I am incapable of understanding some happening. (Coke is bad for you. Coke sells well) I shall therefore apply conspirationalization to it, thereby finding an explanation for it. (Ergo, Coke is controlling the public using mass media to sell massive quatities of unhealthy products). Instead of looking for other reasons why a coke drinker might drink coke (I think it's delicious, and I don't gain weight from it due to a slow metabolism, just as an example), you're assuming mind control. I'm unsure whether you hypothesis would hold up to occam's razor because I don't think that's the nearest explanation.
Note: This is directed towards everyone who assumes coke brainwashed us into soda consumption, so I started generalizing a little
If Ford had a $2.5billion[1] advertising program encouraging people to take part in street racing then yes, I might well hold them partly responsible for street racing deaths.
Especially if the budget for public health education is tiny.
They've certainly spent plenty of money sponsoring racing games, racing events, and various other racing related things. The connection between cars and going dangerously fast is not something the automotive industry had nothing to do with.
If you can't control yourself after seeing "These CGI polar bears and this multi-ethnic group of skater kids both like our soda", then that is entirely on you. (Well, on you, or perhaps on your parents who clearly failed to raise you properly.) For anything short of "More doctors smoke camels", I really cannot place blame on companies for advertising. I see no evidence of such deliberate deception in modern soda advertisement.
