General Provisions Governing Advertising. (a) No person shall advertise any food, drug, cosmetic, or device to the general public as a treatment, preventative or cure for any of the diseases, disorders or abnormal physical states that are, listed in Schedule A. (b) Any food, drug, cosmetic, or device advertised to the general public as a treatment, preventative or cure for any disease, disorder or abnormal physical state shall be made in the English, or Carolinian or Chamorro languages. An advertisement made in any other language shall be accompanied by an accurate and full English translation. Source: PL 11-40, § 2 (§ 102), modified. Commission Comment: Schedule A of PL 11-40 read as follows: SCHEDULE A Alcoholism Alopecia Anxiety state Appendicitis Arteriosclerosis Arthritis Asthma Bladder Disease Cancer Convulsions Depression Diabetes Disease of the prostate Prostate (maladies) Disorder of menstrual flow Dysentery Edematous state Epilepsy Gall bladder disease Gangrene Glaucoma Gout Heart disease Hernia Hypertension Hyportension Impetigo Kidney disease Leukemia Liver disease Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy Pleurisy
Rheumatic fever Septicemia Sexual Impotence Thrombotic and Embolic disorders Thyroid disease Tumor Ulcer of the gastro intestinal tract Venereal disease