GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) | Since smoking-related illnesses are a serious health problem

This is a though one, firstit's not a strengthen question, rather an inference question. *
The addition of the "if true" simply means that we can consider the answers as additional premises which MUST MAKE SURE that the conclusion is bulletproof.

Analysis of the argument:
"The government of Normark plans to reduce the maximum allowable quantity of nicotine ".
"However it will probably cause people addicted to nicotine to smoke more cigarettes quot;.
@conclusion ->
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