• coaxil@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Why are you against this? I thought it was shown the advertising is reasonably affective?

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      Because it’s traumatic imagery being shoved in people’s faces. I don’t give a shit whether it works.

      I already don’t smoke and never will - but I have to be exposed to that shit, just looking at the wrong part of a shelf. You could probably put pictures of exploded rat carcasses and starving children on there, apropos of nothing, and yeah no kidding it’ll impact sales!

      No practical goal justifies putting this Rotten.com gore and shock content on commodity consumer goods. You wanna reduce sales? Tax it more. Don’t commit psychological warfare against anyone who glances upward at a gas station.