LSAT 152 | Section 4 | Logical Reasoning: Q3

LR Question 3 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Consumer: A new law requires all cigarette packaging to …

QUESTION TYPE: Sufficient Assumption

CONCLUSION: The law won’t affect the smoking habits of most regular smokers.

REASONING: Most regular smokers rarely look at the packaging when taking out a cigarette.

ANALYSIS: The law changes packaging. Smokers rarely look at packaging when taking out a cigarette. Therefore, the law won’t affect their behavior.

Can’t packaging affect behavior in other ways? For example through social pressure, displays in stores, conversations, or even when the package is just lying around in their apartment.

The argument is assuming that if smokers don’t look at the packaging when taking out a cigarette, it won’t affect their behavior.

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1. This is about whether regulations should be implemented. The argument is not about what should be done, but about what will happen. This is irrelevant.
2. This is about the opposite group of people: frequent exposure. The stimulus is about people who rarely look at the packaging.
3. This suggests smokers already know the risks. While that might be relevant in a broader discussion, it does not logically connect the premises to the conclusion. Even informed people can change behavior.
4. CORRECT. This states exactly the missing link: the packaging cannot affect smokers unless they look at it frequently. Since the argument tells us they do not look at it, this supports the conclusion.
5. This is about memory of logos, which is irrelevant to whether packaging influences behavior.