Boner Pills Pulled

Personally, the Dodger felt that the Levitra woman was way superior to the smirking Viagra dude. Are these ads permitted in prime time, the Dodger thinks they are.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57656-2005Apr15.html

FDA Orders Levitra Ad Off the Air
TV Spot Doesn't Explain Drug's Side Effects

By Frank AhrensWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, April 16, 2005; Page E01

The Food and Drug Administration has ordered drug giants Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC to immediately pull a television ad for impotence drug Levitra, saying that the commercial does not adequately state the drug's potential side effects and that it cannot substantiate claims that it is superior to competitors such as Viagra or that it improves female satisfaction during sexual activity.


The 15-second ad, called "My Man," which includes the tag line, "Levitra: When it counts," features an actress asking, "In the mood for something different?" She goes on to say Levitra is "the best way to experience that difference."

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Levitra is the second impotence drug to have one of its television ads pulled. In November, the FDA told Pfizer Inc. to discontinue a Viagra ad that referred to the actor as "wild thing," saying the company did not state that the drug is for men and failed to mention potential side effects. During the commercial, a browbeaten actor grows blue horns the same color as the pill and appears to become more sexually interested in his female partner