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/^t/What about the adverts' influence on children? Let us imagine a child having not much affluent parents who is watching a film on TV and every fifteen minutes he sees the adverts of a new Barbie set, up-to-date model cars, computer games, etc. What makes the toys attractive is their bright colours which catch child's attention. It is important for a child to have the latest toy model as he does not want to feel worse among his friends. And what is more, he does not care that his parents hardly make ends meet. Hopeless parents, standing in a queue to spend the last money on their child's new whim, keeps cursing the whole advertising as it is the only thing they can do.