Cigarette companies claim that manufacturing

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct71% picked this

   Blood cannot absorb more nicotine per day than that found in the smoke from a package of

   Why this is right

   If blood can only absorb, say, 10mg of nicotine, and a pack of low-nicotine cigarettes provides at least that much, then it doesn't matter whether a pack of high-nicotine cigarettes has 25mg of nicotine in it. A person who smokes a pack of either type will still only have 10mg of nicotine in their blood.

   Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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2. B

   Unrelated to Goal20% picked this

   Smokers of the lowest-nicotine cigarettes available generally smoke more cigarettes per day than smokers

   This paradox is comparing people who smoke one pack of low-nicotine to people who smoke one pack of high-nicotine. The typical consumption amount of low-nicotine smokers vs. high-nicotine smokers is irrelevant. This paradox is constructed on a comparison between people smoking the same amount of cigarettes.

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3. C

   No Impact7% picked this

   Most nicotine is absorbed into the blood of a smoker even if it is delivered

   This lets us know that when you smoke low-nicotine cigarettes, your blood absorbs most of the nicotine. So if a pack of low nicotine cigs contains 10mg and a pack of high nicotine cigs contains 25mg, we know that the person smoking the low-nicotine will absorb at least 6mg in their blood. But wouldn't the person smoking high nicotine absorb much more than that? This answer provides no way of explaining why both smokers end up with the same level of nicotine in their blood.

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4. D

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   The level of tar in cigarettes is higher in low-nicotine cigarettes than it is in

   We're only concerned with how much nicotine is in each type of smoker's blood. The level of tar doesn't have any clear connection to this conversation.

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5. E

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   When taking in nicotine by smoking cigarettes is discontinued, the level of nicotine in the

   This is telling us that once you stop smoking, the level of nicotine in your blood will recede. But that has nothing to do with our paradox about someone smoking a pack of low-nicotine vs. someone smoking a pack of high-nicotine.

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