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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maxwell's tobacco control bill require?

2. What does Steinfeld's 1972 report also speak of for the first time?

3. In 1978, the AMA releases a long awaited report on tobacco which is considered what?

4. What physicist becomes one of the first scientists to document the levels of secondhand smoke and correlate them to incidences of lung cancer?

5. In the late 1980s, as the first formalized studies of ETS (second hand smoke) were being fomented, Philip Morris decides to head off any damage by doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the industry still have great influence in the 1970s?

2. Describe the beginning of the American Health Foundation.

3. Describe the study done by the ACS in 1967.

4. What does RJR's Tylee Wilson want to do to diversify RJR?

5. What is examined for the first time since the Great Depression?

6. To what do many in the anti-smoking movement turn?

7. What do studies in the early 1970s show?

8. How is the industry successful against grass roots efforts?

9. What does Hamish Maxwell do for Philip Morris?

10. What is the end result of the lawsuit regarding Rose Cipollone's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The tobacco industry had a path to choose in the early 1960s.

Part 1) Why did they have a path to choose? Which one did they choose? Why?

Part 2) How different might the industry be, if they had chosen a different path?

Part 3) Do you believe a safe cigarette could be made? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The tobacco industry was still influential in Washington in the 1970s.

Part 1) How was it influential? Why was it so influential? Why was it initially difficult for the tobacco industry to fight non-smokers' rights groups?

Part 2) Compare and contrast the efforts of both the tobacco industry and grass roots organizations?

Part 3) How does this power and influence of the tobacco industry continue today? Has it had to change tactics? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The American colonies were not conducive to the slave trade.

Part 1) Why were they not conducive to the slave trade? What role did Virginia play in the rise of slavery?

Part 2) Why were slaves important for the tobacco industry? Would slavery have been abolished sooner if the tobacco industry had never existed? Why or why not?

Part 3) What was needed to replace the use of slaves, yet keep costs down? What other technology has been created to replace laborers? How does this affect the laborer?

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