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Is this a frivolous lawsuit ?

I’m not a lawyer, but I’d have to say “Yes”. It’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. An AIDS group is suing Pfizer over Viagra saying that their ads promote sexual diseases.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A major U.S. AIDS treatment group plans to file a lawsuit on Monday that accuses drug giant Pfizer Inc. of illegally promoting recreational use of its blockbuster impotence pill Viagra.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) told Reuters it wants Pfizer to be barred from marketing Viagra as a lifestyle or sexual enhancement drug. The nonprofit organization said Pfizer’s actions had led to risky behavior by men and an increase in HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

I agree with the AHF that Viagra is a sexual enhancement drug but unless you are a nun living in a convent I don’t see why a drug that enhances or creates sexual function harms society.
Why the lawsuit ?
It’s unprotected sex that causes sexual diseases and a raise in the spread of HIV anyway, not whether the man uses a pill to get an erection or not.
If anything they should sue everybody, man or woman who ever had sex.
Shouldn’t AHF try to prevent all sexual behavior because that might lead to sexual diseases ?
No, of course not, no one is arguing that they should, so why penalize the men that can’t get an erection naturally but need to do it with pills ?

According to the lawsuit brought by the AHF, the men in the Viagra advertisements are younger then the average user of Viagra.
Yes, most of the men using Viagra are probably older, but why would a commercial using younger men be an action worth suing over ?
In all industries, especially clothing, the models are thin and beautiful and not like the majority of consumers, yet I’ve never heard of a lawsuit against Giorgio Armani because the models he uses are thinner and more handsome than the normal men who buy his clothes.

Besides some of the men who might need Viagra are indeed young men who have prostate cancer and can’t achieve an erection during or shortly after their prostate cancer treatment.
They might be more likely to buy a product that advertises with people closer to their own age group.
Using younger models to advertise a product is certainly not a crime, nor is a matter to have a lawsuit over.

Also in the article is this statement:

Studies show evidence of recreational Viagra use among men who have sex with men, sometimes to overcome the erection-inhibiting effects of alcohol or street drugs such as ecstasy and crystal methamphetamine, AHF said.

And so what !
Viagra is mis-used by an illegal segment of our society (drug users) So are hypodermic needles.
So are little straws.
Yet I don’t see any movements to sue the manufacturers of hypodermic needles or little straws because there is evidence that they increase drug use.

I’ll finish this post by saying that I am not a lawyer or legal expert in anything, but I really don’t agree with this lawsuit against Pfizer.
It is frivolous and to offset their costs of legal fees, Pfizer might raise the prices of their other medicines.
That would effect many people, and not just the Viagra users or people with AIDS.

Today FOX news aired a story about the idiotic name calling feud between Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell and interviewed an ex Miss America beauty queen to ask her opions on the matter.

No, this is not an old post from the week of Dec 21, nor is it from Dec 24, 26, 29 or Jan 3.
It is from today, January 4. I am so sick of hearing about the juvenile behavior of one calling the other a name and the other responding by using a more offensive name. I thought these people were adults. They both are insults to humanity. I am also tired of hearing the opinions of ex-beauty queens on this affair. They do nothing but have pretty faces which the media can exploit to boost their ratings. (I have news for all the media: men who want to look at beautiful women don’t look at news shows to do so.)
It was bad enough the first time, but to drag the same story out for 6 times? It’s ghastly. Is there nothing more important going on in the world that the media can discuss besides such a stupid quarrel that belongs in the playgrounds of a kindergarten and the opinions of pretty women who are only asked their opinions because they are, in fact, pretty women? I mean why not have a discussion about Iraq ? Darfur ? the Democratic congress ? the Republican president ? Anything besides the same old tired story being repeated different ways with different women who happen to be ex-beauty queens giving their opinions. It really is tiring.
No wonder so many people get their news from the internet.