Sentence Correction

A decade after initiating the nation's most comprehensive and aggressive antismoking program, per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as in the nation as a whole.

B. annual per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs to about 60, more than twice as great as that
C. California's annual per capita consumption of cigarettes declined from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as the drop
D. California has seen per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs annually to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as that
E. California has seen annual per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as that

B or E

Even i am not sure about the idiom
that we can use 'that' after "as much as" or not

A&C uses redundant word 'drop'.

D looks wordy & awkward also has redundancy..

IMO:

a,b,c are wrong -- misplaced modifier

its either d or e

i'll go with d
for the same reason.

IMO D

E has a modifier problem "about 60, more than twice as great as that"

E -wrong 1) "per capita" and "125 per person" wordy
2) decline -wrong tense

I choose B

IMO D

OA: D

modifier error
d or E can correct this error
D is better than E when it express paralell in comparision a drop ... that

reachac wrote:IMO D

E has a modifier problem "about 60, more than twice as great as that"

what's the problem with E? please explain

I'm going E

I think it's "B"...

E is wrong because it uses "per capita" and "per person" in the same sentence, which is redundant.