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Smoking : risk, perception & policy / Paul Slovic, editor.

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  1. Smoking : risk, perception & policy / Paul Slovic, editor.
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  1. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2001.

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Additional authors
  1. Hanson, Jon D.
  2. Slovic, Paul, 1938-
Description
  1. xiii, 378 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. From the publisher: This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of risk associated with smoking. The authors agree that young smokers give little or no thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The survey data contradicts the model of informed, rational choice and underscores the need for aggressive policies to counter tobacco firms' marketing and promotional efforts and to restrict youth access to tobacco.
Alternative title
  1. Smoking : risk, perception, and policy
Subject
  1. Advertising > methods
  2. Attitude to Health
  3. Cigarette smokers > Attitudes
  4. Cigarette smokers > Health risk assessment
  5. Health Policy
  6. Nicotine > Health aspects
  7. Nicotine > pharmacology
  8. Risk perception
  9. Risk-Taking
  10. Smoking > Government policy
  11. Smoking > Health aspects
  12. Smoking > adverse effects
Contents
  1. Introduction. The risks of active and passive smoking / Jonathan M. Samet -- A profile of smokers and smoking / Patrick Jamieson and Daniel Romer. Perceptions of risk by adolescents and adults. What do young people think they know about the risks of smoking? / Patrick Jamieson and Daniel Romer -- The role of perceived risk in starting and stopping smoking / Daniel Romer and Patrick Jamieson -- Smokers' recognition of their vulnerability to harm / Neil D. Weinstein -- Cigarette smokers : rational actors or rational fools? / Paul Slovic. Media influence on smoking. Advertising, smoker imagery, and the diffusion of smoking behavior / Daniel Romer and Patrick Jamieson.
  2. Addiction. The nature of nicotine addiction / Neal L. Benowitz -- A visceral account of addiction / George Loewenstein -- The Catch-22 of smoking and quitting / Daniel Romer, Patrick Jamieson, and R. Kirkland Ahern. Legal and policy perspectives. The joint failure of economic theory and legal regulation / Jon D. Hanson and Douglas A. Kysar -- Tobacco and public health policy : a youth-centered approach / Richard J. Bonnie.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-376) and index.
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