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/^t/Advertising is the business which makes products for sale known to the public and encourages people to buy them. Alas, the ad market resources to all accessible means of persuasion. Stereotypes and negative patterns of behaviour are spread, the use of aggression and erotic is common. A human-being becomes limited to a consumer who is systematically brainwashed and manipulated by the messages which aim at his/her vulnerable points, not always realized emotional needs and unconscious desires. The conclusion follows that modern advertisements may and do cause harm.