It&#x27;s not the best solution, but I don&#x27;t think banning them will do any good. I&#x27;m more rebutting the attitude in this thread that medical information is only for your doctor and not you. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll get better health outcomes by focusing all of your medical advertising budget on influencing doctors behind the backs of patients. And advertising does serve a legitimate purpose; I knew a woman with restless leg syndrome who had suffered from it for all her life, but a treatment wasn&#x27;t developed until something like 5 or 10 years ago. She&#x27;d have never asked her doctor about it had she not seen the advertising since she had gone without medication for 50 or 60 years at that point.