"I see these heartburn ads on TV and think to myself: These people on the screen are actors, in good health and probably don't get heartburn. The target audience gets heartburn because they eat too much and are overweight."
Not everyone that feel pain from heartburn is because they are out of shape (I would like to see some proof on this, but I have feeling you are pulling that out your...) Some people are born with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERDS) or commonly referred to as acid reflux. Heartburn is a typical symptom of this. Certain foods can make the symptoms worse and considering the popular foods of today it is pretty obvious why there is so many medications out for this now. This does not really have anything at all to do with how well in shape you are and not so much about eating too much in general, but what food and drink you consume. This is not a rare disease and is pretty common for people to have it, which is a major reason why these companies want their name out there.
I personally hate the commercials because my doctor is not going to prescribe something because I saw it on an ad, there is way too many other things they have to consider before doing this. The side effects listed take up about 30 seconds and gets on my nerves as well, so really I am left with a negative impression of the medicine from the start. I do take some medicine for my acid reflux to help control it, but not because I see an ad for it. It take it because it hurts badly if I don't take it and there is additional problems that can occur if it is left unchecked.
10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people.
I believe this is pretty straight forward. They only way a law is constitutional is if it is allowed for by the constitution, otherwise it is the business of the state or citizens to decide upon. This law is the not the business of the Federal Government from my perspective and should be considered unconstitutional as the constitution does not specifically grant this power.
I wish someone would come down hard on the federal government to put them back into their place and also have it deemed illegal to withhold funding for states not adopting unconstitutional laws mandated by them. I applaud for Maine wanting to keep it the rights that a state has and hopefully more states will take a stance.
You are 17 years old and there is reason to jump start yourself into a career lifestyle. My advice is to take a variety of different classes your first few semesters of college courses to get an idea of what you really want to do. There is a pretty good chance you may end up wanting to do something completely different.
From my personal experience, I started off wanting to do programming and a few classes later decided I never wanted to write code for a program again, despite being an A student in those courses. I found that I get quite a headache from programming and to think that could possibly be the next 40 years or so of my life was not something I wanted. Although thanks to having taken other classes, such those for information systems and history, I found two areas that really interested me a great deal and gave me something to pursue I actually enjoy.
You have the rest of your life to work your ass off once you get out of the school systems. Just sit back and enjoy life as much as you can before you reach a point where aiming for a career actually makes sense, which is quite a few years away for you yet.
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"I see these heartburn ads on TV and think to myself: These people on the screen are actors, in good health and probably don't get heartburn. The target audience gets heartburn because they eat too much and are overweight."
Not everyone that feel pain from heartburn is because they are out of shape (I would like to see some proof on this, but I have feeling you are pulling that out your...) Some people are born with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERDS) or commonly referred to as acid reflux. Heartburn is a typical symptom of this. Certain foods can make the symptoms worse and considering the popular foods of today it is pretty obvious why there is so many medications out for this now. This does not really have anything at all to do with how well in shape you are and not so much about eating too much in general, but what food and drink you consume. This is not a rare disease and is pretty common for people to have it, which is a major reason why these companies want their name out there.
I personally hate the commercials because my doctor is not going to prescribe something because I saw it on an ad, there is way too many other things they have to consider before doing this. The side effects listed take up about 30 seconds and gets on my nerves as well, so really I am left with a negative impression of the medicine from the start. I do take some medicine for my acid reflux to help control it, but not because I see an ad for it. It take it because it hurts badly if I don't take it and there is additional problems that can occur if it is left unchecked.10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people. I believe this is pretty straight forward. They only way a law is constitutional is if it is allowed for by the constitution, otherwise it is the business of the state or citizens to decide upon. This law is the not the business of the Federal Government from my perspective and should be considered unconstitutional as the constitution does not specifically grant this power. I wish someone would come down hard on the federal government to put them back into their place and also have it deemed illegal to withhold funding for states not adopting unconstitutional laws mandated by them. I applaud for Maine wanting to keep it the rights that a state has and hopefully more states will take a stance.
You are 17 years old and there is reason to jump start yourself into a career lifestyle. My advice is to take a variety of different classes your first few semesters of college courses to get an idea of what you really want to do. There is a pretty good chance you may end up wanting to do something completely different. From my personal experience, I started off wanting to do programming and a few classes later decided I never wanted to write code for a program again, despite being an A student in those courses. I found that I get quite a headache from programming and to think that could possibly be the next 40 years or so of my life was not something I wanted. Although thanks to having taken other classes, such those for information systems and history, I found two areas that really interested me a great deal and gave me something to pursue I actually enjoy. You have the rest of your life to work your ass off once you get out of the school systems. Just sit back and enjoy life as much as you can before you reach a point where aiming for a career actually makes sense, which is quite a few years away for you yet.