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Advertising as information
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    Next time you hear a tobacco industry representative extolling the neo-classical economists' defense of tobacco advertising as “information”, here's a good example to put the claim to the test. The ad for Imperial Tobacco's Embassy was published in the scatological British comic Viz, immensely popular particularly among 14-year-old schoolboys who like reading about …

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