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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do magazines describe?
(a) The risk of inhaling tobacco versus non-inhaling.
(b) The various types of cigarettes on the market.
(c) The health benefits of smoking.
(d) The popularity of cigarette smoking.

2. What custom becomes very common in the United States throughout the 1800s?
(a) Smoking cigarettes.
(b) Anti-smoking campaigns.
(c) Spitting the dark juice.
(d) Selling cigars.

3. What acts to tear down many taboos against women smoking, especially in public?
(a) The federal government.
(b) The civil right's movement.
(c) Young, married women.
(d) The women's suffrage movement.

4. What is Chesterfield's advertisement for mild cigarettes?
(a) "So mild, you don't even know you're smoking."
(b) "No smoking here."
(c) "Need a break? Try a cigarette."
(d) "Not a cough in the carload."

5. What is Congress still unwilling to do?
(a) Lessen the requirements of cigarette companies.
(b) Listen to the cigarette companies.
(c) Take on the cigarette industry.
(d) Stop pressuring the cigarette industry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What began by being manufactured mainly in Spain but quickly spread to its colonies and conquests?

2. With cigarette sales continuing to rise, despite the warning labels, what does The Federal Communications Commission do?

3. What does a 1953 study by Dr. Ernst Wydner show?

4. Why do farmers have to accept American Tobacco Company's prices?

5. What new brand does Philip Morris introduce that is directed primarily at women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to R.J. Reynolds under Clay Williams?

2. How do Percival Hill and his son George help American Tobacco Company?

3. What do Joe Cullman Jr. and his son do for Benson & Hedges?

4. How are fears allayed in the 1950s?

5. What is the cause for the control of large businesses?

6. What does RJR do after James Gray's death?

7. How was smoking viewed during World War II?

8. What does the Roosevelt Administration look into regarding the tobacco industry? How does this affect the various companies?

9. Why is it difficult to make a decision on the smoking industry?

10. What does Brown and Williamson's Senior Vice President want to do? What are the results?

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