The fewer restrictions there are on the advertising of biohazardous waste removal services, the more companies there are who advertise their services, and the companies that advertise a specific removal service usually charge less for that service than companies that do not advertise. Therefore, if the state removes any of its current restrictions, such as the one against advertisements that do not specify liability arrangements, overall consumer biohazardous waste removal costs will be lower than if the state retains its current restrictions.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument concerning overall consumer waste removal costs?


(A) The state has recently removed some other restrictions that had limited the advertising of waste removal services.

(B) The state is unlikely to remove all of the restrictions that apply solely to the advertising of waste removal services.

(C) Waste removal companies that do not advertise generally provide waste removal services of the same quality as those provided by companies that advertise.

(D) Most waste removal companies who now specify liability arrangements in their advertisements would continue to do so even if the specification were not required.

(E) Most waste removal companies that advertise specific services do not lower their fees for those services when they begin to advertise.