over-the-counter meds for you.
*What I would like is to see 6 items for each malady instead of 600. Labelled simply and truthfully with the ingredients and the likelihood of it having the desired effect.*
Commie pinko!!!
Actually a couple of our local drugstores do provide plastic magnifiers tethered to the meds shelves at strategic intervals. They probably got fed up with people cluttering up the pharmacy window demanding to have the labels read aloud!I think all the descriptions should be law be written by people who had the illnesses , took the medicines, and lived to tell the tale.
Painkillers is an example. I have never taken an over the counter painkiller yet that killed pain and they only dull it if you take twice the stated dose which could be dangerous except on isolated occasions. I think pain killers is a human right and they should be forced to sell ones that do work with workable dosages quoted.
I agree in principle with the "only 6 choices instead of 600" and this should be applied to all things not just medicines. Bank Accounts, Insurance Policies, Fridge Freezers, Shoe Laces, the vast choice is mental illness inducing these days.
I think pain killers is a human right
I think pain killers lose their effect with continued use. If I get a headache I go for a walk rather than reach for the paracetamol. Thay way they are still effective if I really need them. As for quack potions and unsubstantiated cures, the first things that should go are homeopathic 'medicines'. It is outrageous that the NHS is actually wasting money financing them.does you not believe in Chas. Windsor's Patent Cure then, Eccs?
Apparently it works wonders and lets you understand wot Plants say to you.
does you not believe in Chas. Windsor's Patent Cure then, Eccs?
Possibly a clever statement there; in order to accept homeopathy as a potential cure, one has to believe "in" it, in a similar manner that one believes in a god or gods. But you never have to believe in an aspirin. It is often said that an agnostic says "Show me and I will believe." but a true agnostic doesn't need to believe; rather better might be the statement "Show me, and I will accept the evidence." With homeopathy, as with gods, there is none.
