According to revealed preference a consumer that chooses to smoke cigarettes:

A. is minimizing their utility given the options available to them.
B. derives more happiness from smoking than the goods they could have purchased with that same money.
C. derives more utility from smoking than the goods they could have purchased with that same money.
D. is behaving irrationally.


Answer: C

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