DON'T GET BITTEN BY BROMIDES
Sheridan, Mary
Your Money's Worth Don't Get Bitten By Bromides By MARY SHERIDAN WARTIME swing shifts, overtime hours of work, war nerves, and all the emotional tensions of this period have made it harder for...
...Some of its physical symptoms are skin rash, slurring speech, staggering, and trembling...
...Affording the same degree of enjoyment to those who relish smoking a good cigarette, they contain, as well, about the same amount of nicotine and other ingredients generally believed to be injurious to health...
...B. C. Reece, Tennessee Republican, which would destroy the Federal Trade Commission's power to compel patent medicine concerns to reveal important facts in their ads and labels...
...The FTC policy in regulating label statements is mild and certainly difficult to criticize by manufacturers with any sense of public responsibility...
...I The Truth About A Cigarette j While cigarettes are still scarce, cigarette advertising is as plentiful—and obnoxious—as ever...
...Bromides, too, are thought to be an easy cure for headaches, nervousness, vague pains, and hangovers, as well as insomnia...
...For the sake of public health, here's hoping that people who by carelessness or ignorance rely too frequently on sleeping pills or bromides will become converted to the healthier cures of fresh air, sunshine, moderation in food and drink, and exercise...
...John T. Cuttino testified that of 1,947 mental patients admitted to an asylum, he found 10 per cent (of whom more than half were women) had been using bromides excessively...
...by telling the truth: "CO-OP Cigarettes are made of quality domestic tobaccos—expertly blended to give a mild, gratifying smoke...
...Fair enough...
...In explaining FTC's policy, Edwin L. Davis, FTC Chairman, recently said: "We don't try to force anyone to make label statements of any kind...
...Levin also testified that bromides in general are as serious a cause of insanity as sleeping pills of the barbitol type, excessive use of alcohol, or even various narcotics derived from opium...
...The occasional use of such sedatives, especially when prescribed by a doctor for specific conditions, probably hurts no one...
...Now there's a shocker in advertising technique...
...Except for the lack of ballyhoo, they will be found to differ very little from brands of more widely heralded renown...
...But many drug and pill makers don't think so...
...They are reported behind the bill introduced by Rep...
...We have developed a procedure under which we extend to some respondents the privilege of using a simple cautionary statement in their advertising if they so desire in lieu of making full statements, providing the labeling of their products is adequate to protect the public health...
...Bromide intoxication may produce severe mental derangement," Dr...
...Used over a long period, experts warn, the pills may cause ill effects...
...At these FTC hearings investigating Bromo-Selt-zer, Stamback, BC, Capudine, and other bromides, Dr...
...Well I cooked them & ate them then I threw up...
...Well, the bromide business is big and profitable, and its advertising crowds the daily newspapers and gluts the airwaves...
...Among its mental symptoms are sluggishness of thinking, failure of attention and memory, inability to concentrate, irritability and depression...
...A Lighter Note In the midst of the great meat famine, with most of us longing for those old days of Summer picnics of hamburgers, I have been fortified by this letter which Table Topics, a clever house organ of Bellows & Company, swears is true: "Last Sunday the Boy Scouts of our school went on a hike & I was with them, it was fun but tirering...
...The basic ingredient of many sleeping pills is barbituric acid, and indiscriminate use may become habit-forming...
...Max Levin, a psychiatrist and a major in the Army Medical Corps, testified that a woman may take a bromide, notice a certain relief, and, not knowing that the bromide contains poison, will continue to take more and more bromides...
...More and more people have resorted to sleeping pills as an easy and quick way to get to sleep...
...Levin said...
...One wonders why the cigarette concerns spend millions for radio shows and magazine and newspaper spreads other than to deprive the Treasury of tax revenue...
...The press, because of the ads, isn't greatly interested in the warning in the FTC testimony...
...I don't know if I passed it or not its sposted to be etable...
...But steady use is quite another thing...
...I wanted to pass my cooking test so I tried to cook a quarter lb of meat & 2 potoes in the open with no utin-sel...
...It is extremely common...
...In recent hearings before the Federal Trade Commission, Dr...
...National Cooperatives have a new brand of CO-OP cigarettes which they are advertising in a unique way...
...Your Money's Worth Don't Get Bitten By Bromides By MARY SHERIDAN WARTIME swing shifts, overtime hours of work, war nerves, and all the emotional tensions of this period have made it harder for people to relax and sleep...
...Bromide Business Is Big And if that doesn't scare you away from buying and using bromides, Dr...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 30
