According to a Survey Gauging People's Reactions to Scientific Evidence

question 34

Multiple Choice

According to a survey gauging people's reactions to scientific evidence that smoking cigarettes causes cancer:

• A) smokers who were planning to quit believed the report even more than nonsmokers did
• B) smokers believed the report, but nonsmokers rejected it
• C) smokers were far less likely to believe the report than nonsmokers were
• D) smokers were likely to believe the report but still refused to quit smoking.

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