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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

Thanks for the anecdote. But the positive takeaway here is that the patient came in to start on the path to smoking cessation after being inspired by the TV commercial. Admittedly he/she sounds like a stubborn, irrational a-hole, but that's beside the point. It's better to deal with the patient now than to spend the oodles of time and money later on when the patient develops end-stage lung cancer.

True, TV ads are not perfectly unbiased, but they are highly, highly regulated. There is a warm and fuzziness to these ads that you don't get from the prescribing information alone. I wouldn't exactly call that misleading.

Actually, he came in to start on that path after seeing one of our posters telling him that 40% of the LGBTQ population smoke & that we can help people quit. But I get your point.