In the beginning, tobacco companies’ TV ads ruled the airways. If you didn’t ride high on a horse and smoke their brand, you weren’t a man.
Next came the liquor ads. Beer, wine and whiskey each had their day.
Now we are smothered with pharmaceutical ads that cover every inch of the body. They go on and on about age failing sex life, bone loss and various aches that become a pain in the rear end — and they even have relief for that.
If the auto industry was as explicit in their sales pitch as the drug companies, the industry would not be able to make cars fast enough to fill all of the orders.
Walter A. Taubeneck
Marysville
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