The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Risk Perception, and Choice

by Frank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor Jr., V. Kerry Smith

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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.

Older adults' decisions to quit smoking require personal experience with the serious health impacts associated with smoking. Smokers over fifty...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674010396

ISBN13:9780674010390

Release Date:June 2003

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.21 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"

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