We also considered the question of whether stronger workplace smoking legislation was associated with less emphasis on ideological arguments, relative to other coded arguments.
The tobacco industry did in fact focus on these kinds of arguments in its efforts to prevent workplace smoking regulation[ 46] Our second hypothesis is that the use of ideological arguments, relative to other kinds of arguments, is related to the strength of legislation.
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The argument against relative identity works by arguing that, if one allowed relative identity, a contradiction would follow, namely that one would get a situation in which a is G, a = b and b is not G.
(Important exceptions to this egalitarian tendency to broaden the relevant set of constraints are Waldron (1993) and Cohen (2011), who demonstrate, for the sake of argument, that relative poverty is in fact empirically inseparable from, and indeed proportional to, the imposition of physical barriers by other agents).
The coefficient estimates of Model 4 and Model 5 in Table 2 and Table 3 provide a more convincing argument that Relative GDP per capita is an appropriate indicator of human capital quality.
This domination notwithstanding however, our results support the argument that, relative to their impact on society, 4 of these cancers - breast, prostate, lung and intestinal - are actually underrepresented, with research interest in many of the rarer malignancies disproportionately greater.
This is a particularly novel finding and provides further support for the argument that, relative to continuing smokers, recent ex-smokers do not burden our health-care services.
This means that they differ on which subset of the set of arguments is the set of valid arguments (even relative to some translation scheme).
Our analysis compares the number of participants, the share of ideological arguments as a percentage of all the types of arguments coded (relative to scientific, economic, and political claims), and the nature of ideological arguments to the eventual strength of legislation passed in each state.
