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Which of the following represents the best reading of lines 6–9 ("A single...on alcohol")?


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Okay Ap england people More on coffee and drugs which

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of the following represents the best reading of line six

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through nine Let's go find him right there A single

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company starbuck sells more than a billion dollars for the

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gavi year Americans spend more in the fifty billion dollars

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every year and cigarettes and more than one hundred billion

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dollars on alcohol From a skimmed reading of numbers it

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seems the author's proving that alcohol is the most profitable

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legal drug However the author is trying to show how

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insanely profitable coffee is or at least how much revenue

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goes with coffee Starbucks alone has eight billion dollars in

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revenues which means that all the coffee providers combined would

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probably make it the most profitable legal drug in america

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Starbucks measly eight billion dollars in revenue is relatively less

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than other legal drugs But it's only one retailer a

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so you could get reveille there And then there's no

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mention of where coffee stands with the ranks in total

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like where'd that come from Good bye b The other

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doesn't address the markets for drugs until wait later in

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the passage and doesn't declare preferences at all Probably because

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he was hopped up on caffeine yet happens the best

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of us So the answer is though it seems americans

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spend more money on tobacco and alcohol The author is

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on ly including profits from one coffee retailer at least 00:01:16.547 --> [endTime] revenues from them and leases that's written

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