Trivial Pursuit

Can You Spot the Real Television Commercial?

A) Ask your policeman about Remmington shotguns!

B) Ask your Veterinarian about Bengel Tigers!

C) Ask you Doctor about Flomax!

If you answered ‘C’ – Congratulations! That’s the real advertisement!

I tried to trick you here. You see, all 3 items – Firearms, Exotic Animals, and Prescription drugs – are items that you can purchase in this country, but only when someone else gives you permission to buy them. You need a gun permit to purchase a firearm, an exotic animal license to purchase a tiger, and a prescription to buy prescription drugs.

Isn’t it curious, though, how only prescription drugs are advertised on television, directly to people who cannot purchase them without prior approval??

There is a good reason why we need permission slips to purchase these items – in the wrong hands, all three can be quite deadly. Which brings me to another fun quiz: Statistically, which of the 3 aforementioned items is the most deadly?

If you said firearms, you’d be wrong. As reported in the 2003 report “Death by Medicine” (Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith) almost 800,000 people in the United States die every year from the effects of prescription drugs. Firearms fall a distant second – according to the Center for Disease Control, there were 30,896 firearm-related deaths in the US in 2006. (I could not find any statistics on deaths by exotic animals, so I will have to relegate this category to 3rd place by default.).

This is a very poor showing for the US firearms industry – perhaps if they upped their ad budget, they could improve their ranking in the future. Madison Avenue knows that cute babies make effective spokespersons – I wonder if this cute little tyke has his SAG card?




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