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It should be pretty obvious. The drug companies obviously don't think that doctors know what to prescribe, and they'd like the patients to pressure their physicians into using their products. What's sad is that it must obviously be working, TV advertising is not cheap, and doctors routinely do things like prescribing antibiotics for viral infections.

What I want to know is just what is the significance of those twin bathtubs in the Cialis commercials.

In a related issue, I use an email drop for certain types of confidential correspondence. I've noticed that when I mention a word in my emails to people, it puts me on some kind of list that directs certain types of spam
in my direction, through the mail utility. For example, I mentioned my retirement to a correspondent, and soon I was being bombarded with commercial messages about where to take vacations, place my investments, get insurance, and other types of products and services targeted to retiring old farts. I understand there is software that does this, and it picks up on certain key words by scanning your mail, and then sends you relevant advertising. I realize no one is actually "reading my mail", but I also know that nothing is really stopping them from doing so.

I find it both amusing and tragic that Americans, who so much treasure their privacy and simply would not tolerate the government snooping in their mailbox, seem perfectly content to have their most intimate personal messages routinely scanned by some marketing puke.

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