Puffing in Advertising

Of course, some would argue that most advertising consists of puffing, and to some extent this is true. However, it is important to make the distinction that puffing is so exaggerated that no one takes it seriously; an actual misstatement of fact that people do find believable is not puffingùit is fraud. Puffing makes outlandish claims that no one takes seriously, such as ôthe best pipe tobacco in the world.ö Since no one can prove this claim, it is considered puffing. However, if the ad stated that ôFour out of five Americans watch this show on Monday nights,ö that is a claim that could be either substantiated or disproved by the Neilsen ratings (ôInside TV Ratingsö); if the ratings failed to substantiate the claim, the advertiser would lose the case in court.

When advertisers want to engage in aggressive marketing campaigns, they may be willing to make what are arguably false statements of fact, in the hope that consumers either would not know better or would not care to find out. However, should either a consumer or a competitor happen to challenge the statement by bringing suit, the advertiser would be forced to eithe

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s Fat Shorteningö (Raymond). On the other hand, new issues have been raised about the safety of Crisco, which is made of hydrogenated cottonseed oil. One of the most compelling is the revelation that cotton farmers spray a defoliant on cotton plants just before harvest to make harvesting easier; this spray has been linked withùat a minimumùstomach upsets (Forristal). Corrective advertising is defined as ôAdvertisements or messages within advertisements, that the Federal Trade Commission orders a company to run, for the purpose of correcting consumers' mistaken impressions created by prior advertisingö (ôCorrective Advertisingö). Corrective advertising is not an excessively harsh remedy for dealing with past deceptive advertising campaigns. The corrective advertising remedy is not intended to punish the company but to inform consumers about the true worth of a particular product. Since many consumers watch television but not all consumers read trade or consumer-oriented magazines, corrective advertising is simply the best way to inform the most consumers about the corrections. Naturally, companies that engage in deceptive advertising have a number of reasons that they would prefer not to run an ad on nationwide TV stating tha
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