Critical Reasoning (CR) | Banning cigarette advertisements in the mass media will not reduce the

This is the quick solution I came up with:

Conc: Banning cigarette ads in the mass media will not reduce the number of young people who smoke, i.e., ads can't be used as a variable to control smoking.

(A) Seeing or hearing an advertisement for a product tends to increase people’s desire for that product. - This pretty much answers the question straight out of the gate. "Do ads or exposure to ads impact smoking tendencies in the population?" If the ads lead to higher desire for a product (which we already know how to obtain) then removing those same ads might reset the baseline for desire to lower level, a.k.a reduce desire and reduce smoking levels.Keep

(B) Banning cigarette advertisements in the mass media will cause an increase in advertisements in places where cigarettes aresold - This option pretty much says that removing ads will lead to more ads promoting cigarettes. However, we're already told that cigarette ads don't have an effect in the passage. The reasoning
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Statistics : Posted by stackskillz • on 22 Nov 2018, 09:24 • Replies 9 • Views 14267

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