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Advertising often does and have a negative and harmful impact on individuals and society. Harmful or utterly useless goods are touted to the public, false assertions are made about goods for sale, less than admirable human tendencies are exploited, advertising is responsible for such harm to the society. ...
Advertising can have various economic, political, cultural and religious harms to the society. ...
a) Economic Harms of Advertising-- Advertising can betray its role as a source of information by misrepresentation and by withholding relevant facts. ...
The practice of "brand"-related advertising can raise serious problems. Often there are only negligible differences among similar products of different brands, and advertising may attempt to move people to act on the basis of irrational motives ("brand loyalty," status, fashion. ... But the abuse is still more grave when consumerist attitudes and values are transmitted by communications media and advertising to developing countries, where they exacerbate socio-economic problems and harm the poor by persuading them to seek their progress by satisfying wants that have been artificially created.
Approximate Word count = 822
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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