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Coca-cola was first marketed in the 1860s as a patent medicine, designed to offer the energy boost of cocaine without the vices of alcohol. the new beverage was invigorating and popular. today, however, cocaine is not just banned but widely demonized. this is an example of:

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This is an example of things that use to be mainstream (approved in society) now are frowned on. Coca-Cola use to be made with cocaine to help give someone the boost they need, as time passed research has shown the negative impacts and addiction cocaine can cause someone. Once this happened, cocaine was taken out of Coca-Cola and is frowned upon for use in soceity.

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This is an example of: mainstream culture once approving of behaviors that are now considered deviant.

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