Smoking and Lung Cancer

Question

The relationship of smoking and lung cancer have been firmly established, yet people continue to ignore warnings, jeopardizing their health and that of others. 

(A) The relationship of smoking and lung cancer have been firmly established, yet people continue to ignore warnings, jeopardizing their health and that of others.
(B) The relationship of smoking to lung cancer has been firmly established, yet people continue to ignore the warnings, jeopardizing their health and that of others.
(C) The relationship of smoking to lung cancer has been firmly established, yet people continually ignore the warnings which jeopardize their own health and that of others.
(D) The relationship between smoking and lung cancer has been firmly established, yet people continue to ignore warnings, jeopardizing their own health and that of others.
(E) The relationship of smoking with lung cancer has been firmly established, with people continuing to ignore the warnings and jeopardizing their own health and others. 

Please explain

jjhko · Answer

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I'm specifically looking for comments on the following areas:

- relationship of X to Y vs. relationship between X and Y
- their own health vs. their health

Thanks in advance!

jjhko

gmatornot · Answer

Is the answer not D ? 

"between" is needed when you are comparing two items...

GMATT73 · Answer

relationship between X and Y ~ is appropriate here because the two have conflicting ideas about the central issue: smoking. 

(D)

hisharma · Answer

"relationship between x and y" is the correct idiom .. so D .. but "jeopardizing their own health and that of others" .. is "own" really required here ... plz explain ... isn't it redundant ..

u2lover · Answer

D for me "relationship b/w X and Y" and "relationship HAS"

D also has a correct and clear modifier

jjhko · Answer

Ok, for this one... the OA is definitely not D (i double checked). I know, I was fooled by the between X and Y as well... :cry:

ak_idc · Answer

In that case, it should be B. 

relationship of "smoking" to "lung cancer"

AshikaP · Answer

thats very odd because when i look at some optinons on thefreedictionary.com it gives 

relationship of x with y

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relationship between x and y

Yurik79 · Answer

oops my choice was D

karlfurt · Answer

I dont see anything wrong with D

Yurik79 · Answer

https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... stablished good discussion here

jjhko · Answer

Sorry for the delay... here is the OA and the OE... from Cambridge.

Smoking and Lung Cancer

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