Why were we bombarded with commercials about HPV?

Remember? "cancer caused by a virus! I didn't know! Life is so unfair to women! " I had better "tell someone!" Remember?
Oh lord, all women are going to get cervical cancer.

Merck fronted these commercials so 6 months later they could sell you the hpv vaccine. Hallelujah lord! We found the cure! Make sure you are "one less"!

Try not to be such sheep people.

Women in the US are being bombarded with information about HPV because there is now a vaccine being sold that supposedly provides some protection. It's about the money...MONEY. They want to sell more vaccine so the drug manufacturer is doing the advertising.

As far as I know, no one virus has yet been discovered to CAUSE cancer in humans. They're just saying it to scare people into the vaccine.
This isn't really a question, but I want to comment because I noticed the same thing.

Any time a medical company has commercials that look like public service announcements, be suspicious. Merck wants to sell more pap smears (ugh!) and their crap vaccine which will probably cause more cancer than it will cure.

If a commercial doesn't have the Public Service Announcement screen around it, it's just an ad.
i wondered about this whole vaccine bit...
Because if you can stop people from getting HPV, by getting them vaccinated, then you can stop it from spreading so rapidly and save lives... It's an STD that can have fatal consequences.

I'll be getting that shot - one less STD to f**k up my life. Baaaaaaa.

If they were advertising the vaccine for AIDs would you be saying this?
Are you on a crusade??
seriously! they give out postcards to send out saying that stuff.. its such a downer!! could you imagine getting that in the mail...

its so Debbie Downer!