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As a kind of generalisation one could say that the harmful potential of advertising lies in the very fact of creating an unreal world of commercials, deprived of objectivity, pretending to be something different than it is in fact. A phenomenon meant originally to be a source of information has presently become an instrument to misguide and manipulate the process of healthy competition.