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luring helpless children to self destructive habits.
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A contemporary case again is tobacco.
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This Joe Camel ad,
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you're probably shockingly a little
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too young to remember any of this,
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but there was huge fuss in the tobacco days around Joe Camel
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who was this sort of glorious icon,
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a sort of cool, some 1990s version of cool,
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who went from this kind of icon once tobacco began de-demonize to
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a very different kind of figure, from Joe Camel to Joe Chemo.
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These charges let me note again,
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can be accurate, they can be wildly exaggerated,