Winston tastes good like a cigarette should

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should, call for Philip Morris; I’d walk a mile for a Camel, the old cigarette slogans or jingles. I remember when they were on TV and radio along with liquor ads. Doctors use to appear in ads telling you which was their favorite brand. Then again back then they didn’t know the dangers of smoking. It was accepted I can remember smoking in grocery stores.
Then they started to find out how dangerous smoking was and slowly as it was verified and published the ads were taken off TV then radio.
What replaced them?
Ads for drugs, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and the most dangerous of all, attorneys replaced cigarettes and booze. I’m not sure that was a good trade.
When I was growing up outside of aspirin, alka seltzer things like that none of the items I listed before were allowed to be advertised
I was musing today on health care today, cold blooded insurance companies, DRGs, doctors who don’t care about patients and are just in it for the money, drugs that can cause more problems than they cure, drugs that become addictive in a dose or two. People live longer, is the quality of life better? People without medical training see an advertisement for a drug and go to their doctor and demand it. The doctor prescribes it; the drug company makes money the doctor gets paid for the visit. Then the patient has reactions to the medication, more doctor visits and more drugs. The patient’s quality of life goes down yet they live longer using more drugs and doctor visits. Doctors and drug companies get richer. I thought it was illegal to practice medicine without a license yet advertising companies are telling people how to diagnose themselves what would you call that? Lawyers say it’s legal and why it keeps them rich as well.
We may not have lived as long on the average yet somehow I think we were healthier, happier, had more personal freedom and a better quality of life when cigarette ads were on TV and radio.