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/^t/Advertising does not only brainwash children's dreams. Many adults believe so much in the quality of advertisements and their infallibility that they seem to be a bit addicted to them. For example a Ms Green, who is rather plump, tries a new wonder making slim-fast. How astonished and disappointed she is when she looks in the mirror and sees herself, not that slim pretty woman from the advert. Now, even more desperate, she keeps searching for another "remedy" through adverts till she understands they have brainwashed her mind.