37-131 — FALSE ADVERTISING

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                                  TITLE  37
                             FOOD, DRUGS, AND OIL
                                  CHAPTER 1
                      IDAHO FOOD, DRUG AND COSMETIC ACT
    37-131.  FALSE ADVERTISING. (a) An advertisement of a food, drug, device,
or cosmetic shall be deemed to be false if it is false or misleading in any
particular.
    (b)  For the purpose of this act 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, cholecytitis, diabetes, diptheria [diphtheria], dropsy,
erysipelas, gallstones, heart and vascular diseases, high 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, venereal disease, shall also be deemed
to be false, except that no advertisement not in violation of subsection (a)
shall be deemed to be false under this subsection if it is disseminated only
to members of the medical, osteopathic, chiropodial, dental, or veterinary
professions, or appears only in the scientific periodicals of these
professions, 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 board
determines that an advance in medical science has made any type of
self-medication safe as to any of the diseases named above, the board 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 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.