The other day while watching television, I came across an ad for people with depression.  No drug was mentioned and all the ad showed was people smiling and having a good time.  The ad used a lot of "soft" words and used the term "Life is waiting."  It talked about how by simply completing a form online your life could change.  I got even more suspicious when I saw the logo of GlaxoSmithKline - the maker of drugs to cure depression.  It is called Paxil in the US and Seroxat in the UK.  It is a drug that works like Prozac.

All of this will be fine but the sneaking manner in which the ad has been designed and the fact that Paxil/Seroxat has been linked to suicide attempts even in adults (Prozac too has also been accused to causing suicidal tendencies).

While I did not want to give my personal info just to check out what it was all about, Dr. John Grohol did.  What he found was that the whole "Life is waiting" campaign is about companies using sneaky ways to sell drugs.  Reminds me of how Merck sold Vioxx.