The pernicious advertising of food that creates helath problems, but is immensely profitable, the relentless pushing of cheap and nasty alcohols (I could go on at length how eurofizz lager was sold to the British public during the 70s and 80s), not to create choice but, like some form of advertising NewSpeak, to actually restrict the ability of the consumer to choose anything else.
And they know this. The article points to the EU commissioners justification of their use of cars as natural and reasonable to underline that this is exactly what has already happened.
A ban of the ads and a tax on the use of the things. keep to the Fen Causeway
...or we could pursue the utopian dream of actually educating people to ignore advertising.