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Apreche on April 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: What if we made advertising illegal?

The answer is the same way we banned cigarette ads.

oblanvil on April 6, 2025 [–]

Yep, such an obvious & simple answer.

I’m always amazed by how much ink gets poured before somebody mentions the obvious: this question has already been answered in a different context.

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