Section: Logical Reasoning
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By refusing to ban smoking in restaurants, the city council has put the financial well-being of restaurant owners above the health of the citizens of this city. No doubt the council would support the restaurants if they decided to use asbestos tablecloths and to barbecue using radioactivity. These devices would be no more risky.
The author of this paragraph makes her case by arguing
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Explanation
The passage makes its point by analogy, comparing the dangers of smoking to the dangers of asbestos and radioactivity.
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