Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-1412
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Advertisements - False or misleading
Official statutory text
(a) An advertisement of a drug, device, or cosmetic shall be
deemed to be false if it is false or misleading in any particular.
(b) For the purposes of this article, 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, gallstone, heart and vascular diseases, high
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 63. Public Health and Safety Page 616
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 sexually transmitted infection (STI) 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
scientific periodicals of those professions, or is disseminated only
for the purpose of public health education by persons not
commercially interested, directly or indirectly, in the sale of
drugs or devices; provided, that whenever the State Commissioner of
Health determines that an advance in medical science has made any
type of self-medication safe as to any of the diseases named above,
the State Board of Health shall by regulation authorize the
advertisement of drugs having curative or therapeutic effect for
such disease, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the
Board and the Commissioner may deem necessary in the interests of
public health; provided, that this subsection shall not be construed
as indicating that self-medication for disease other than those
named herein is safe or efficacious.
deemed to be false if it is false or misleading in any particular.
(b) For the purposes of this article, 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, gallstone, heart and vascular diseases, high
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 63. Public Health and Safety Page 616
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 sexually transmitted infection (STI) 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
scientific periodicals of those professions, or is disseminated only
for the purpose of public health education by persons not
commercially interested, directly or indirectly, in the sale of
drugs or devices; provided, that whenever the State Commissioner of
Health determines that an advance in medical science has made any
type of self-medication safe as to any of the diseases named above,
the State Board of Health shall by regulation authorize the
advertisement of drugs having curative or therapeutic effect for
such disease, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the
Board and the Commissioner may deem necessary in the interests of
public health; provided, that this subsection shall not be construed
as indicating that self-medication for disease other than those
named herein is safe or efficacious.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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