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tributed in the United States to carry a health warning, and since 1970
this warning is made in the name of the Surgeon General. In 1969,
cigarette advertising on television and radio was banned, effective Sep-
tember 1970.
196.
The primary purpose of the passage is to
a. show the mounting evidence of the deleterious health conse-
quences of smoking.
b. explain why the Kennedy administration called for a national
commission on smoking.
c. describe the government’s role in protecting public health.
d. show the significance of the 1964 Surgeon General’s report.
e. account for the emergence of anti-smoking movements in
twentieth-century United States.
197.
In line 1, preoccupied most nearly means
a. distressed.
b. beset.
c. absorbed.
d. inconvenienced.
e. fomented.
198.
The first sentence of the second paragraph (lines 6–9) is intended
to express the
a. long-standing controversy about the effects of smoking.
b. current consensus of the medical community regarding 
smoking.
c. government’s interest in improving public health.
d. ongoing colloquy between physicians, scientists, and 
governments.
e. causal relationship between smoking and lung disease.
199.
The author implies that the impulse (line 27) to create a
government report on smoking
a. was an overdue response to public demand.
b. would not have been pursued if John F. Kennedy was not 
president.
c. came from within the U.S. Public Health Service.