help me!!这题我觉得没有正确答案的。。

orchid347

Banning cigarette advertisements in the mass media will not reduce the number of young people who smoke. They know that cigarettes exist and they know how to get them. They do not need the advertisements to supply that information.
The above argument would be most weakened if which of the following were true?

(A) Seeing or hearing an advertisement for a product tends to increase people’s desire for that product.
(B) Banning cigarette advertisements in the mass media will cause an increase in advertisements in places where cigarettes are sold.
(C) Advertisements in the mass media have been an exceedingly large part of the expenditures of the tobacco companies.
(D) Those who oppose cigarette use have advertised against it in the mass media ever since cigarettes were found to be harmful.
(E) Older people tend to be less influenced by mass-media advertisements than younger people tend to be.

我总感觉AC加在一起是正确答案。。
答案是A，这里的product是指戒烟这件事么？看着好费解呀
多谢各位解答啊

sanlingjie

I vote for A. Here, the Product refers to any merchandise like cigarettes. In the above CR question, the conclusion is: Banning cigarette advertisements in the mass media will not reduce the number of young people who smoke. the premise is: They know that cigarettes exist and they know how to get them. They do not need the advertisements to supply that information.When we get a Weaken-type Question, we have to: 1. find other stimulus, 2 prove the premise's failure in resulting in the conclusion, 3. prove the conclusion's failure in resulting from the premise, 4. or prove that the materials that express the causual relationship are false. In this CR, the author means that the function of the advertisment is to and only to provide information on accessing to the existing cigarettes, however, Key A provides another function of the advertisment: increase people’s desire for that product. In other words, Key A means that if the people do not get in touch with the said advertisement, they could smoke less even they know that cigarettes exist and they know how to get them. Therefore, A weakens the conclusion.
For Key C, it has nothing to do with the proportion of advertisements in the mass media in the expenditures of the tobacco companies.