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/^t/Another example of adverts which gave a negative influence on people, are those which advertise alcohol or cigarettes. If such an advert is well done, with an easily remembered slogan, and is put down in a visible place, then it is obvious that we fell the need to check ourselves if the product is as good as in the advert. What are the results? Children start smoking and drinking. Why? Because they want to be on top; be the same kind of person as the pretty woman or the handsome man in the picture. The strange thing is the company which advertises cigarettes or alcohol never shows the other side of their products - bad effects on health, diseases caused by such addictions and death rate. Why do people who smoke forty cigarettes a day or alcoholics not advertise the products? Would it not be much more realistic?