Limiting Ads Targeting Children

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We are being pushed to question ourselves. Should we keep the obscene amount of ads going in the U.S, and hope that we can inform the more easily influenced minds of our community not to blindy listen? Or should ban them so that we dont have to run into that problem in the first place? I think limiting ads targeting children is the answer. I understand that advertising does play an important role in our economy. Restaurants, grocery stores, etc, make ads to persuade people to buy their product. It says right in the second passage that advertisements are "attempts to sell a product." Money is the sought-after goal. However, we need to implement more ways to raise funds without doing it in an unethical way. I remember watching

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