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Logical Fallacies In A 1950s Ad For Chesterfield Cigarettes

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The article will focus on different kinds of logical fallacies, which includes: appeal to vanity, suppressed evidence, begging the question, and false cause. First, appeal to vanity is a form of the indirect approach, and it often involves linking the love, admiration, or approval of the crowd with some famous figure who is loved, admired, or approved of. For instance, the writer notes” Here, actor and future U.S. President Ronald Reagan is seen in a 1950s ad for Chesterfield cigarettes. Jazz legend Louis Armstrong appears in an advertisement for Camel cigarettes. Ground-breaking baseball player Jackie Robinson endorses Chesterfield cigarettes in this 1940s advertisement. Baseball players Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Jensen, …show more content…

In suppressed evidence, the premises ought not to ignore some important piece of evidence that outweighs the presented evidence and entails a very different conclusion. For instance; “Now this ad might not raise any eyebrows on its own, but Larry appears in a second ad for spicy chicken batter... Larry poses beside a plate of chicken nuggets and fries, and says, "You gotta try it!" the ads fails to state that the fun does not come packaged with the chicken but must be supplied by the buyer. Also, of course, the ad fails to state that the chicken nuggets and fries is loaded with fat and that the buyer’s subsequently gains weight, which causes chronic disease and shortened life spans. By ignoring these facts, the argument based on the ad is fallacious. Lastly, the author claims, “As a full-time pediatric emergency room doctor, the effects of childhood obesity are increasingly obvious in the work I do. More and more, I am seeing children, often toddlers, who are already obese and may be plagued by chronic disease and shortened life spans.” The author failed to mention that low-income family, may have caused obese to the child because the family do not have sufficient amount of money to buy healthy food. Also, other factors that may cause lead to the child obesity or chronic disease could be genetic disease that may have caused the child to gain weight. In addition, bullying, racial discrimination, or bodying shaming, may have lead the child to depression, which lead to obesity. Hence, there are many factors that the writer ignored, that lead to fallacious

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