'Badvertising': Is the public increasingly turned off by dirty ads?

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A recent spoof HSBC ad campaign took aim at the bank's net zero strategy / Credit: Matt Bonner
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A recent spoof HSBC ad campaign took aim at the bank's net zero strategy / Credit: Matt Bonner

New survey suggests over two thirds of adults would happily see adverts for environmentally harmful products restricted and possibly even banned

At what point is a product so dangerous it has to be banned? Outside of the dreams of the most absolutist libertarian there is a broad consensus that such a point exists. And where it is deemed to fall...

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