It is illegal to advertise prescription medications in Delland except directly to doctors, either by mail or in medical journals. A proposed law would allow general advertising of prescription medications. Challenger objects that the general population lacks the specialized knowledge to assess such advertisements and might ask their doctors for inappropriate medications. But because doctors have the final say as to whether to prescribe a medication for a patient, inappropriate prescriptions would not become more common.
Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to evaluate the argument?
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AWhether advertising for prescription medications might alert patients to the existence of effective treatments for minor illnesses that they had previously thought to be untreatable
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BWhether some people might go to a physician for no reason other than to ask for a certain medication they have seen advertised
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CWhether the proposed law requires prescription-medication advertisements directed to the general public to provide the same information as do advertisements directed to doctors
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DWhether advertisements for prescription medications are currently an significantly source of information about newly available medications for doctors
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EWhether doctors would give in to a patient's demand for a prescription medication chosen by the patient when the one originally prescribed by the doctor fails to perform as desired
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正确答案: E