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Tu quoque, specific kind of ad hominem argument, and useful concept. Example:

Alice: Smoking is associated with chronic health disorders. You shouldn’t smoke.
Bob: But you smoke yourself. So much for your argument!

Bob reasons that because Alice is being hypocritical, her statement about the effects of smoking must be false. But the truth of Alice’s claim has no connection to whether or not she is a hypocrite.

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