Society would benefit from a complete ban on all forms of advertisement. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Question:
Society would benefit from a complete ban on all forms of advertisement. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Answer Hints:
The reasonable option is to disagree with the statement. The reverse view is difficult to support.

Reasons not to ban
  • Ads have a history as long as markets; no one can ban them entirely.
  • Ads are the primary information flow for sellers to introduce goods.
  • Buyers also understand production and service by ads and decide purchase.
  • Ads may cost society resources and mislead consumers, but it helps increase the transparency of the market.
Benefit from a complete ban of ads
  • May decrease goods' cost and price.
  • Buyers won't be misled by fake information.
Answer 1
Concerns about the prevalence of advertisements and their effects have reached a fever pitch nowadays...

It appears entirely unreasonable to ban all genres of advertisements. Advocates of banning adverts may argue that advertisers employ manipulative techniques to provoke customers' desires to purchase products they do not need, making people waste their money ceaselessly...

On the contrary, I am firmly convinced that advertisements benefit society in several ways. The most obvious advantage is that many customers could gain insights into new products or services thanks to daily exposure to various advertisements...

In conclusion, I believe that advertising brings people enormous advantages, and thus, the suggestion of imposing a total prohibition on all forms of advertising should be neglected...
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Answer 2
There are many ways to stand out in products and services today, from digital devices to banners on streets and roads...

First, most people worldwide live in a capitalistic system, which determines free competition between companies regarding what they have to sell to the public...

Additionally, the advertisement industry generates lots of jobs, and sponsorship is quite joint in a wide variety of segments and is directly related to it...

On the other hand, plenty of corrupt-intentioned organizations try to mislead clients by showing only the right sides of products and overlooking failures...

Thus, I think all forms of advertisements should prevail not just for the free market and competition but also for preserving the institutions' rights to communicate and express opinions...
Band: 7
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Answer 3
Some people insist that advertising is entirely useless and believe that imposing a ban on it definitely brings benefits...

On the one hand, there are several reasons to believe that advertising negatively impacts our lives...

On the other hand, I believe that the prohibition of advertisements is not a sound initiative. From an economic perspective, the country's economy would suffer severely without commercials...

In conclusion, albeit harmful to the community somehow, advertising appears to have vital roles to a certain extent...
Band: 7
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Answer 4
Some people argue the government should not allow commercial product promotional activities on all media forms, from print to online...

For decades, public and private institutions have been using marketing as their prime means to promote and sell their product to the masses...

However, there are some demerits to this trend. Firstly, many of the adverts are so tempting that they encourage people to unthinkingly buy the products without considering they require the features offered by the product...

To conclude, after considering the points mentioned above, I think there is nothing wrong with promoting goods and facilities offered by an institution...
Band: 7
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Answer 5
There is no doubt that nowadays, advertisements play an indispensable role in boosting the sales of products...

To embark in this modern era, advertisement aids in knowing about new products launched by the company...

Additionally, advertisements are considered a tool of entertainment. This means that folks are busy with their hectic schedule; whenever they are free from work, they prefer to watch new ads as ads are directed in exciting ways, which helps reduce people's stress...

To sum up, although ads have a few detrimental effects as they encourage people to purchase things that are not necessary for them, they have a lot of benefits to people as they aid in keeping up to date with society...
Band: 6.5
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Answer 6
Some people claim that a complete restriction on all types of advertisements could be better for our society...

First of all, we live in an information era, and cutting-edge technologies have allowed customers to connect with their sellers in more accessible ways, such as on TV, on websites, and social media...

Moving on to the following reason, advertisements have existed for a long time, and the only thing that has changed is this...

In conclusion, some believe that banning advertising products will help society. However, promoting the products can not be stopped because of the access to the internet and long-existing advertisements in human history...
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