KRS 217.105: When advertising deemed false.

(1) An advertisement of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic shall be deemed to be false if

it is false or misleading in any particular.

(2) For the purpose of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 the advertisement of a drug or device

representing it to have any effect in albu minuria, appendicitis, arteriosclerosis,

blood poison, bone disease, Bright's disease, cancer, carbuncles, cholecytitis,

diabetes, diphtheria, dropsy, erysipelas, gallstones, heart and vascular diseases, high

blood pressure, mastoiditis, measles, meningiti s, mumps, nephritis, otitis media,

paralysis, pneumonia, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), prostate gland disorders,

pyelitis, scarlet fever, sexual impotence, sinus infection, smallpox, tuberculosis,

tumors, typhoid, uremia, venereal disease, shall als o be deemed to be false, except

that no advertisement not in violation of subsection (1) of this section shall be

deemed to be false under this subsection if it is disseminated only to practitioners or

appears only in the scientific periodicals of these pr actitioners, or is disseminated

only for the purpose of public health education by persons not commercially

interested, directly or indirectly, in the sale of such drugs or devices; provided that

whenever the secretary determines that an advance in medical science has made any

type of self -medication safe as to any of the diseases named above, the secretary

shall by regulation authorize the advertisement of drugs having curative or

therapeutic effect for such disease, subject to such conditions and restrict ions as the

secretary 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 herein is safe or efficacious.