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Selling out ourselves.
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be smokers. This PSA sponsored by Marlboro.
Advertisers, masters of the shell game. So what else is new?
When I was in 6th grade (a milion years ago), we had a unit on advertising and its methods. It was the coolest thing I ever learned in school -- loved it, and it made me grow up to laugh at would-be manipulators and to be smart and cynical and credit card debt-free.
Do schools still do that?
No?