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Advertising Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
How far will companies go to sell their products? All too often the answer is too far. Advertising is a marketing technique that both blatantly and subconsciously persuades consumers to purchase products. Companies exhibit a breech of ethics in their strategies to sell their products, being even more reprehensible when the marketing is targeted to children. Advertisers are not held accountable for the effects their marketing efforts have in the process of boosting sales. Social responsibility would be achieved as a result of strict laws and federal regulations reducing the hazardous consequences of advertising.
Why is it so easy for advertisers to cross the line of social responsibility? Because there is no line. There are no laws to govern advertising or repercussions to follow. There are self-regulatory guidelines that should be followed but no punishments result when they are not. There is no accountability for the lack of business......

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