Consumers are faced with increasing numbers of advertisements from competing companies. To what extent do you think are consumers influenced by advertisements? What measures can be taken to protect them?

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Nowadays, people need to deal with hundreds of advertisements from companies to retailers. In my view,
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can be harmful because it can encourage people to do a series of unnecessary consumption. In the modern world, advertisements have become an inseparable part of our life, and consumers could be influenced easily.
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, companies are always set up a series of promotions and shopping festivals to prompt people to consume.
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, ‘Black Friday’ in America, ‘Boxing Day’ in Canada, ‘ Double Eleven’ in China and so on. These promotion days usually come with a large percentage of discount, and that leads people to do a bunch of unnecessary purchase and over expenditure.
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, advertisements are usually misleading,
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as alcohol and tobacco advertising will show that their products are minor harmful to human’s body.
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, some toy’s TV commercials are focus on children with a vivid describe how fun
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toy is. After watched it, youngsters fill up with curiosity, and they will buy it without thinking. There are some methods that maybe can protect consumers.
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of all, the most important thing is built up an intelligent consumption concept,
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, when we go to the shops, and ask ourselves whether we really need that or not before we
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it.
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, the government is ought to restraint some misleading and harmful products’ advertisements
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as liquid and cigarettes.
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, parents should protect their children from avoiding too much exposure to advertising, and monitor on their pocket money. In conclusion,
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we can not escape from advertisements in the modern world, with some proper measures
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as built up a common shopping sense and children protection from their parents.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • advertising campaign
  • celebrity endorsement
  • psychological manipulation
  • emotional appeal
  • targeted advertisement
  • digital marketing
  • social proof
  • peer review
  • consumer trust
  • brand loyalty
  • misleading advertisement
  • government regulation
  • consumer protection
  • media literacy
  • ad-blocker
  • privacy settings
  • informed choice
  • critical thinking
  • marketing tactics
  • consumer awareness
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