One of the most unsettling recent public health trends has been rising tobacco use among teenagers. In 1991, 14 percent of eighth graders, 21 percent of tenth graders, and 28 percent of 12th graders smoked. By 1996, those percentages had risen to 21 percent of eighth graders, 30 percent of tenth graders, and 34 percent of twelfth graders.
What is most infuriating is that tobacco companies have geared their marketing toward children. Our nation was shocked several months ago to read about tobacco companies' documents detailing their plans to market their products to children. They showed that when industry officials marketed tobacco products to "young adults, they were referring to children as young as 13."
[And] their strategy worked. In the first four years that Camel ads featured the cartoon character Joe Camel, smokers under 18 who preferred Camels rose from less than 1 percent to as much as 30 percent of the market. Some studies even show that six-year-olds are as familiar with Joe Camel as they are with Mickey Mouse.
Which of the following best describes the writer's pattern of organization in the opening two paragraphs of the passage?
a) Building from simple description to complex examples
b) A thesis statement followed by supporting arguments
c) A detailed anecdote followed by a lesson
d) Statistical evidence followed by the main idea