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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19: Smooth Characters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is commissioned in 1962 and includes a very diverse group of doctors, chemists, and even a statistician?
(a) The Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health.
(b) The American Cancer Society.
(c) The TIRC.
(d) The American Medical Association.

2. How do two-thirds of the plug tobacco market end up in the hands of Buck Duke?
(a) R.J. Reynolds lets Duke take two-thirds stake in his company.
(b) Many other companies share the other one-third of the market.
(c) Duke has bought out the stakes of othe companies.
(d) Duke steals two-thirds of the stakes from R.J.Reynolds.

3. Why do some people see less toxic cigarettes as a middle ground?
(a) People can still smoke without getting cancer.
(b) To seriously assist with the public health, while not provoking the wrath of the powerful tobacco companies.
(c) Smokers reap weightloss benefits but do not get cancer.
(d) Smokers stay addicted, but there are fewer cases of cancer.

4. Why would some doctors refuse patients for surgery?
(a) If they had been a smoker.
(b) If they did not have insurance.
(c) If they refused to stop smoking.
(d) If they did not have enough money.

5. What gave Philip Morris pull over the cancer fighters' position?
(a) It contributions to doctors.
(b) Its contributions to the Sloan-Kettering Institute.
(c) The money it donates to various charities.
(d) Its blackmail tactics with doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Rose's lawyer work?

2. What does Liggett & Myers hope would happen to its new Lark cigarette?

3. What states that all potentially dangerous products could be scrutinized by comparing risk to benefit?

4. What happens when cigarettes are tested by CONSUMER REPORTS in 1953?

5. Enlistees could be _____________; they just had to be healthy at the start of the study.

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