Advertisers want you to feel that the best people (the young, rich, handsome, beautiful and healthy) smoke his brand. So if you want to be young, rich, handsome, beautiful and healthy you’d better smoke the advertised brand, too.
“Wait!” you tell him. “I’m smoking one of your other brands! An hour ago you showed me that I could be young, rich, handsome and healthy if I smoked ZanaDoos. Now you want me to switch to WakaDoos. That isn’t fair!”
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