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/^t/Modern advertising, while boosting goods and gaining new customers, promotes also a certain lifestyle which, slowly but gradually, becomes standard. Its effect is consumer society. You are what you have. Therefore you buy - to keep up with the Joneses, to show off or for your own satisfaction. It is a never-ending process - since there are always new products being introduced to the market, you do not stop buying. As a result, buying becomes a sort of addiction, which it is very difficult to overcome.