Question 40: Which of the following best summarises the passage? A. The rise of tobacco promotion in the metaverse highlights an inevitable...

Question 40: Which of the following best summarises the passage?

A. The rise of tobacco promotion in the metaverse highlights an inevitable conflict between technological innovation and public health regulation, posing a complex new challenge for existing legal frameworks on advertising.
B. The infiltration of the metaverse by tobacco firms is a problem of platform design that allows for subtle marketing, suggesting the regulatory challenge is to mandate specific new user safety and verification features.
C. Tobacco companies employ the unregulated metaverse to normalize smoking among youth, which is made harmful by combining digital engagement strategies with addiction marketing, posing an urgent regulatory challenge.
D. The metaverse is providing a novel frontier for tobacco marketing due to its lack of regulation, where young users are more vulnerable because they are less able to distinguish advertising from organic social interaction.