请教Verbal review 60 Tobacco industry

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The tobacco industry is still profitable and projections are that it will remain so. In the United States this year, the total amount of tobacco sold by tobacco-farmers has increased, even though the number of adults who smoke has decreased.




Each of the following, if true, could explain the simultaneous increase in tobacco sales and decrease in the number of adults who smoke EXCEPT:




A. During this year, the number of women who have begun to smoke is greater than the number of men who have quit smoking


B. The number of teen-age children who have begun to smoke this year is greater than the number of adults who have quit smoking during the same period


C. During this year, the number of nonsmokers who have begun to use chewing tobacco or snuff is greater than the number of people who have quit smoking


D. The people who have continued to smoke consume more tobacco per person than they did in the past


E. More of the cigarettes made in the United States this year were exported to other countries than was the case last year.

别的倒没什么问题，就是关于E选项！
出口增加了的确增长了烟草销量，但并不代表国内的销量降低了啊。 也有可能是US觉得烟草profitable,大力生产烟草，国内的销量也增高了，同时，出口也增加了啊
晕~

bobotea

哦 这题选A~

francoisyang

A. 女人增多的数量大于男人减少的数量，那么成年人的总数应该增长，与原文不符；
E. 出口增加，即使国内烟民减少，烟草公司收入也增加。