5. Suppose that a number of new television series romanticizing life in the 1940's stimulates the appeal of cigarette smoking for teenagers. At the same time, suppose that new tobacco sales taxes dramatically raise the costs of bringing cigarettes to market. Using conventional supply and demand analysis, one would expect the combined effect of these changes on the cigarette market to be: a. b. C. d. an increase in equilibrium price, with the change in equilibrium quantity uncertain a decrease in equilibrium price, with the change in equilibrium quantity uncertain. an increase in equilibrium quantity, with the change in equilibrium price uncertain. a decrease in equilibrium quantity, with the change in equilibrium price uncertain.

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