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/^t/Apart from all the adventages advertising has got its drawbacks. We are bombared by the advertisements which try to persuade us to buy a particular item. Even cigarettes,sweets or alcohol are associated with the good values of human life such as joy, freedom, love and happines,and just those associations make a person choose the advertised products.The advertisements often influence our point of view so that we can't evaluate objectively what is exaggerated and select the really good products unless we buy the goods and check for themselves.Advertisements brainwash people into buying certain things convincing them that their success depends on purchasing these things. Being under the impact of the advertisements people spend their money on items they don't need but they are sure that for them they're necessary.