§ 21-31-19 False advertising. – (a) An advertisement of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic shall be deemed to befalse if it is false or misleading in any particular.
(b) For the purpose of this chapter the advertisement of adrug or device representing it to have any effect in albuminuria, appendicitis,arteriosclerosis, blood poison, bone disease, Bright's disease, cancer,carbuncles, cholecystitis, diabetes, diphtheria, dropsy, erysipelas,gallstones, heart and vascular diseases, high blood pressure, mastoiditis,measles, meningitis, mumps, nephritis, otitis media, paralysis, pneumonia,poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), prostate gland disorders, pyelitis,scarlet fever, sexual impotence, sinus infection, smallpox, tuberculosis,tumors, typhoid, uremia, or venereal disease shall also be deemed to be false,except that no advertisement not in violation of subsection (a) of this sectionshall be deemed to be false under this subsection if it is disseminated only tomembers of the medical, dental, or veterinary professions, or appears only inthe scientific periodicals of these professions, or is disseminated only forthe purpose of public health education by persons not commercially interested,directly or indirectly, in the sale of the drugs or devices; provided, thatwhenever the director of health determines that an advance in medical sciencehas made any type of self-medication safe as to any of the diseases named inthis subsection, the director of health shall by regulation authorize theadvertisement of drugs having curative or therapeutic effect for that disease,subject to any conditions and restrictions that the director of health may deemnecessary in the interests of public health; provided, that this subsectionshall not be construed as indicating that self-medication for diseases otherthan those named in this section is safe and efficacious.
§ 21-31-19 False advertising. – (a) An advertisement of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic shall be deemed to befalse if it is false or misleading in any particular.
(b) For the purpose of this chapter the advertisement of adrug or device representing it to have any effect in albuminuria, appendicitis,arteriosclerosis, blood poison, bone disease, Bright's disease, cancer,carbuncles, cholecystitis, diabetes, diphtheria, dropsy, erysipelas,gallstones, heart and vascular diseases, high blood pressure, mastoiditis,measles, meningitis, mumps, nephritis, otitis media, paralysis, pneumonia,poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), prostate gland disorders, pyelitis,scarlet fever, sexual impotence, sinus infection, smallpox, tuberculosis,tumors, typhoid, uremia, or venereal disease shall also be deemed to be false,except that no advertisement not in violation of subsection (a) of this sectionshall be deemed to be false under this subsection if it is disseminated only tomembers of the medical, dental, or veterinary professions, or appears only inthe scientific periodicals of these professions, or is disseminated only forthe purpose of public health education by persons not commercially interested,directly or indirectly, in the sale of the drugs or devices; provided, thatwhenever the director of health determines that an advance in medical sciencehas made any type of self-medication safe as to any of the diseases named inthis subsection, the director of health shall by regulation authorize theadvertisement of drugs having curative or therapeutic effect for that disease,subject to any conditions and restrictions that the director of health may deemnecessary in the interests of public health; provided, that this subsectionshall not be construed as indicating that self-medication for diseases otherthan those named in this section is safe and efficacious.
§ 21-31-19 False advertising. – (a) An advertisement of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic shall be deemed to befalse if it is false or misleading in any particular.
(b) For the purpose of this chapter the advertisement of adrug or device representing it to have any effect in albuminuria, appendicitis,arteriosclerosis, blood poison, bone disease, Bright's disease, cancer,carbuncles, cholecystitis, diabetes, diphtheria, dropsy, erysipelas,gallstones, heart and vascular diseases, high blood pressure, mastoiditis,measles, meningitis, mumps, nephritis, otitis media, paralysis, pneumonia,poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), prostate gland disorders, pyelitis,scarlet fever, sexual impotence, sinus infection, smallpox, tuberculosis,tumors, typhoid, uremia, or venereal disease shall also be deemed to be false,except that no advertisement not in violation of subsection (a) of this sectionshall be deemed to be false under this subsection if it is disseminated only tomembers of the medical, dental, or veterinary professions, or appears only inthe scientific periodicals of these professions, or is disseminated only forthe purpose of public health education by persons not commercially interested,directly or indirectly, in the sale of the drugs or devices; provided, thatwhenever the director of health determines that an advance in medical sciencehas made any type of self-medication safe as to any of the diseases named inthis subsection, the director of health shall by regulation authorize theadvertisement of drugs having curative or therapeutic effect for that disease,subject to any conditions and restrictions that the director of health may deemnecessary in the interests of public health; provided, that this subsectionshall not be construed as indicating that self-medication for diseases otherthan those named in this section is safe and efficacious.
