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1. This list goes on, and it is expanding every day.
 he list of different kinds of advertisements is very long, and it is getting longer and longer.
2. Without them acting as sponsors we would not be able to stage international sporting events.
 Large companies provide the necessary financial support needed for international sporting events, and in return they get to advertise their products at these sporting events.
3. As useful as it is, advertisements are sometimes abused by unscrupulous people.
 Although advertisements have many advantages, some people use them in a dishonest way, usually for a bad purpose.
4. Yet these advertisers blatantly ignore facts and promote their products nonetheless.
 Though these advertisers are consciously aware of the harm of smoking, they choose to overlook the obvious facts and keep on advertising cigarettes.
5. Besides giving us a mental jolt they methodically numb and abuse our minds until we watch them without actually seeing and hear their chatter without actually listening.
 Not only do advertisements surprise us and distract us from the middle of an exciting program, they also attack us mentally to such an extent that we simply feel we don’t see or hear anything when the same advertisements are being repeated.
6. Presently advertisement on television is based on hard-selling and relentless assault on the viewers.
 Now advertisers usually promote their products by putting viewers under extreme psychological pressure and attacking them with repetitive advertising of the same product.

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