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Why Skoal?

The twenty-first century is a glorious time of stunning scientific breakthroughs, a momentous period of achievement in medical advances, and an abominable and complete saturation of tyrant advertisements. Whether it be a fashionable new line of intimate new fragrances, or simply a wrist watch advertisement, the majority of advertisements seem to employ despicably unrelated, but effective methods of advertisement to ensnare the impressionable and naïve public into swallowing everything they are told. A prime example of the erroneousness that modern advertisements are bloated with is an ad for chewing tobacco from the Skoal tobacco company. Skoal's method of advertising is extremely ineffective, especially compared to its peers, and is ultimately unethical in that it is lying to the prospective customers in attempt to sell "a good time" via driving range antics in dire attempt to put a much more positive facade on something as dangerous as tobacco chewing. The......

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