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Several high profile groups around the country, including the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) based in Los Angeles, CA are calling on Pfizer to remove advertising for Viagra that the groups say promotes unsafe activity.
The full-page ads ran in several major newspapers and showed a gray haired man smiling with the caption “What are you doing New Year''s Eve?” suggestively written in large print. The groups say that the advertising suggests that men should use Viagra recreationally on New Year''s Eve and may promote unsafe activity in revelers.
Michael Weinstein, the president of the AHF, the world''s largest AIDS group, said that the ads misrepresented the drug. Weinstein went so far as to say that the advertising promoted Viagra as a party drug, rather than a prescription treatment for a medical condition.
Viagra has recently seen an increase in recreational use, especially in the gay community. Many health officials and community groups are trying to ban the use of Viagra for any purpose other than for medically documented erectile dysfunction.
Several recent medical journals reported that recreational Viagra use in men under the age of 45 was on the rise. In 2005 the American Journal of Medicine reported that the recreational use of Viagra and other erectile dysfunction medication led to an increase in the rate of unprotected sex and the rate of transmission of sexual diseases including HIV and AIDS.
Despite the efforts of several groups, officials, and many prominent members of the medical community to even put warning labels on the drugs that reflect the marked increase in potential dangers, Viagra remains without the warnings.