Vermont § 4068 - Advertising Rules

§ 4068. Advertising Rules

• (a) An advertisement of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic shall be deemed to be false
  if it is false or misleading in any particular. (b) For the purpose of this chapter, the advertisement of a drug 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 section, shall be deemed to be false under
  this subsection if it is disseminated only to members of the medical, dental, or veterinary
  professions, or appears only in the scientific periodicals of these professions, or
  is disseminated only for the purpose of public health education by persons not commercially
  interested, directly or indirectly, in the sale of the drugs or devices, provided
  that whenever the Department determines that an advance in medical science has made
  any type of self-medication safe as to any of the diseases named in this subsection,
  the Department shall by rule authorize the advertisement of drugs having curative
  or therapeutic effect for the disease, subject to such conditions and restrictions
  as the Department may deem necessary in the interests of public health, provided that
  this subsection shall not be construed as indicating that self-medication for diseases
  other than those named in this section is safe or efficacious. (Added 1959, No. 172, § 19, eff. May 12, 1959; amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 2023, No. 6, § 147, eff. July 1, 2023; 2023, No. 53, § 97, eff. June 8, 2023.)