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The Influence of Advertising - Paragraph 4: In a nutshell, advertising does influence people. Most of the advertisements are filled with images that equate emotional well-being with material acquisition and associate independence and leisure with the consumption of alcohol. Advertising also makes people lavish their effect on products rather than real people, thereby destroying human relationships. We have become trapped in the web of advertising where products like brands of beer and cigarettes take over our minds, doing away with our core family values. In paragraph 4, we read that “Most advertisements … associate independence and leisure with consumption of alcohol.” This suggests that advertisements mainly communicate the message that (inferencing):

independence and leisure encourage people to drink alcohol independence and leisure are always accompanied by alcohol consumption independence and leisure enable people to relax lack of independence and leisure makes it impossible for people to relax

Correct Answer:

independence and leisure encourage people to drink alcohol

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