Question ID:PT8 S1 Q3 Passage:Sheila: Health experts generally agree that smoking a tobacco product for many years is very likely to be harmful to the smoker’s health. Tim: On the contrary, smoking has no effect on health at all: although my grandfather smoked three cigars a day from the age of fourteen, he died at age ninety-six. Stem:A major weakness of Tim’s counterargument is that his counterargument Correct Answer Choice:AChoice A:attempts to refute a probabilistic conclusion by claiming the existence of a single counterexample Choice B:challenges expert opinion on the basis of specific information unavailable to experts in the field Choice C:describes an individual case that is explicitly discounted as an exception to the experts’ conclusion Choice D:presupposes that longevity and health status are unrelated to each other in the general population Choice E:tacitly assumes that those health experts who are in agreement on this issue arrived at that agreement independently of one another