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BUSINESS AND ITS EXTERNAL EXCHANGES: ECOLOGY AND CONSUMERS

4. ''Advertising should be banned because it diminishes a consumer's freedom of choice." Discuss this claim. Review the materials available in your library and decide whether you agree that "criticisms of advertising based on its social effects are inconclusive." 5. Carefully examine two or more advertisements taken from current newspapers or magazines and assess the extent to which they meet what you would consider adequate ethical standards for advertising. Be prepared to defend your standards. 6. A manufacturer of electric coffee pots recalled the pots (through newspaper announcements) when he found that the handles would sometimes fall off without warning and the boiling contents would spill. Only 10 percent of the pots were returned. Does the manufacturer have any additional duties to those who did not return the pots? Explain your answer.

Web Resources

Readers wishing to conduct research on consumer issues through the Internet might begin by turning to the websites of the following organizations: The National Safety Council (bttp:!lw