Smoking Risk Perception Policy Slovic Paul 1938 by Slovic, Paul, 1938- instant download after payment.

1 online resource (xiii, 378 pages :) :, The basis for this study are two extensive telephone surveys (designed by Slovic and the other contributors to this volume) that were conducted between 1999- 2000, recording the responses of over 4000 people, Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-376) and index, 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, 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, Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002, digitized 2010