Macleans Toothpaste Commercial No. 2 ~ 1965 Glaxo

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"Its tingling taste tells you it's working..."

Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlaxoSmithKline

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GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) is a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Brentford, London. Established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, GSK was the world's sixth largest pharmaceutical company as of 2015, after Pfizer, Novartis, Merck, Hoffmann-La Roche and Sanofi.

Emma Walmsley became CEO on 31 March 2017 and is the first female CEO of the company...

GSK's drugs and vaccines earned revenue of £21.3 billion in 2013. Its top-selling products that year were Advair, Avodart, Flovent, Augmentin, Lovaza and Lamictal. GSK's consumer products, which earned revenue of £5.2 billion in 2013, include Sensodyne and Aquafresh toothpaste, the malted-milk drink Horlicks, Abreva for cold sores, Breathe Right nasal strips, Nicoderm and Nicorette nicotine replacements, and Night Nurse, a cold remedy...

In 2012 GSK pleaded guilty to promotion of drugs for unapproved uses, failure to report safety data, and kickbacks to physicians in the United States and agreed to pay a $3 billion (£1.9bn) settlement. It was the largest health-care fraud case to date in that country and the largest settlement by a drug company...

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/14/archives/consumer-notes-chloroform-ban-has-a-weak-spot.html

The United States Food and Drug Administration has made final its ban on drugs and cosmetics that contain chloroform, but because it has ordered no recall, inventories of products that contain the chemical may still be on stores helves.

According to a spokesman, no recall was ordered because the agency did not believe that the amount of chloroform in the products presented a “significant health hazard.” The ban, effective July 29, was ordered, however, because of tests that linked liver cancer in mice and kidney tumors in rats to the chemical.

Chloroform has been widely used for decades in cough syrups, liniments and some toothpastes, to mask unpleasant flavors and for the cool or bracing feeling it gives...

The chairman of the New York State Consumer Protection Board, Rosemary Pooler, has expressed concern about existing stocks of such products in a recent letter to the F.D.A. Commissioner, Alexander M. Schmidt. “We've already talked with the manufacturers of Maclean's and Ultra Brite Toothpastes to ask about existing supplies,” she wrote...

It was Dr. Wolfe, in fact, who had laboratory tests conducted that showed the presence of chloroform in Macleans’ and Ultra Brite toothpastes. He found that Maclean's was 2 percent chloroform...