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And here we see a covert malevolent government agent testing the limits of online social programming through repeated shaming, especially using paralogism.
It's worked for the election of Donald Trump, and to some small extent, even the alteration of sexual preferences towards transgender men (traps). If it can work to raise the profits of cigarette companies, they'll have better reason to trust in this method of social engineering.
They're getting better at it, though of course, their subjects knowing about it tends to dampen their results.