Advertising Works Because People are Ignorant
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.
Notes:
...and, worst of all, their ignorance has to do mostly with their own health.
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The Great American Fraud: Articles On the Nostrum Evil and Quacks, in Two Series, Reprinted from Collier'S Weekly