From: JEGJR1@webtv.net
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:08 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Commercial Speech? It's STILL Just Advertising!

Dear Sirs:
      Are you not seeking Public Commentary on your authority over
"Commercial Speech" concerning products under your jurisdiction?      
      With all due respect, haven't we had enough of this advertising
crap? It is getting farther and farther removed from reality!
      The more it's removed from reality, the more "it" becomes a LIE!
And really, in your heart of hearts, you KNOW that you don't like people
lying to YOU!
      Don't get me wrong. There's NOTHING wrong with telling people
about your product, but haven't things "been out of hand" for some time?
      And you will have to admit-there IS such a thing as "sins of
omission"!
      Now, no one expects-in our Free Enterprise System-to hear/see no
commercials. I WANT to learn about new products, etc.. But I DON'T want
to be lied to!
      There are other people like me, who NEVER buy the most advertised
brand, figuring-like me-that if the product has to be THAT heavily
advertised, then the product MUST not be that good, since the
manufacturer is "relying" on advertising [heavily] to sell his product!
Also, who pays for this Advertising/Commercial Speech?
      Why, WE do, of course! YOU and ME, in the form of increased
prices.
      I respectfully submit to you, the "Nexium" ads as a perfect
example. Is Nexium really THAT different a drug? Some people think that
it's the SAME drug as Prilosec, repackaged, due ENTIRELY to copyright
limitations.
      C'mon, you people! Isn't it bad enough that we get so many
dangerous drugs on the Market, due to your-no offense-worship of the
pharmaceutical industry? You know "the figures" as well as I do-I would
just have to run and look 'em up.
      We have seen what happens when corporations are not given enough
vigilance (Enron, WorldComm (sp?), etc., etc..
      Here is your chance to bring some logic, some reason, some sanity
back to out society. We NEED it, because I, personally, don't think
that-at our present rate-we will survive (as a society) beyond 2050. 
      Why? Because, by THAT time, EVERYTHING will be "packaging", with
absolutely no "content". It's already starting to happen!
      And Daniel Troy KNOWS I'm right! 
      Folks, enough is enough!