As an adolescence growing up in the 60s many companies used subliminal advertising to attract adolescents to cigarettes' and alcohol.
Sexual innuendos were also big. The one I remember most was the Swedish girl in the Noxzema Commercial slowly saying "Take it off, Take it all off."
It's just not adolescents adults are affected too but the companies involved today want the younger audience so they have many years to change their thoughts and cultural thinking. This is dangerous and it needs to be stooped by strict regulation world wide.