A corporation’s ethical responsibility in advertising is to inform and persuade consumer stakeholders in ways that are not deceitful. This does not always happen, as the tobacco, diet, and food industries, for example, have shown. There are ethical issues embedded in the practice of advertising. These ethical issues arise whenever corporations target ads in manipulative, untruthful, subliminal, and coercive ways to vulnerable buyers such as children and minorities. This discourse (legal) is based on the assumptions that advertising is worthwhile from an economic and social perspective; and that marketers have the right to persuade. On the other hand, there are ethical issues involving the essence of advertising, their appropriateness socially and economically, and their potentially harmful effects on individuals and on society at large. This discourse (moral) makes the distinction between “having a right” and “the right thing to do.” It is not based on the assumption that persuasion is a right that necessarily should be exercised by advertises. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act prohibits unfair or deceptive advertising in any medium.