INSTRUCTIONS: Identify the form of each argument. Those without a specific name are invalid. Either tobacco advertising will not be curtailed or teenage smoking will increase. Therefore, teenage smoking will increase, since tobacco advertising will be curtailed
A) Modus tollens.
B) Modus ponens.
C) Disjunctive syllogism.
D) Invalid.
E) Denying the antecedent.
C
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