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The Smoking Puzzle : Information, Risk Perception, and Choice
The Smoking Puzzle Information Risk Perception and Choice
Author: Frank A. Sloan, V. Kerry Smith, Donald H., Jr. Taylor
How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book challenges this conclusion. The authors find that smokers tend to be overly optimistic about their longevity and future health if they quit later in life. Smokers over fifty revise their risk perceptio...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674010390
ISBN-10: 0674010396
Publication Date: 6/15/2003
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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