MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENTS BILL.
TO, THE EDITOR Sir,— Tuesday’s Star ’ contained a letter bv “A Business ’Man,” who seems to be under some misapprehension concerning the Advertisement of Patent Medicines Bill. He must certainly misunderstand when ho speaks of “ Gestapo legislation in connection with a Bill designed to protect the people from quackery. He speak* of “ putting difficulties in the way of getting products.” Does he not realise that the Bill is concerned not with the telling of patent medicines, but only with then? advertisement? The advertisers are required merely to subnnt their products to analysis and to substantiate their claims. I feel that “ A Business Man strays far from the truth when be describe* a* " this Gestapo-like style of handling affairs a Sill introduced, and, I hope, passed, by the democratically-elected repiesentativcs of the people, a Bill designed to prevent immoral exploitation of the people, “October® 22 ' Scribonius.
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Evening Star, Issue 24333, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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148MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENTS BILL. Evening Star, Issue 24333, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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