How Are Health Warnings on Cigarettes an Example of Bureaucracies

question 60

Multiple Choice

How are health warnings on cigarettes an example of bureaucracies having more power than Congress in some cases?

• A)Congress needed the approval of both the Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health and the surgeon general before requiring cigarette manufacturers to print health warnings.
• B)The Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health worked in tandem with the surgeon general to petition for cigarette manufacturers to print health warning, eventually forcing manufacturers to comply.
• C)The Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health and the surgeon general used data indicating that cigarettes increased lung cancer to put pressure on Congress, which eventually forced manufacturers to print warnings.
• D)Congress did not have the power to require cigarette manufacturers to print health warning on their label, but the Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health and the surgeon general did.

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Definitions:

Opportunity Cost

The cost of choosing one option over another, typically the best alternative forgone as a result of making a decision.

Efficient

Efficiency refers to the optimal production and distribution of resources in a way that best meets the needs and desires of consumers.

Scarce Resources

Natural, human, and capital resources that are limited in supply and can be used for the production of goods and services.

Bowed Outward

Refers to the shape of a production possibility frontier that indicates increasing opportunity costs for producing two goods.