Reading Comprehension (RC) | In 1977, an international tobacco industry trade group, including repr

[align=justify][box_out][box_in] In 1977, an international tobacco industry trade group, including representatives of all major cigarette companies, noted in a document on the social acceptability of smoking that “cigarette smoking is becoming a downscale social activity.” As the disease effects of smoking became better understood, more affluent and educated people were the most likely to quit. Cigarette companies thus increasingly marketed toward lower-income, less educated, and minority segments of the U.S.
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