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From: gast@maui.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,alt.activism,talk.environment,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Advertising is bad
Keywords: DMA Suppression junk-mail recycling activism
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Date: 15 Feb 91 03:47:19 GMT
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In article <oo81w4w163w@cellar.UUCP> toad@cellar.UUCP (Tony Shepps) writes:

>  "Lack of advertising leaves a weird hole in the urban landscape.  You 
>think, 'What could be uglier than billboards?'  But have you ever looked 
>behind them?  In Communist countries you don't get to see the giant pictures 
>of the cars, boats, and pretty faces that fill people's dreams.  You just see 
>the people and where they live."

You get to see big pictures of the leaders, advertising for the communist
party.  And anyway most of the billboards around here have ads for tobacco
products, liquor, and the like.  There is the one that posts the number
of Americans killed by smoking this year.  Almost 400,000 per year.

David Gast