I don't think that advertising drugs to consumers should be legal. I'd go further, and restrict advertising to doctors to a specific format, something like the

I don't think that advertising drugs to consumers should be legal. I'd go further, and restrict advertising to doctors to a specific format, something like the Nutrition Facts label we have for food. They'd be allowed the brand/trademark, but everything else is specified to be in effect a data sheet. The only thing allowing advertising to consumers will do is result in a lot of them insisting on, or agreeing to, drugs they don't actually need.